JOLLY DAYS

Obama's Pastor

When claims of purity fail the explanations fall on hard ears. Obama has based his campaign on the fragile premise of simple answers to complicated questions: “Let's all just talk”; sounds convivial, until you consider some of the interlocutors he would be enabling.

Now Obama claims he has no knowledge of who his pastor is. He was just an aw-shucks “dotty uncle” who married him, gave him spiritual counseling, and a slogan for his campaign. But what this dotty pastor believed, his root level, histrionic contempt, that was invisible to Obama? It apparently wasn't invisible to the smiling congregants at this posted rant . Why is Obama distancing himself now and not long ago?