The "Wright" stuff

Oh, my, how the 24 hour news cycles are feasting on the whole Rev. Jeremiah Wright thing. It's a story that simply refuses to die, and now people seem to be thinking that the whole thing may have dealt a fatal blow to the Obama campaign. As if! You have to wonder just how much of this is being orchestrated by the Clinton campaign as a way to try to put Obama away and crown Hillary the Democratic nominee once and for all. I wouldn't put it past them to try to do this to Obama since he's come so far so fast. I mean, OK, so this pastor has said some pretty wacky things, but what seems to be lost on people is the fact that this guy is Obama's former pastor, as in, the guy is no longer in charge of the church to which Obama goes. He may have been at one time the pastor of that church, but the media has made a point of calling Wright Obama's former pastor, so why all the brou-ha-ha, except for the fact that the guy married Obama and his wife, baptized his children and even blessed his home? And anyway, who cares what this guy has been saying in the past few news cycles? He's obviously greatly enjoying his 15 minutes of fame so much that he's using it to make overtly inflammatory statements, perhaps as a way to keep himself in the headlines. Strikes me as a bit of self aggrandizement, from where I sit, and it's not doing Obama any great favors, and I think that Wright could care less, so long as he gets to make the rounds of the talk shows and makes front pages of newspapers and magazines.

Why isn't anybody talking about the real issues like health care, gas prices, the economy, education and the like? That's what people care about and what people want to know the answers to, not some wacky preacher's inflammatory statements that have been played and re-played half to death on YouTube and the 24 hour news programs. And yet, the media tastes blood and wants more of it - oh, what a glorious chance to take down a shining star in the political spectrum! They play the most inflammatory snippets of Wright's speeches in hopes that it will sway people to shy away from Obama and hand over the nomination to the person who, just a year ago, was practically celebrating her own coronation as the likely Democratic nominee, until this young upstart came along and stole her thunder and her place in the spotlights. You almost get the impression that it's the media who decides who gets nominated, not the people, and the fact that right now they are fanning the flames of racism is repugnant to me, whether or not I support Obama. Oh, look, it's a wacky black preacher saying some really nasty things - let's keep playing them every few minutes for 24 hours straight to drive home the fact that this black candidate cannot be trusted! Puh-LEEZ! Do they have nothing better to do with their time than to keep harping on the same thing over and over and over again? Do they even care that gas prices are driving more and more people deeper into poverty? Do they care that health care costs have gotten so exhorbitant that even we insured people cannot afford to take care of ourselves? Honestly, I am so tired of all of this internecine warfare between the Democrats and what damage it's doing to the party that if this thing isn't resolved soon, it may well have dealt a fatal death blow to the Dems chances of capturing the White House in November. And that would be tragic, to say the least.