The Wright business is being blown entirely out of proportion, and I believe the reasons for this are neither honest nor wholesome.
In focusing so much attention on this, America, which weeks ago was congratulating itself with the idea that a black man could run and win, now begins to show old, true underlying attitudes.
In this the country resembles someone whose hair dye-job was being praised weeks ago for its freshness but is now the source of ugly gossip as the genuine hair color creeps back in at the roots.
God, if Obama made a mistake here it was a small one.
Just look at the mistakes in Washington. Often it seems nothing else goes on there but mistakes.
Bush and the strategic blunder of the century, wasting lives and resources on a colossal scale?
A Supreme Court which effectively appointed Bush in the first place?
Hillary Clinton living with Bill Clinton for three decades of ethical degradation and embarrassment and shame?
Bill Clinton, a man of considerable talents who to a large extent squandered them and demonstrated countless times a highly doubtful character?
John McCain mocking and attacking the Religious Right and then shortly after crawling for their support?
One could write a book called Washington Mistakes. If the author only briefly cited each error and kept the time-frame to say the last fifty years, the book would be encyclopedic in length.
