Truest statement of the week III

But this woman's principal stated concern about Obama involves the politics of Reverend Wright -- politics she assumes Obama must share in some sense. Sedar didn't pursue this statement, preferring to pretend that he has trapped the woman in a foolish self-contradiction. (He hadn't, at least to judge from the tape.) But might we make an obvious point? In an endless series of clips in 2008, Reverend Wright was shown making certain statements which are very unusual by the standards of mainstream American politics. Obvious fact: If some major Republican figure had spent twenty years in a church whose pastor held similarly unconventional views, we liberals would never stop talking about it.

-- Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler.