Obama was essentially an orphan, abandoned by his parents and raised by his white grandparents. I agree that he seems to have found in “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright his father figure for the father he never knew. His personal tragedy is that the man he chose is going to be the undoing of his presidential campaign, and that is fine with me.
We don’t choose our parents, but he chose this guy when already an adult in his mid-20s, and he cannot escape the burdens of that chosen association now. This is not just one of numerous cousins, one of whom happens to be kinda nutty but you try to humor him because he is after all ‘family’ — Obama chose to build his adult life around this so-called “minister” and his church. It is the central fact of his life for 20 years outside of his wife and family (who are also integrally built into this church).
I can certainly understand why Obama can’t (and won’t) now run too fast away from the man who has been the central guiding mentor of his life. However, objective voters should look at this just as they would look at an Obama-twin who had been Farrakan the main mentor of his adult life.