Heck, evangelicals were falling for Mike Huckabee, who is only marginally better than Jimmy Carter.
Mormons still fall for Mitt Romney, despite his being an outright fraud.
So I don’t want to throw too many stones at black churches.
But they do need to wake up.
dear Black christians. Obama IS muslim. he left that out.
And I know people who voted for Carter thinking he was a genuine Christian. There are Repubs out there who will tell you, Carter was the only Dem they had ever voted for. And for some people, Carter is the reason they became Repubs, so it all works out sometimes.
And I know white Christian Repubs who were impressed with Obama early on because he seemed to be so outspoken about his faith. Thank goodness the Reverend Wright episode cleared that up for most of them, but not all of them I have to say. I have a boss who is religious, and switched from Repub to Dem, so impressed was he after reading O's biography.
So, it isn't just black Christians with this problem.
I've told this before. I was talking to a black pastor who started bad-mouthing Condoleeza Rice to me. I smiled, put up my hand and said, man, you're talking to the wrong guy. I'm in love with that lady, I said, she is one of the most intelligent and capable people we've got in government and I admire her a great deal.
He immediately started sputtering and back-tracking. He lives in an echo-chamber, and I think it never occurred to him that everyone didn't hate her.
Sometimes the best answer is to smile and stand up for what you believe, and open up the echo chamber.