Then I guess Ron Paul is about as racist as Obama with his church affiliation with a pastor who for 20 years went on verified and taped questionably racist rants.
I don't agree.
First, despite all the hysteria about Jeremiah Wright, he was a pastor in the United Church of Christ (aka the Congregationalists), one of the most laid-back denominations out there. My (white, doctorate holding) parents both belong to a Congregationalist church, as did my father's parents, who were educated white people from Vermont. Moreover, Pastor Wright's comments, while controversial, were not racist - indeed they were anti-racist.
Second, and more critically, comments made by Pastor Wright were not made by President Obama himself, and he has not adopted any of Pastor Wright's controversial remarks. Dr. Paul's political newsletters, on the other hand, were published under his name, largely written in the first person, and contained no bylines, suggesting that he wrote them and, at best, making it unclear who wrote them. He personally made hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. When confronted about the newsletters, he initially defended them and merely asked that they be quoted in their entirety, and only later denied he had written them.
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