Get Thee Behind Me, Reverend

    So Barack Obama has finally chucked Rev. Jeremiah Wright completely under the bus and backed over him
for good measure. That is all well and good even if it is a smidge too late. I was advocating totally shafting The Rev immediately after the initial brouhaha in March but I understood the motivation behind Obama taking a softer approach. It was obvious that Obama didn't want to test the strength of his support among black folks by denouncing his pastor who just so happened to be spouting some ideas that a good number of black people agree with. The gamble he was taking by going soft was that he could possibly lose ground among white voters and Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania eventually showed us that was indeed the case.
    So now with Obama being on shaky ground with a siazable portion of white Dem voters he is making a move that he hopes will help him win that group over.
    This does lead me to believe that he doubts that black voters will care that he is completely renouncing Wright and his views and that he has their votes locked up from now until the end of this race. I would caution him against being too confident thouhg. When the Wright controversy first started a lot of black people looked at The Rev's comments as being full of ideas that they share and to see Obama do a complete 180 on Wright and his preachings could cause some black voters to turn away from Obama.
    There are a few things that Obama said today that kinda irks me though. First was his statement that, "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years." Sorry but how can you be as close to a guy as Obama was to Wright and not know what type of person he is? Calls into question that whole judgment thing as far as I'm concerned.
    Secondly I am curious to know what the hell Wright said or did that was so wild yesterday that has caused Obama to take this step? When the tapes came out Obama went on and on about how Wright's comments were taken out of context yet all of a sudden something was said by Wright that broke the camel's back so to speak?     I'm not buying it.
    I think what really happened is that Wright's repeated comments about Obama's reaction to the controversial video tapes being just the actions of a run of the mill politician royally pissed off the Obama camp. That assessment from Obama's "uncle" flies in the face of his whole campaign message at a time when things aren't going nearly as well as Obama hoped they would be going just two short months ago.
    Truth hurts sometimes I guess.
    I am curious as to what happens to Grandma Obama now, though.