Senator Obama has based his qualifications for POTUS on his superior judgement. Assuming for the moment, however unlikely it may be, that he in fact had not heard Wright make the statements which “angered and saddened” him today during the previous 20 years, he HAD heard them in the last 60 days. There was nothing new that came to light in the NPC performance that was not part and parcel of the Youtube clips. You’d think he might have asked “So do you REALLY, REALLY believe the government developed AIDS to kill off African-Americans?” So, why is Obama only angered now?
The POTUS does not have the luxury of 20 years, or at times even 60 days, to evaluate and respond to situations far more dangerous than political damage control. I don’t want to wake up one morning to see breaking news of Obama saying “The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who authorized the detonation of a nuclear device in (fill in the blank) is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I negotiated with.” While Obama may be “angered and saddened”, others will be dead.
