Friday, May 2, 2008

Hillary's perfect hindsight on Wright

Hillary has said several times that she would have left the church if she had heard the statements by Jeremiah Wright that have become so infamous.

But of course she is saying that with the benefit of hindsight. Obama has said that he hadn't heard his comments about "God damn America," etc., and didn't like them. In this latest instance, he denounced him. But none of the rest of us know what Obama's relationship with his pastor was like before this. The church has 8,000 members - I'm guessing Obama has not spent a lot of personal time with Jeremiah Wright. And what right does Hillary have to judge someone else's relationship with a church, which is a deeply personal one? It's a purely political move, which at this point is exactly what I expect.

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