There is a wonderful Seinfeld episode in which they take the idea that so long as you are of something you can then criticize that same something, because after all you couldn't be prejudiced, because then you would be prejudiced against yourself. When I read nonsense such as most of the posts above about how Obama is now tainted by being associated with someone I wonder at the mentality that can go through their own heads, and through all their friends' verbal thoughts and arrive at the conclusion that I/we have never thought any of these bad thoughts nor do any of my friends think any of these bad thoughts because if they did I wouldn't have anything to do with them.
"And he set me free to forgive stupidity, and he set me free to praise God in spite of an oppressive government. Our government has been oppressing folk since we stole this country from the Comanche. But I'm going to praise Him in spite of the government. Our country has been oppressing folks since it defined African men as three-fifths of a person. But I'm gonna praise Him in spite of our government. Our country has been oppressing folk since the Dred Scott decision in the 1850s and Plessy versus Ferguson at the end of last century. But I'm gonna praise him in spite of this government." Jeremiah Wright
"And he set me free to forgive stupidity, and he set me free to praise God in spite of an oppressive government. Our government has been oppressing folk since we stole this country from the Comanche. But I'm going to praise Him in spite of the government. Our country has been oppressing folks since it defined African men as three-fifths of a person. But I'm gonna praise Him in spite of our government. Our country has been oppressing folk since the Dred Scott decision in the 1850s and Plessy versus Ferguson at the end of last century. But I'm gonna praise him in spite of this government." Jeremiah Wright