After an impressive run …He’s Damaged goods

Obama like most blacks thinks Rev Wright has some good points. But now is not the time to explain to white America the context of Re Wrights remarks. They have already made up their mind that Wright is a bad man. The best thing to do is to just make the issue go away. many white americans are too unaware  to understand Rev Wright anyway and explaining this to them is a waste of time. .

me I think Obama’s dilemma is that he probably stayed in Wright’s church for that long, and even got married there and baptized his children there because he wanted to identify with the ‘people’  and belong. We cannot convincingly argue that Obama was not aware of his preacher’s fiery preaching, the flavor of his sermons, his biases, bent and persuasions.  Hata if my own pastor preached a controversial sermon, I would be sure to hear it even if I was not present (and Wright seems to have consistently preached fire from the podium as it attests to his beliefs). 

 Truth be told, Obama knew his pastor was a hot head.  Now the slippery business is how he slithers out of this fix.  Just like he denounced Farrakhan, mara one (though he had to go through a semantic lesson and actually use the word denounce), he did not frontally and unequivocally engage the Wright issue when it began airing hoping it would go away.  It did not.  Though that is tricky, he would have come out and denounce categorically, and make his stand clear (though he would have been at pains to explain the 20 year question) or say yes, what Wright is saying is true, though he is extreme, divisive and radical in the way he expresses these views on race. 

 He expressed outrage only recently after Wright began payukaring. One is left wondering whether he is outraged because Wright put him under the bus, or because Wright is still driving divisive wedges using race when he said that the attack on his person was actually an attack on the black church.  What exactly is Obama outraged about? It is still not clear.

Obama like all of us is not perfect.  That we all know - even the people throwing mud.  The problem is how he explains these hiccups and the potential damage to his meteoric rise. 

Hillary is banking on making the case that  she can withstand the mean republican machinery with it kitchen sink arsenal, and the more damaged Obama looks, the better her plea sounds in the ears of the super delegates