So now, at this late date, Obama has decided, "Gee, that Wright character is spewing hate filled garbage...I gotta denounce that stuff." I guess that is better than nothing...but I have to ask: How is what Wright said at the Press Club and at the NAACP in Detroit any different from what was already widely reported about Wright?
What was new exactly?
Praising Farrakhan? Nope, we knew that already.
The anti-Israel stuff? No. That's old hat, and not a deal breaker in the Obama camp anyway.
Wright's saying that whites are intrinsically different from blacks? That's not new. Hell, that belief is the central tenet of his entire church.
So what are we supposed to think was the deal breaker here? Wright's claim that blacks have better rhythm?
There are a lot of politically cynical ways of answering this question. I don't believe there is a single non-cynical answer that will suffice. This is simply a case of too much, too little, too late.
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