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Here is what happened: Everything was fine as long as Wright's comments were plausibly deniable or could be sufficiently spun into irrelevancy either by referring to the motivation of those playing the clips or by referring to them as out-of-context sound bytes or by referring to Wright as a product of his time and place like Obama's typical white person grandmother.

The content of what was said didn't bother Obama at all. But when there was sufficient publicity and Wright directly said on news shows many of the same things he said in his church and doing nothing (according to the poll numbers hastily gathered that weekend) would hurt Obama, then Obama denounced what he had before denied and then diluted. When it was convenient for Obama to use Wright's church on the local scene to enhance his political life, he did so. When it became inconvenient on the national scene, he dismissed him (this is like certain politicians being pro-life on the local political scene and then "growing" to embrace pro-abortion when moving to a national scene).

It isn't about whether there was anything objectionable about what Wright said, it was all about the possible effect of Obama's perceived political fortunes. He followed the typical leftist Democrat M.O. of doing and saying whatever he needed whenever he needed to advance his own cause. It's all about Barack.

He followed the typical leftist Democrat M.O. of doing and saying whatever he needed whenever he needed to advance his own cause. It's all about Barack.

I agree. Also, this is one of the very few times that Barry ever got specific about anything. The "Greatest Speech Ever" in Philadelphia was all "what offends you offends me, and I hope we can change that for my children".

The CYA press conference was much different. He got specific and condemned things that the Obama apologists said were 100% "Truth To Power".

Barry is dead if he ever has to get specific. He's like John Kerry, but without the humility.

Krauthammer: "Obama's Philadelphia oration was an exercise in contextualization. In one particularly egregious play on white guilt, Obama had the audacity to suggest that whites should be ashamed they were ever surprised by Wright's remarks: "The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour of American life occurs on Sunday morning."That was then. On Tuesday, Obama declared that he himself was surprised at Wright's outrages. But hadn't Obama told us that surprise about Wright is a result of white ignorance of black churches brought on by America's history of segregated services?"

What was the bit about different learning styles? The Aristotelian logical principle of non-contradiction is left-brained. Jive is right-brained, doctor. Come on, man!