Hillary Clinton is claiming that if she had heard a pastor say stuff that Rev. Wright said, she would have walked out on him.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Well, with apologies to Amy Poehler and Seth Meyer of SNL, I have to say "Really?!?"
So, Hillary, you would not have sat in the pews while a pastor said stuff that, taken out of context, some people find un-American. You would have walked out then and there, huh? Really?!? Why should we believe you? Because that's how you roll? You just walk out on offensive people? Really?!?
You said,
"You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Really!?! You don't choose your family? It seems that there is one family member that you choose, and that is a spouse. Somehow Rev. Wright saying stuff that Obama agreed to disagree with is abhorrent, but blithely ignoring what your husband did with an intern a few years older than your daughter while you were in the same building is somehow understandable or even noble?
The closest thing she has to an embarrassing confidant with unfortunate views about race is an embarrassing spouse with an unfortunate history of going after women like they were petit fours. But the Starr Report ain't YouTube. (And in her autobiography, Hillary says she never read it.)
Now, Clinton and her surrogates would no doubt say that this isn't fair game--her marital relationship is sacred and between her, Bill and God. Really?!?
According to Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge, as her husband prepared to run for president, she pushed to get sworn statements from women he'd been rumored to have been involved with, statements in which they were supposed to say they'd had no relationship with him. She even interviewed one of these women herself, at her law firm. She also led efforts to undermine Gennifer Flowers, whom she referred to as "trailer trash."
In an interview she gave after the Monica Lewinsky affair became public, Hillary spoke about how horribly her husband had suffered in his childhood as the result of being torn between the first two women in his life—his mother and grandmother. (Note: Again, in this scenario it's the women who are victimizing the poor little guy.)
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Now, I was dinged for even mentioning the name of the Intern with whom Bill liased in the Oval in a previous diary. Apparently it isn't "classy." Really?!?
I applaud Barack Obama for choosing not to go there in his campaigns and for striving to keep the campaign about the issues, and even wish that I could scrub the details of the Starr Report from my brain. But it seems to me that if Hill wants a free pass on spousal commitment, Obama deserves at least the same amount of slack in the spiritual commitment arena.
UPDATED: akogun has another hilarious and cogent take on this issue, while Get Out of Iraq .lays it on the line