Loyalty has its limits. Jeremiah Wright knows exactly what he is doing. He is trying to sabotage Senator Obama’s campaign by being a bumbling buffoon on camera. He is a very intelligent man. More intelligent than most. He however suffers a disease that afflict many in the cloth. It is not about him or Obama but about the country.
Obama will overcome his campaign of destruction but it will give those who for cultural and historical reasons or hesitant to vote outside their current comfort zone the OK to vote not for the candidate they think they should vote for but against said candidate. It is that damage that Obama must repair. He needs to start this by making a new speech in which he praises all the good this man has done in the community and immediately state that because of his confrontational tone and continued escalation of issues that are of no use to the national discourse on healing that he is taking at large, he must sever his relationship with him completely. He need to make sure this is about the man and not the church however.
It is quite possible that Rev Wright will strike back but it will be seen as what it is. A very intelligent man seeking revenge for being disassociated.
I have defended a lot of what Reverend Wright has said because most of it is quite true. Unfortunately when the messenger fails to engage those he is trying to enlighten or affect he is a failure. Reverend Wright seem more interested in showing how intelligent he is as opposed to what we as a country need to do to really become one, to really make a change in all of us. What a shame.
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