About That Endorsement, Obama And Farrakhan

Louis Farrakhan has endorsed Barack Obama for president, in part because he has a white mother.

It was my understanding that every president in US history had a white mother, but that's beside the point.

This has created a bit of a public relations problem for Obama. As Scott Ott phrased it:

Meanwhile, Sen. Obama’s campaign moved to distance itself from Minister Farrakhan’s praise, as one Obama aide put it, “far enough away to assuage voters nervous about Farrakhan’s antisemitism, black nationalism and wacky conspiracy theories, while being careful not to alienate anti-Semites, black nationalists and conspiracy theorists in general, who make up an important element of the Democrat party base.”

But then, it's worth remembering that the pastor of Obama's church, is tight with Farrakhan.