The Senator from Illinois attempting to claim the Democratic Presidential nomination picked up an endorsement he might rather not have. In Chicago recently Louis Farrakhan said that Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world."

During the same speech in which Farrakhan said that he also said, "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," referring to the mother of Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam.

Farrakhan has also said things like Judaism is a "gutter religion" and has suggested that crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks [his words not mine].

Apparently, Obama has expressed objections to such Farrakhan assertions, but I have to think a candidate who was Caucasian would have to do much more than simply express objections to those kinds of statements if they came from a white extremist. A Caucasian candidate would have to condemn such statements and completely distance himself/herself from the person who said it.

I have researched to attempt to find where Obama has condemned such remarks made by Farrakhan, but I cannot find them. Other than basically saying that he does not agree with Farrakhan, he says nothing.

I recall the uproar caused by Rush Limbaugh's comments about a NFL quarterback. I recall the uproar caused by Imus's remarks about a girls' basketball team. Neither of those men should have made those remarks. Both were condemned, however, for doing so and each ended up being taken off television programs.

If Obama refuses to condemn Farrakhan for his inappropriate remarks, is he being held to a different standard? I think so. What do you think?