Stanley Dunham, “Barry” Obama and grandmother Madelyn Dunham

Let’s see Senator Barack Obama said the following a few weeks ago in his “memorable” A More Perfect Union Speech about Pastor Jeremiah Wright:

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Now, that Obama has thrown Pastor Wright “under the bus” and disavowed him, what about the black community and his grandmother who he did throw “under the bus” weeks ago?

Glenn McCoy on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright

The latest Fox News poll has some interesting data of the Barack Obama – Jeremiah Wright flap.

The poll was conducted by telephone on April 28 and 29.

With polling numbers like these, Flap expects to see some movement in the weekend Indiana Democratic primary polls and perhaps some movement in North Carolina.

It is Flap’s opinion that should Obama fail to win both primary elections, the Democrat nomination race will continue all of the way to Denver in August.

Stay tuned……..

Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama

Has the bleeding stopped from Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s National Press Club appearance and Barack Obama’s Sister Soulja moment yesterday?

Yes – for a while.

Now, the psycho – political analysis begins for both men.

Chicago friends of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama say both men are simply sad following a controversy and eventual falling out that came to a head Tuesday.

Just how did the battle of wills play out behind the scenes?

CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports Obama felt betrayed and Wright felt sand-bagged. Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church said he has been speaking to both men as the events of the past 24 hours unfolded.

He counseled Obama Tuesday morning, and while CBS 2 talked to him Tuesday evening, Rev. Wright called his cell phone.

“I don’t think he had any intention to hurt Barack. He loves Barack,” Pfleger said. “I think the pain and the moment took over.”

That moment was in a place Pfleger called “a lion’s den” – The National Press Club.

“The people who were close to him pleaded with him not to do it,” said WVON radio host Roland Martin. “We knew what the questions were gonna be, but it really was the antics, the looks the dismissive tone, the strut. It was being flippant, some say being pompous and arrogant.”

This story will die down now as the May 6th primary elections loom in North Carolina and Indiana. The weekend polling will show what ACTUAL damage has been done to the Obama brand.

In the meantime, Democrat Superdelegates appear to be ready to break for Obama.

Stay tuned……

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Update:

• What Wright said Monday “directly contradicts everything I’ve done in my life.”

• Obama: There has been great damage to our relationship

• Obama: Sound bites created a charicature of Wright; yesterday Wright characterized himself

But, there was NO DIRECT repudiation of Wright.

Did Obama go far enough?

Glenn McCoy on Reverend Jeremiah Wright

Enlightened idea of the day: Wright’s Voice Could Spell Doom for Obama

Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama’s presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama’s longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered – and added lighter fuel.

Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks (“God damn America”) and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.

Every minute that Barack Obama does NOT “THROW JEREMIAH WRIGHT UNDER THE BUS” harms his Presidential campaign and the Democrat Party’s chances of regaining the White House.

The stage has been set for a “Sister Soulja Moment” and Obama must cease upon it. Flap says if he continues to do nothing past tomorrow – put a fork in him – HE”S DONE.”