It astounds me that Obama thinks people are so dumb as to believe that he had no idea what Wright was saying when Wright HAS been saying the same thing for the twenty years that Obama was clapping and cheering along with him.

But then again, Obama is a product of affirmative action, in which black people are never held accountable for any decision they make and in which the rules are changed to assure it. He HAS been surrounded with dumb white liberal Democrats his entire life and political career; why shouldn’t he be expected to act in the same arrogant and clueless fashion on the national stage?

http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=3b45fadb-a622-4959-a8b6-4352ad5abd5b

And here is Hugh Hewitt interviewing James Leileks who is impersonating Andrew Sullivan in the same style that Sullivan used in the interview

http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=4cfd6acb-23ec-4993-8c47-11d1c6787024

And one of my greatest sources of joy here (schadenfreude) would be poor, clueless, hysterical Andrew Sullivan. The whole thing is such a burn on him. Six weeks ago, when Obama gave a speech excusing Wright’s lunacies and saying Obama could no more disown Wright than his own white grandmother, Sullivan practically wet himself. Now Obama has said ‘Never mind… I disown Wright’. Oops. LOL

Obama’s best-selling Audacity of Hope is named after the first sermon of Wright’s that he heard — decades ago — in which the pastor of racial resentment inveighed against an environment “where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.” Yet, only now has Obama concluded that Wright’s sermons are “a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth.”

Welcome to the Jive-Talk Express.

…if voters believe that Obama fundamentally rejects Wright’s views, they might [only] question Obama’s judgment in remaining close to Wright for 20 years. But if voters believe that Obama secretly agrees with Wright but is putting on another face to win an election, then all is lost.

It doesn’t change the fact, of course, that Obama DOES secretly agree with Wright or else he could not have physically kept himself in that pew for 20 long years of Sundays. But it obscures the fact. It lets Obama confuse people, or *distract* (haha) people from the real issue: Obama’s real views.

Obama is stuttering so much right now, it’s funny.

I know. Whenever he’s put on the spot, he loses what supposedly made him more articulate than Bush. He starts stuttering and prattling on like an idiot. If Bush were hallucinating, he’d make a hell of a lot more sense than Snobama.

Talking about real issues throws him off his Future Hope for loose Change soundtrack.

Yeah, Obama’s thrown Wright fully overboard. So I’m wondering:

1) Why didn’t Obama know sooner? (Or, what did he know and when did he know it? haha)
2) What is Wright’s next move?

The bottom line: After 20 years of friendship, if Obama didn’t know Wright held these beliefs he’s a moron and if he did know he’s a fraud.

I wonder if Wright will take it lying down? Or, who knows, is this all an elaborate plot to restore Obama’s standing with the public?

Predictably, Andrew Sullivan – that hysteric who, in Hitchens’ memorable turn of phrase, wants to have Barack Obama’s F-ing baby – is out there spinning madly for Obama. He depicts Obama’s new stance as “without calculation” (i.e., from a place of integrity, heart, realness, etc.). When we all know Obama has only done it now that it looks like Wright is a net liability to Obama’s electoral prospects.

I suppose a lot of it depends on *what* Wright remarks Obama repudiates, or how. Last time, Obama said “I unequivocally repudiate the remarks that people find controversial”. Which isn’t exactly unequivocal, i.e., he never bothered to say WHICH remarks he disagreed with. Is Obama doing the same game now?

Obama stated flatly that he doesn’t share the views of the man who officiated at his wedding, baptized his two daughters and been his pastor for 20 years.

Who knew the AP was so good at dry, acerbic wit?

Obama is stuttering so much right now, it’s funny.

He just said right now that what Wright said yesterday contradicts EVERYTHING that Obama believes in.

What a liar!!!!! Nothing that Wright said yesterday is new. The things Wright said yesterday are the things he has always said.

I love it. Keep talking Obama… keep talking… you might need a shovel because I think the one you’re using now is getting dull you’re digging so much.

It is interesting how the Left is now turning on Wright. Not because they mind Wright’s hateful bigotry and lunacy, mind you, but because it’s clearly reached the point where Wright is damaging Obama’s prospects.

Even Andrew Sullivan finally got a clue yesterday… after weeks of characterizing as “bigot”, yadda yadda, anyone who would dare to notice Wright’s bigotry and lunacy or to question Obama’s judgment in choosing Wright as his pastor.

And after the sideshow at the National Press Club by his pastor i think there is no way he can win.

BTW: Have you people noticed the massive conspiracy theorizing about what Wright is up to? Some people think Wright is actually acting on orders by Clinton to destroy Obama.

The Democrats are so unprincipled that I can actually believe that that could be true.

All the Democrats have to offer is hatred of and opposition to. Not a one of them can articulate anything close to a vision or a strategy; they just scream about how anti-Bush and anti-Republican they are.

And when a party whose entire strategy is stoking hatred and demonization of others has conflicts, the only thing it can do is tear itself into tiny Balkanized bits.

I personally wonder how much of these ratings affect when she is tieing or beating McCain, raising a lot of cash, and is moving to beat Obama in IN and close the gap in NC.

Apparently one poll has her beating McCain by 9%, while Obama is only able to tie him. If this poll turns into a trend, and Obama continues to lose his sheen, I suspect superdelegates will start moving back to Hillary. I hope so.

Because the only reason Hillary is enjoying success right now is because for some unexplained reason no one has or is attacking her long history of corruption. Something that will change if she becomes the nominee. And when America is reminded just how incredibly corrupt she and her husband are, she will be toast.