Allah’s commentary is always worth reading. Today is no exception.

Ed tacked this on as an update to his last post but let’s put it front and center. Question: How do you “distance yourself” from a racist conspiracy theorist whose church you’ve patronized for 20 years? Answer, per yesterday’s post: You don’t. You swallow hard, do the denounce-and-reject two-step, and hope — audaciously! — that independents aren’t paying attention.

And then you bundle your kids into the car to go hear another of Rev. Jeremiah’s sermons on life, love, and how the people in the Twin Towers got what was coming to them.

And Allah makes an important point. It’s not so much anyone accuses Obama of agreeing with Wright. It’s that he obviously doesn’t object to what Wright says (We Deserved 9/11, We Created AIDS, We’re All Racists) enough to leave the church. If your pastor began blaming America for 9/11 and AIDS, and claimed we’re all racists and white supremacists, how long are you going to hang around?