Wretch said in (high dudgeon) that I distorted HIS response to a poster who had suggested O’s father might have been Frank DAvis – Here’s Wretch apology for himself:

“I clearly said that Obama’s parentage is not be discussed because it is irrelevant. This was in response to an earlier comment suggesting that Obama’s real father was someone else. I rejected the relevance of that line of argument. Repeat, rejected it. The text on this comment thread will show that with absolute clarity.”

So here’s what Wretch said:

I would stay clear of Obama’s parentage for two reasons: one is that we are unlikely to prove anything definite one way or the other on that score and second because a man can choose his friends but not his relatives.

Look again at the first reason W. gave re O’s pop – - “we are unlikely to prove anything definite one way or another.” That is to say he allows that it’s an open question. Too open!! No time to come to a definite answer so best to “steer clear.” THEN he offers another reason why he wouldn’t go there. But. The quickest and surest way to stop such talk is to say that such speculation is ridiculous, wothy of nut-jobs and conspiracy thinkers. Wretch didn’t say that. WHich is why I wrote…

Confronted with the classic conspiracy-thinking of a poster who proposes that Obama’s father might have been Frank Davis, Wretch doesn’t suggest the poster needs his head examined – might lose an acolyte (as per the insight of Habu) – Wretch oh-so-gently gives the notion credence (twice) in the course of oh-so-gently steering folks in a slightly more rational conspiratorial direction – i.e. the Ayers Connection.

I can read YOU like a book Wretch. You’re running down my country man…