CNN reported this morning, story here, that The Obamas have confirmed they've resigned from Trinity United Church of Christ in the wake of the latest outburst of a sermon, this time by Father Michael Pfleger.  While Senator Obama hopes this ends a very nagging problem to his candidacy, the move today raises many more concerns about his judgment.

In Senator Obama's A More Perfect Union speech in Philadelphia last March, the one he later had to walk back from after Jeremiah Wright's National Press Club performance led Obama to quickly disown his pastor, he made a very careful effort to say there was a wonderful new pastor at the church now, Rev. Otis Moss, and that he continued to value the church community. 



Going back to the Pfleger debacle from Trinity last Sunday, look again at the introduction and the wrap-up.  Rev. Moss welcomes Pfleger as a brother who has clearly been there before, and then after sitting there and watching Pfleger's racial rant of a sermon, he praises God not only for the message, but the messenger. 




Some of the questions that should be asked of Senator Obama are ones like when does he think that Trinity United Church of Christ changed?  Does he believe the church became radical only in the last few weeks?  If Senator Obama is as anti-Farrakhan as he stated when he disowned Jeremiah Wright, how could he not know of the church's past and present fondness for Farrakhan? Was Senator Obama aware of Father Pfleger's Farrakhan ties when he orchestrated hundreds of thousands of earmarked dollars to projects run by Pfleger? 

As the Democrats finish wrestling with what to do with the Florida and Michigan half-a-delegates, in a move to try and wrap up their contentious primary, you've got to think at least some of the Obama supporters out there have to be extremely concerned that it seems no friend of Obama is above being jettisoned when it becomes politically expedient to do so.

If there is one thing that has been uncovered about the character of Barack Obama during the primary process, it's his questionable judgment.  On a micro level, the space under the Obama bus is getting crowded with Jeremiah Wright, former staffer Samantha Power, Father Pfleger, and now, apparently, an entire church.  On a macro level, Obama spent all week parsing words, essentially trying to maintain he's willing to meet with any despot around the world with no preconditions, yet he's unwilling to meet with our military leaders in Iraq unless there's a precondition of withdrawal.

The question Americans should be asking as we continue the slow, methodical march to November, doesn't judgment still matter in a president, and hasn't Barack Obama demonstrated that his judgment is flawed at best?