The audacity of lying – Obama and the Wright stuff

After being a member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for more than 20 years, after having listened to audiotapes of Wright when at Harvard Law, having sought out Wright and his church when he moved to Chicago, Barack Obama has the audacity of something besides hope to tell this whopper:

“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church,” Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, “The View.” The interview will be broadcast Friday.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

I actually agree with a fair amount of Wright’s non-race driven, and non-AIDS, comments. Our foreign policy has brought a lot of our issues on ourselves. (That’s not to say we “deserved” anything.)

But, you can find those comments among certain libertarians, including ones not racist unlike Ron Paul, and you can find them among plenty of left-liberals like me.

I actually don’t see anything to apologize for there.

But, on some of the other stuff, it is offensive. And, no, Sen. Obama, this didn’t just come up overnight, and you know it. And, your tax returns show you made enough contributions to Trinity to be more than just an occasional, uninvolved member.

I guess, with polls showing a favorable take by the public on his speech last week, but a significant minority still having questions, Shtick Talk Express™ decided he hadn’t yet said enough on the issue.