Obama now says he would have left Trinity United if Rev. Wright had not retired and if did not apologize.
“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church,” Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, “The View.” The interview will be broadcast Friday.
This comment, like other Obamafications, does not say whether Obama himself is one of the “people” who were offended by Wright’s, er, “inappropriate” comments.
And why only now, after the eruption of controversy? Does Obama expect us to believe that he knew nothing for 20+ years of Wright rants that would offend “people”?
This belated, highly conditional statement that he “would have” left the church if… strikes me as a classic example of someone standing in a hole continuing with his digging.
