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I've looked a few videos of Rev. Wright on You Tube and what he is saying isn't all that shocking. I suppose though, for many, they don't like to see anger about injustice.
I don't disagree with everything he has to say and I don't agree with it all either. I think he tends to play the easy cards. Cards that are the flip side of the kind of fear mongering I was seeing about Islamic Terrorists.
Neither approach is right or credible when delivered in such a manner.
Obama has rightly distanced and disavowed what Wright is saying. He has taken a very strong line (from what I can see) that makes no bones that he does not agree with Wright (the same cannot be said, for example, of Clinton and her dealings with Geraldine Ferraro).
Here's the thing, this affair is going to hurt Obama. I am not sure by how much but it will have an effect. It doesn't matter how much distance Obama puts between himself and Wright. It doesn't matter if he doesn't share Wright's beliefs, approach or any of it.
The conservative media are going to take this and run with it. They will use it to continue to taint Obama with false associations with Farrakan and they will use it to make him appear un-American.
The only question is by how much will this effect him? He still has to win the nomination and in the face of a the Clinton machine, there might not be much he can do to shake this. In fact, Clinton may not have to do more than just hang back and let them have at him. Let them bleed just enough of the swing votes away so that she regains lost ground.
These next few months are not going to be pretty.
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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke
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