Sophistry

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.
( Obama, March 18, 2008 10:15 AM )

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/obama_disavows.html
The Illinois senator said that Wright's appearance, including his dismissal of Obama's attempts to defuse the controversy as political posturing, "was a show of disrespect to me" and "an insult to what we've been trying to do in this campaign."
Wright, he added, is no longer "the man I met 20 years ago." "When I say I found his comments appalling, I mean it," Obama said at a news conference in Winston-Salem, N.C. "Anybody who has worked with me, who knows my life, who read my books, who have seen what this campaign is about will understand it is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country."