Obama’s pastor and the ad
April 29th, 2008, 12:34 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Barry Smith
I’ve gotten a handful of comments about my column, along with a previous blog post regarding the N.C. Republican Party’s ad trying to link Democratic gubernatorial front-runners Bev Perdue and Richard Moore to presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
In my column and blog, I posed a couple of questions:
1. Should Obama’s pastor be a factor in the North Carolina gubernatorial election?
2. Is it appropriate to hold a candidate responsible for the political views of a religious leader of the candidate’s chosen affiliation?
One email regarding my column said it was “a stretch” when I mentioned that other candidates in the past have been asked to square their views with those of their religion. Another suggested that someone who sits in the same church for 20 years and listens to such views and doesn’t change churches either agrees with the views or “is just plain stupid.”
A response to a previous blog post had some not-too-kind words to say for the N.C. GOP.
My above two question remain.
