It is interesting to see ijusluvit's comments. "For the period when the President attended Wright's church, it was mainstream and uncontroversial, until Wright realized he had a national audience. It's all well documented that his change to extreme, off-the-wall statements was a sudden and strictly personal choice about which the President had no control."


Seriously, I've wondered how people really (really) justified Obama's association with Wright. in light of the fact that Obama sat in Wright's church for more than 20 years, met with him in a personal manner, considered him a mentor, Wright was a member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee who helped get him the Democratic nomination, Obama called him "an old uncle," quoted him in one of his memoirs, et al.

If I had a close friend, let alone a pastor, who has such a sudden, radical turn in personality; at the very least I'd be looking into an intervention or begging them to see a doctor.