The Reverend Wright business doesn't affect my favorable impression of Obama—lord knows I wouldn't want what my idiot friends say held against me professionally—but it does affect my impression of Reverend Wright. He's the sort of guy you hope is mentally ill instead of just another hate-mongering, self-aggrandizing, invective-spewing asshole.
Is it just me, or did Wright just torpedo his friend's candidacy so that Wright can later reap the rewards of victimhood? Nah. It ain't just me. The larger irony here is that Wright has put Obama in the bizarre position where a vote against Obama is conceivably a vote against interracial contempt and distrust, a repudiation of racism.
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But I'm sure I just don't understand.