I Hate to Renege, but...

I'm having qualms about my thoughts that the Rev. Wright story should be dead and buried with Obama's denunciation. First of all, the idea that Barack had no idea the type of rhetoric Wright was using is absolutely absurd.

"Had I heard those statements in the church, I would have told Reverend Wright that I profoundly disagree with them," Obama said, adding, "What I have been hearing and had been hearing in church was talk about Jesus and talk about faith and values and serving the poor."

When the only soundbite available was Wright's whole "God damn America" indictment, this may have been plausible. However, it seems like everyday more and more clips of anti-American, blatantly racist sermons are coming out. Victor Davis Hanson compares it to the constant revelations during the Watergate scandal.

Let's throw out the possibility that Obama sleeps through church, and also assume he attends at least semi-regularly. How in the hell can he be so oblivious to the inflammatory speech coming from the pulpit? A year ago, Obama stopped Wright from saying the prayer at his presidential campaign announcement.

But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.

“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.

Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.

Furthermore, Obama has never specifically said what exactly it is he disagrees with Wright about. Tomorrow, Obama's going to give a speech specifically addressing religion, race, and Wright's bigotry.

Speaking with reporters, Obama said the media is portraying Wright inaccurately.

"I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate, and so part of what I will do tomorrow is to talk about how these issues are perceived from within the black church community for example which I think skews this very differently."

Caricature? If it looks like an anti-American, race-baiting, bigoted pastor using his bully pulpit to put forth an agenda seeped in fabrications and animosity towards the majority of the country's ideals, if it smells like an anti-American, race-baiting, bigoted pastor using his bully pulpit to put forth an agenda seeped in fabrications and animosity towards the majority of the country's ideals, well then, you know the rest.

I am very interested to hear how Barack thinks that portraying Wright as I and nearly every member of the media, liberal or conservative have, is inaccurate. His speech tomorrow may make or break his campaign.