Christina’s Common Sense

There is a Spanish adage: “Show me the company you keep and I’ll show you who you are.” (I should be able to say that in Spanish, but I zoned out most of my last semester of it.) You’re not exempt from this because you’re running for President, as Barack Obama is about to find out.

Lately lately some of Obama’s pastor’s remarks have made their way into headline news, as such things are wont to do during election season. Turns out that Rev. Jeremiah Wright has a history of preaching anti-American sermons, notably calling for black people to not sing “God Bless America” but “God Damn America.”

Obama is not responsible for his pastor’s words. But he is responsible for where he attends church. He’s attended this church faithfully for two decades. He and his wife were married there, their children were baptized there, and I’d say it’s a fair bet he’s heard many of this pastor’s sermons. Yet he still continues to go there every Sunday.

How is it that Pres. Bush is a religious nut for attending a mainstream Protestant church, but when Barack Obama sits under a pastor that preaches an anti-American message it’s no big deal? Obama wants to hold the highest office in the nation. Shouldn’t we wonder why he takes spiritual advice from someone who calls America the most evil nation in the world?

I think we should. But if Obama’s legion of followers are any indication, I seem to be in the minority.