President Obama doesn't have a 'pastor problem'

From The LA Times-

It was a sad moment for many Republicans during the 2008 presidential contest when Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to let his staff use the fiery left-wing sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Yoking Obama to his Chicago pastor's unforgiving views on American imperialism and racism was so tempting that four years later, a Republican strategist came up with a plan to use the material against Obama "to do exactly what John McCain would not let us do." The plan, criticized as blatantly racist, was scuttled and the strategist later apologized.

But President Obama's political enemies still pine for another "Rev. Wright" to exploit. The list is long, and includes the living and the dead: Bill Ayers, Van Jones, the New Black Panthers, Saul Alinsky, Derrick Bell, who was described by the late conservative agitator Andrew Breitbart as "the Jeremiah Wright of academia."

Nothing has stuck.

I can imagine the delight some Obama haters felt Sunday when their eyes landed upon the White House pool report about the president's Easter morning worship at St. John's Episcopal Church, across the street from the White House on Lafayette Square. (When the president is out in public, a rotating pool of reporters chronicles his every move.)

More here-

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-abcarian-obama-priest-20130404,0,1804000.story