can recall with the simplest nostalgia that her two brothers regularly trekked over the BU bridge to Brookline in order to avoid their local Parish Priest's weekly fulminations on behalf of Generalissimo Franco and his simple Luftwaffe-backed piety.
Elias Nugator Senior can recall that Boston Common regularly featured the soapbox antisemitism of Monsignor Feeney; Boston College's most notorious clerical fascist.
I myself used to while the way the hours out in the pews while some half senile madman raved about abortion and lesbians and feminists and....
My point is, if you are regular church goer in America, you've probably heard some pretty hair-raising nonsense from out the gob of your official religious celebrant. So it comes as no surprise to me that Citizen Obama has had to listen to some bad craziness in his church...quite frankly so have we all. It's an axiom with Humble Elias that the only class in America more rhetorically rampant than the punditariat is the clergy...and the clergy has been like that since Washington took the Oath of Office.
But of course, in Jeff Jacoby's mind, Barack Obama is somehow responsible in a character deficient way for the opinions of another man.
Well I dunno, McCain got a pass on Hagee, so I'd think that Obama would get a pass on Wright.
But then again this is America and we do have an enduring love affair with the double standard.
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