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Paul Ibrahim

Barack Obama Digs Himself Deeper In the Jeremiah Wright Scandal

It is a very difficult time to be an honest, patriotic Democratic voter these days – the choices of presidential nominee for such voters are getting worse by the day.

On the one hand, there is Hillary Clinton, whose, well, creativity with the truth is being exposed more and more through such stories as the Bosnia non-adventure and the revelation that she had been fired from a job 34 years ago for being a “liar.” (Is this job included in “her 35 years of experience”?)

On the other hand, there is Barack Obama, who refuses to disown an America-hating bigot who served as his pastor, spiritual guide and family shepherd for 20 years.

What is surprising is that, whereas Clinton does suffer heavily (both in the opinion polls and at the actual polls) for her behavior, Obama has only seen a moderate dent in his numbers among Democratic voters since the Wright controversy finally made it into the mainstream media.

Although anyone who has turned on a television or logged on to the internet in the past few weeks should know about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, here is a very quick review: Wright is the pastor of a congregation that describes itself as committed to “Africa,” allegiant “to all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System,” and disavowing of the “Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness.’”