Imagine If This Scandal Involved Gov. Palin's Pastor

Imagine If This Scandal Involved Gov. Palin's Pastor

Do you think that there would be anyone, anywhere, who would not have heard about it fifty eight times in one day? From the September 9, 2008 New York Post:

He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned.
Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.
When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne's husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.
"I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me," Payne said.
She refused to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright.
But fellow churchgoers at Friendship-West "found out about the affair in the spring," Payne said.
At the time, she was secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright disciple.
In April, Payne organized a series of Texas public appearances by Wright, 67. Weeks before, Obama had disavowed his preacher of 20 years after Wright's anti-government rants came to light.
"Liz was by Rev. Wright's side day and night during those days," a church source said.
"It's all true," said Payne, adding that she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.
In an ironic twist, Wright last night spoke at an East Orange, NJ, church revival on the subject of "unexpected problems."
"There's no such thing as a problem-free relationship," he told a packed Elmwood United Presbyterian Church. "In life, you'll have unexpected problems."

Now, Obama has disavowed Rev. Wright's racist, hate-filled ideology--after attending his church for twenty years, and only after he became an embarrassment--so perhaps we shouldn't attach too much importance to this. But remember all the nice things that Obama said about Rev. Wright before the disavowal? Hmmm. Rev. Wright. Tony Rezko. Bill Ayers. I think Obama might need some lessons in how to pick friends. I'm not going to jump up and down about John McCain's wonderfulness--but those who keep seeing Obamas as the One need to take a real careful look at their idol.