Miles from Nowhere

They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs. And if Reverend Wright thinks that that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well. And based on his remarks yesterday, well, I may not know him as well as I thought, either.

Full text of Senator Obama’s remarks.

In my opinion, this ends the controversy. If anyone wants to re-ignite it, they should feel compelled to examine the sermons of Rod Parsley and John Hagee as well, remembering that those endorsements were courted. To be clear, an endorsement means that the endorser believes the endorsee most closely parallels the endorser’s goals and objectives.

You can sit in church for 20 years and disagree for 20 years. Trust me, I’ve done it. Or you can sell out and court the extremists, pandering to the worst underbelly of the self-righteous.

Or we can drop the whole thing and move on to what really matters, like hunger riots, escalation in the Persian Gulf, incoherent economic policies, stupid ideas like gas tax holidays, and taking back our government.

Bob Cesca has it right:

If the corporate media had been as diligent about watchdogging President Bush as they have been about watchdogging Reverend Wright, it’s very likely we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq

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