Wright Flight? Will Wright Cause Whites To Run From Obama?

Cheryl:

I completely reject your (and others) horrific mischaracterizations of Rev. Wright's messages. But hey, that's politics.

If he had stopped before the National Press Club speech and interview, I wouldn't have been so hard on him Cheryl. As it is though, can you say that he even cares about Barack Obama after the position he has put him in? Obama is fighting to be the first black president and Wright comes out and says the most embarrassing conspiracy theories he can think of and then has the audacity to say Obama is lying when Obama says he doesn't subscribe to those beliefs! That is a stab in the back with a really long knife... someone that can do that to me makes me wonder if we were ever really friends to start with.

Cheryl:

Scott, I believe that they both feel something for one another, otherwise there would have been no bruised feelings on either part. Rev. Wright didn't say anything different at the Press Club than he has said in the past, so what he said there was no more "savage" than what he expressed in Detroit the previous day.

I think that it was certainly clear on Obama's part that he was both saddened it had come to this as well as intensely angry that Wright would question his veracity in public. The National Press Club appearance sealed the deal because that is when Wright essentially labeled Barack Obama as a liar saying that Obama was just like Wright but was lying about it to obtain office. I believe that this is what hurt Obama so deeply and finally pushed him to the point of publicly cutting ties with Wright. I myself have been stabbed in the back by some close to me and it hurts greatly and the only way to move past it is to cut them out of your life like the cancer that they are.

The point that should be made, instead of continuing to villify Rev. Wright, is that the mainstream media has once again succeeded in taking what they perceive as "uppity" Obama down a peg or two.

I agree with this being frontrunner syndrome, however, I don't think that if Wright truly considered Obama like a godson that he would have gleefully taken part in "taking Obama down a few pegs" as you have so accurately put it.

The power that they wield is something to behold! IMO the only good thing to come out of all of this is that hopefully any onlookers who weren't aware of the power of corporate media are no longer so naive. Their ability to completely shape opinions in such a way that before your very eyes transform words and events into something entirely different than what actually occurred is worthy of any illusionist. Daily they all parrot each other's talking points even down to the specific verbiage and headlines used.

This is the worst of what Howard Dean and then Obama have termed "Gotcha!" politics in which the media, in search of a story, connects a candidate to a somewhat tangential group or person from their past and makes a big deal about it. I think that the selfish mistake Wright made was to play along with the media in trying to destroy Obama simply for his own personal benefit whether it was to maintain his pride, sell his book, increase his notoriety outside the black community or all three. IMHO, a real man of God would not use one of his flock's coattails to make a point while destroying that person. It's not very Christ-like to me.

I think that's something to always consider when people are being demonized, regardless of who they may be.

I agree. I also think that Wright's insistence on inflating his own fame as well as making as much money as possible from his book based on his connection to Obama indicates that he was being rightly demonized.