Obama's pastor: God damn America
As angry religious rants go, this one isn’t especially remarkable. Every Sunday in America, in churches black and white, well-compensated Protestant clergy take to the stage to preach loathing for somebody — sometimes for Catholics, sometimes for Jews, always for gays and lesbians. Only rarely do we on the secular right even notice, and even more rarely do we comment. For us, it has become background noise.
Jeremiah Wright’s loathing for America is notable only because he’s pastor to Barack Obama, a man who aspires to govern America. If it’s fair to tar Hillary Clinton with Geraldine Ferraro’s soft-focus remarks, it’s surely fair to tar Barack Obama with his pastor’s acrimonious ones.