Reply #58: That's one step in the right direction, but Obama needs to take several more [View All]

[Ediacara]

1) I don't believe Caldwell for one minute when he says he has no idea what was on his website. Additionally, the fact that the woman supposedly running the show uses a phone number and email address from his church tells me that at the very least he condoned what was going on. Either that or he has the worst run organization in the history of organizations.

2) He also knows exactly what he thinks about gays. “I would need to check with the church,” is a total cop-out answer. He was asked if he supported civil unions, not the church. That answer tells me he doesn't support gays (hey if you can be a mind reader, so can I).

3) When Caldwell announced his support of Obama, he made it quite clear that he had contacted the Obama campaign ahead of time and they were quite excited about getting him on board, and were very amenable to getting the Senator to speak at his church. Only after the revelations about Metanoa, did the Obama campaign finally do the right thing and reject his help.

4) Obama knew that McClurkin was a bigot and would create a problem at least a week ahead of his appearance where he, without hindrance and under Obama's banner emceed an event that consisted of defamatory speech against homosexuals and homosexuality. Obama knew this would happen well in advance, yet did nothing to reject this agent of hate. Good for him for not having him campaign again, but that hardly makes up for the fact that he allowed it to happen in the first place, and has yet to admit he made a terrible mistake.