In the speech, Obama said:

“I can no more disown him (Rev. Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”

Equating white grandma who said some things in private with a racist, anti-American preacher who espoused some extreme left-wing views to the public and had DVDs made of them. And to a radio interviewer, he said:

“She is extremely proud, and the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way. … That’s the nature of race in our society … and we have to break through it. And what makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling a little less like that, and that’s pretty powerful stuff.”

So, typical white people are racist. I would resent that if I were a typical white person. And he expects typical white people to vote for him? I guess if you don’t you’re racist. Or it is a typical thing to utter racial epithets. Unintentionally, without thought. But sermons aren’t without thought so that comparison with the pastor doesn’t wash.

I’m trying to decide which article expressed my feelings better, the one by Joseph Farah, where I got the above quotes, or the one by Barbara Simpson. Both are good. She brings up some very important questions, those being.

What would he do as president? How would he change things? What kind of judgment would he have in his appointments, legislative support, judicial appointments and foreign affairs dealings?

Where would his sympathies lie?

I wonder the same thing.