16 March 2008

On Jeremiah

All of this talk about Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's pastor, is a bit ridiculous! I mean, why didn't we look into sermons delivered by the former Republican candidate Mike Huckabee? He was a baptist minister in his previous life and, based on comments he made on the campaign trial, I'm sure some of his speeches from the pulpit would make your skin crawl. And why didn't the press question Mitt Romney about his funny little underwear?

I absolutely abhor the religious bar candidates have to meet in order to have the slightest of chances at the presidency. The private religious views of candidates has no place in the public forum. But if voters and the media are going to hold one candidate up to one standard, then the rest of the field should be held to the same standard.

As far as I'm concerned, this is a non-issue.