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Race for President
 Barak Obama has his own problems right now. Namely this:You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. Ummm... whoops. So, while Obama hits the spin cycle to try to explain away this monstrous gaffe, he could probably do without a Rev. Wright redux. The Rev. Wright was not wont to oblige him with his silence. Here are the highlights: [On] Saturday Wright made his first extensive public remarks since the controversy began as he paid tribute to his friend, former appellate judge R. Eugene Pincham, a congregant at Trinity since 1987. Oh boy. First off, whatever the personal, political and related sentiments of the late Judge Pincham were, one has to wonder if he - or his family - really appreciated Rev. Wright using the man's funeral as an opportunity to fire a salvo at his media critics. It would seem the more appropriate tact would have been to eulogize the man and his accomplishments, without the unnecessary framing against Wright's own media flaps. This wreaks of a very self-serving odor. But, none the less, Pincham was a Trinity congregant, so I'm sure he wouldn't have been surprised by Wright's statements. Unless of course he like Sen. Obama wasn't around for some of Wright's more controversial moments. But, I digress. While the Wright flap certainly hasn't disappeared completely, it had been reduced to somewhat of a backburner story. It was there, but not the focus. From Obama's perspective, he can't appreciate Wright's direct targeting of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity by name for the inevitable hours of voice they'll put to the story over the coming weeks. Wright is fueling the fire, and as a public figure, he has to be aware of what he's doing. Wright will be an issue in the general election for the simple reason that this story drives Barack Obama's negative numbers. While it's unlikely that the McCain campaign will be the ones banging this drum, it's almost a certainty that millions upon millions will be poured into 527 advertisements neatly packaging Wright's "God damn America" bomb, similar to the Swift Boat Vets ads in 2004. Wright is now adding fuel to the fire and attempting to provoke two of the "alternative media's" bigger voices. At a time when Obama is trying grapple with a controversy of his own making, he doesn't need the added headache of Wright injecting himself back into the headlines. Filed Under: Race for President E-mail this article to a friend | Printer friendly format |
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