Obama Apparently Agrees with His Pastor

So apparently when Barack Obama was in church sometime within the last few months, he was nodding in agreemment with his pastor, the controversial Jeremiah Wright, about some other anti-American, race-baiting statements.
An article from Newsmax, dated August 9, 2007 says Obama was not only present when these comments were made (seeing that the reporter, Jim Davis was actually sitting right beside Obama and his family at the time) but allegedly agreed with Wright's tirade whole-heartedly.
There's also some quotes from Obama about Wright from the New York Times, indicating that he did indeed know about past comments and, again, has some 'splainin' to do.

Obama's camp and one supporter in particular has the Illinois senator's back and says Newsmax has it completely wrong.

Newsmax's defense?

Remember, Wright is a man who has a personal connection with the militant racist, Louis Farrakhan and has condemned the United States, apparently, for the last 20 years at the minimum. It's about character, plain and simple. Just because someone writes about the indiscretions of a public figure, personal or otherwise, does not mean it is not a personal attack; it's informing the public about the persona of that figure that the public has the right to know about before they pull the lever (so to speak) to put this person in power. Power that can have a profound affect on our lives.

Thomas Sowell wrote in his latest column,
"In reality, character matters enormously, more so than most things that can be seen, measured or documented.
Character is what we have to depend on when we entrust power over ourselves, our children and our society to government officials.
We cannot risk all that for the sake of the fashionable affectation of being more non-judgmental than thou."

This was a follow-up to the scandal of New York governor, Eliot Spitzer and the outing of the fact that he is a power-hungry, unscrupulous , unprincipled scumbag.
But, it can be applied to Obama's situation quite readily. Now, I'm not saying Barack Obama is a scumbag. He seems to be quite the nice, genuine, sophisticated Marxist.
But since we know next to nothing about the man, other than he speaks great, but says absolutely nothing, his choice of people that surround him and his unwillingness to say what those people say or do is wrong-instead of simply saying "I don't agree with some of his statements", says something about his character.

Thomas also says that Hillary Clinton's character would matter too, if she had any.
I couldn't agree more.