Obama’s Morning-After Pill Doesn’t Do the Job

It’s gonna take more than a morning-after pill to get rid of Obama’s 20-year-old baby. Jeremiah Wright is not going away into the night, even after Obama threw him under the campaign bus. Check the Monday morning titles at RealClearPolitics today. Eleven, by my count. Obama has been carrying Wright’s water for 20 years, donating to his apartheid advocacy as recently as 2006– to the tune of $22,500.

Peter Wehner at National Review Online makes the point, fully disposing of any “guilt by association” questions.  Excerpts:

1. This is the worst crisis the Obama campaign has faced. It has done deep and perhaps long-term damage by calling into question the judgment and credibility of the junior senator from Illinois. And it badly undermines Obama’s claim that he is a figure who can bind up America’s racial wounds.2. Senator Obama, whose campaign only last year said that he was “proud of his pastor and his church,” is now saying that he wasn’t aware of the angry, reckless, anti-American, and racially divisive comments by Reverend Wright. But that claim stretches credulity. Reverend Wright, after all, is not a stranger who is offering up a presidential-year endorsement. Wright has instead played a pivotal role in Obama’s life — including marrying Barack and Michelle Obama, baptizing their two children, and inspiring the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope.

Senator Obama has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since the early 1990s. Are we supposed to believe that the kind of venom and vivid hatred that we have all seen on display — that God should damn rather than bless America, that this country created AIDS in an effort to foster genocide, that we had 9/11 coming to us, that America is the “U.S. of K.K.K.A.” and that Israel is a terrorist state — is an anomaly for Wright? That the overwhelming majority of his sermons are expositions on the love of Christ and the need to break down the dividing walls between us? That Obama was utterly shocked to see Wright’s words strung together on cable TV? That he has seen a side of Wright in the last week that he never knew existed?

Audacity, indeed.  Full text at National Review Online.