Obama's Wife and Their Spiritual Adviser

Many Republicans see clear proof of unfitness for high office in Obama's choice of spiritual adviser and his equivocations about why he condoned the reverend's vicious rhetoric for so long.

by Stuart Taylor Jr

Sat. Apr. 5, 2008


Weeks of brooding over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Michelle Obama eruptions have severely shaken the hope I expressed in January: "If Barack Obama can show he is tough enough and pragmatic enough to win the presidency and serve with distinction, it would be the best thing that could happen to America and the world."

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