The God-o-Meter notes that Obama’s minister was back in the news again because his church’s magazine gave an award to Farrakhan. The GoM notes that Obama distanced himself from the comments he made about Clinton but not Farrakan:

What’s interesting to God-o-Meter is that the Obama campaign distanced itself from Wright’s attack of Clinton even as it has stayed mum on his embrace of Farrakhan. With the Jeremiah Wright stories piling up, God-o-Meter will keep watching closely for Obama’s reaction. It doubts Obama will run too far from the man who game him the title to his latest book, The Audacity of Hope. For one, Obama is by all accounts a true believer whose life was changed by Wright. And after more than a year of establishing his religious bona fides, is Obama really going to throw his pastor under the bus?

Well, he didn’t throw his pastor under the bus but he did repudiate the one the pastor awarded:

Senator Obama’s decision yesterday to distance himself from his hometown minister and repudiate the Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, has drawn praise from leaders in the Jewish community. The issue arose after a Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen, penned an article that pressured Mr. Obama to take a stand on a decision by his Chicago church to honor Mr. Farrakhan, who has made repeated anti-Semitic statements over the years. “I decry racism and anti-Semitism in any form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements by Minister Farrakhan,” Mr. Obama said in a statement issued after the column was published yesterday, adding that he disagreed with the decision to honor him.