How can Obama claim that these are not his ideals when he has been a member....?

The problem is that there are so many ignorant people out there who will beleive that his nonsense and bs. It is pretty obvious to me that if he was a member of that church for so long and considered Wright his "mentor" then he knew exactly what was going on and being said in that church. Now "all of a sudden" he wants to distance himself away from all of that because he has been caught. It is a typical poor pathetic excuse filled mess.