Is This The Same Man That called Hillary a Racist?

Is this the same Bob Herbert who criticized Hillary for being a racist when she pointed out, correctly, according to the AP article, that Obama was losing support when she stated that: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Now comes Bob Herbert's confusion about Obama's "sudden" departure from Trinity United and whether it is a place that is "good for the soul."

This is Herbert being forced to actually acknowledge the facts.

"Senator Obama's effort to counter that line of attack has been all-but-completely undermined by the incredible shrieking pastors from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a place that might be good for the soul but is potentially ruinous for a presidential aspirant."

No wonder he is confused. He and all the black journalists, including Gene Robinson of the Washington Post, and all the others on CNN have been continuously making excuses for Obama, Trinity, Wright, and Michelle Obama, talking about the media and everyone taking that crap out of "context, how we don't understand the black church," as if I've never been in black churches all my life." Let's face it...what has been going on at Trinity has been Anti-American, Anti-white, racist, and yes... sexist behavior.

If Trinity was "good for the soul" then why was it necessary for Obama to leave the church and claim it was distracting to his candidacy? It was purely a political decision that made to limit the damage to his Presidential aspirations. Maybe none of that matters to Democrats, which is why I am no longer a Democrat, but other Americans are deeply offended and disturbed by it.

Herbert now acknowledges that there is a big problem with the rhetoric coming out of Trinity Church. He writes.

"First came the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. with his videotaped, over-the-top sermons. He didn't just criticize the United States, but damned it. The Wright controversy was a body blow to the Obama campaign, and it hasn't fully recovered yet.
I made a crack in a column last week that Senator Clinton, who had no discernible route to her party's nomination, was waiting for a Rev. Wright on steroids to burst into view.

Within days, we had the astounding video of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest who put on a grotesque performance in the church that could hardly have been more racially offensive toward white people or more personally offensive toward Senator Clinton.

His rant, cheered by the audience, was one of the worst I've seen in many years. Senator Obama announced on Saturday that he had quit the church.

What was really gross about Pflager's and Wright's performances is the fact that people were standing and cheering, even at the National Press Club.

I think whites are only now realizing how deep the hatred in the black community goes, even among well-off and influential blacks. What a shock it must have been to realize that they associate with, work with, and socialize with blacks, yet have no idea who they truly are.