The entire purpose of this specious twaddle was to stop the uproar about Wright's rantings. First, lets deal with one subject. Last weekend, in a couple venues, Obama claimed that he never heard Wright spout any of his BS previously, in private or in the church, that had he done so, he'd have walked out. Today we find out that yeah, he had been in church and heard him. Oh, he disagreed with them, though.

Later Obama explains that he cannot disown Wright any more than he can the black community or his white grandmother. Does the black community need disowning? Is he attributing Wright's ignorant comments and thought(?) behind them to the black community? Does he think that poorly of an entire community? And then he pulls out the old chestnut about his "white grandmother" who helped raise him. This isn't the first we've heard of her fear of blacks or occasional racial/ethnic stereotyping. And of course, let's liken Geraldine Farraro's non PC comment to all this (oh, he wouldn't do that, but some have attributed deep-seated racial bias to her.

The political speech was just that, yet another talk by yet another politician. He bemoans the idea that some have brought race into the campaign, yet he takes pains in stressing age-old grievances, some valid, some not. And again, he offers no solutions. His claim throughout the campaign is to be this seasons's "Uniter", that he'll bring us all together. Yet his only attempt at bringing anyone together is to bring together the poor against the rich (white) power.

Let's all do it for Ashley. Then we can have change and hope. Bull crap