He says it's no big deal. Not “outrageous” “bigoted” “racist” or “anti-American.” Just stupid. Revealing how he still doesn’t get it, Obama said “This is somebody that was preaching three sermons at least a week for 30 years and it got boiled down ... into a half-minute sound clip and just played it over and over and over again, partly because it spoke to some of the racial divisions we have in this country.”
Later: “We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere does something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and forgets about the war in Iraq and we forget about the economy." (Washington Post)
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