I just read a very very good evaluation of the situation with this Wright person vis-a-vis Obama:
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I read a little bit about Wright back at the beginning of the year, and it was pretty clear what he was, and I understood as well what Obama saw in him and got from him. That’s part of the package you get if you elect Obama – it’s not the whole package by any means, but it’s part of it.
I do wish that months ago Obama had said something like the following: “with all due respect to my pastor, I think some of the things he says are not just extreme or provocative, they are dangerous and wrong. At a time when fantastic conspiracy theories about AIDS have cost millions of lives in Africa, for an African-American minister – who, I should stress, has put his heart and soul into helping people infected with HIV – to stoke those kinds of fears is unconscionable. And I do hope that, to some degree, my candidacy and my Presidency will lead to a greater degree of trust, and that conspiracy theories like these get a little less traction in the next generation.” Yeah, that would have been nice. But I wouldn’t expect more than that in terms of distancing. And I’m not sure I’d want to hear it. The man is who he is. He doesn’t become somebody else if he throws his pastor under a bus. If Obama’s attachment to Wright is a dealbreaker for you, you shouldn’t vote for him – and that shouldn’t change if he denounces him today because he’s become politically “toxic.”
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That's from Noah Millman at
The American Scene. Millman's pretty good.