Schadenfreude:

Specifically, let's talk about Senator Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

It seems to me that, in trying to understand how Obama could have listened to Wright for 20 years, you are asking the wrong question.

The real question is: where else could he have gone?

My guess is that his church is more to him than just a place he goes of a Sunday morning, out of convention and habit. It's the heart and soul of his community - that group of other humans with whom he feels like he belongs.

What you should be asking yourself is this: why would a young, intelligent, well-educated man, from a prosperous, white family, join this church?

Could it be that he wasn't welcome in yours? (Oh, no, you'll protest, he would have been welcome in mine. Bullshit?)

Your post has to be the most retarded thing I have read that has been written on this subject thus far.

And there have been many contenders for that honor.