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It’s a mystery for the ages – how a never-was ended up becoming one of the most famous people in the country. This never-was once played professional football and had a couple of decent seasons, even making it to the Super Bowl once. He lost. Then he lost whatever limited ability he once had, fading into the oblivion back-bench players live in on their way out the door. But this was Colin Kaepernick, someone you’ve undoubtedly heard of by now, a guy reduced to finding new and creative ways to keep his name, his brand, alive so that gravy train...

...I, too, think Wright is digging center stage. But I also suspect he specifically wants to tank Obama's candidacy. I mean, this is a man who has spent a fair portion of his career spreading the message that blacks cannot get a fair shake in this country; that America was, is, and always will be fundamentally racist; that the U.S. government in particular has it in for blacks. So what happens to all that if suddenly a black man--and not just any black man, but one who has been counseled by Wright and so cannot be dismissed as some pathetic...