What interests me is why people are starting to make a ruckus about this right now. It's not as if Obama's association with Wright was some big dark secret that has only just surfaced - and people who were in the know, ie. politics buffs and journalists and the like, were well aware that this guy's a bit of a loose cannon, and could prove to be Obama's biggest achilles heel. So why now? All of a sudden? The timing's a little odd.
What I don't understand is why this stuff didn't come out in 2004.
Well, even if it was played strongly in the 2004 GE contest, he would have won by only, say 30 points against Keyes, instead of 40. The primary win, I suspect, would have been given to him by Cook County, regardless of the situation. But maybe I'm wrong.
As to MichaelZ's original comment - one of the American media's favorite pastimes is building someone up so they can tear them down. Because of the lengths the media has gone to in building his image up so much, the tear down will probably be especially ugly, mainly if there's more this crap around.
