Some Republicans, lacking the strong denunciative appetites of Pete King, don't think it's obligatory to attack Obama. Minister Mike Huckabee, interviewed on MSNBC, says, "Obama has handled this as well as anyone could."
And he also thinks people should give Wright a break:
"As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you — we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..."
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Other articles/bloggers question Obama's judgement for listening to Wright's sermons for 20 years (and taking his children to listen).
If even Huckabee can cut Wright some slack, why can't Obama be expected to?
If even Huckabee can see that Wright's statements may be lifted out of context, then why can't the rest of us?
The incredible irony is that by listening to words that no one should have to listen to, Obama speaks profound truths that every American should listen to (with their children)
This shows the folly of judging one man by the words of another.
Preachers have said the darndest things while getting support from past presidents -
"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," said Billy Graham, agreeing with Nixon's comments about Jews and their influence in American life.
Pat Robertson: "Just like what the German Nazis did to the Jews, so liberal Democrats are doing to evangelical Christians."
According to his son, when evangelical pioneer Francis Schaeffer "called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush Sr."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obamas-minister-committe_b_91774.html