Ah. Religion. For all the benefits religious faith may bring, there are days when the recent best seller "God is not Great", an eloquently written atheistic take on religious faith, seems to come into its own. If you haven't seen any of the clips of Obama's pastor delivering his political take on whether or not God should bless America, the following will do just fine: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4443230.
Teflon won't do here. Obama's written response on his website is far more eloquent than his soft backpedaling about Wright being like an awkward relative that mouths off, but we all know that a video is worth 10 million words. If whispering Barack's middle name can be damaging to the susceptible ear, these video's will be a hot poker to the susceptible eye.
I'd love to hear some ideas for damage control. Step one, no one says it better than Barack on his own website, I'll be referring people to it whenever possible. Many of us that are present or former Catholics have experienced based knowledge that the actions and words of a pastor (e.g. divorce, birth control, sexual predation) do not reflect the convictions of the individual church goer. It is quite clear that Obama found solace and conviction in his particular church, many can empathize with the more positive aspects and social responisibility that his church did seem to have.
In the end, though, it will have to be Obama that either stumbles on Pastor Wright, or reveals his own strengths in a new way. Best now rather than in the middle of the presidential campaign with McCain that we all hope to see occur.
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