Political Genius

While the “news” claps and cheers about Obama finally distancing and now denouncing Jeremiah Wright, I stand in awe of the sheer facility and political play of the Obama campaign.

Wright’s racist vitriol was part and parcel of his weekly expositions on Black Liberation Theology (which is neither liberating nor theological, and even less so Black). Yet, after 20 years, Obama managed to never have heard any of it.  Then, along comes the media-at-large with the evidence, and Obama finds himself in a royal pickle.  He can’t back away too far from his “spiritual adviser” because that demonstrates a lack of loyalty – an unforgivable sin for most of us.  He can’t stay too close, because that would, ahem, make him, well … RACIST.  He’s stuck.

Oh dear, what’s the “Presidential Candidate For Change – ANY Change” ™ to do?  Simple.  Call up your dear spiritual adviser and ask him to say what he’s already been saying louder and more often.  Wright’s over-the-top performance these past days was done with one purpose in mind: To give Obama the room to walk away with credibility.  To be able to say that these “extreme” views are offensive. In short, to disconnect the loyalty issue so Obama could get back to polishing his “mainstream agent of non racial, oh so earnest, candidate of destiny” image.

It’s genius I tell you.  Obama’s political competitors are rank amateurs by comparison.  Whether Obama is elected President or remains a pestilence in Illinois, look for “The Barak & Jerry Show” – a cartoonish public reconciliation when Wright’s vile bilge and Obama’s midden of ideas no longer matter.