The Reverend Jeremiah Wright has spent the last 20 years telling his congregation that the United States is a bad-to-the-bone place, a place whose evil explains the plight of inner city African-Americans. In the sort of bad place he has described, no African-American could possibly be elected President.
If Barack Hussein Obama is elected President of these United States, then the Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been wrong about the sort of place in which he, and we, live and prosper. Most folks don't like to be shown to be wrong, particularly those who've described their views in highly emotional terms to large audiences Sunday after Sunday, and most recently to the NAACP in Detroit and to the National Press Club in Washington.
How else to explain that the Reverend Wright seems to be doing his level best in recent days to ensure that parishioner Obama is not elected President? In spite of his earlier pledge, Obama will have to disavow Wright or be dragged down by him. When he does this he will alienate some of his base in the black community. Here the rock and the hard place get very close together. The Clintons have got to be thinking "Go, Jeremiah, go!"
