Kirk:
You don’t recall homilies you’ve heard because, quite frankly, the overwhelming majority of them are not exceptional in any way, shape or form. If you were present when one of your priests or deacons said something that outraged you, you’d remember it.
Which is the point.
The stuff Wright says is outrageous; as the record becomes more & more developed, it becomes more & more obvious that ‘outrageous’ is territory he visits regularly.
“I didn’t know” isn’t plausible – Obama would’ve had to be in a coma to miss it.
Which leaves two explanations:
1) “I didn’t consider it outrageous before” – in which case Senator Obama has some pretty outrageous ideas himself; or
2) “It was politically advantageous for me to stay with Wright then; it’s politically advantageous for me to denounce Wright now” – in which case Obama’s “new politics” is a sham.
What Obama tried to do in Philadelphia is reassure the middle without angering that portion of his base which believes the crap Wright spews.
In short, he behaved like a politician.
Wright’s gone out of his way since Friday to make that straddle impossible.
And Obama’s still acting like a politician – “Why, I JUST DIDN’T KNOW until now …”
Yeah. Right.
