Obama: "I'm Not Vetting My Pastor"
One question that the Wright controversy has raised is this: Did Obama see it coming?
Was the Obama campaign aware, or prepared for the eventuality, that such incendiary comments would be surfacing? Should it have been?
In an interview to air tomorrow on ABC, Obama addressed this in a strikingly straightforward way:
"I'm not vetting my pastor," Obama told "The View." "I didn't have a research team during the course of 20 years to go pull every sermon he's given and see if there's something offensive that he's said."
Obama may not be willing to do this, but you can bet that the Republicans are already doing it quite diligently, thank you very much.
To be clear, that's not a criticism of Obama. Presuming this is true, it's another sign that he's just not willing to approach this problem in a conventional political fashion, and is willing to accept the liabilities that accompany this decision -- or is perhaps confident that he can talk his way out of them.
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