Mr. Clean, the self-appointed New Messiah of Unity and Harmony, has been badly sullied by the controversy surrounding his long association with the pastor of his church, who on numerous occasions, has said some very disparaging things about white people— those same folks, who to a large extent, are responsible for many of his primary victories.

Watching the videos of Obama's lunatic pastor stirring up his congregation with racist rhetoric and then seeing them nod their heads in agreement to his inflammatory charges was downright disquieting. And, I suspect that I am not the only one who is going to have similar sentiments on this score. What does it tell you about a political party that has encouraged the dissemination of such beliefs and done nothing to challenge them? Remember the conspiracy theory about the CIA being involved in distributing drugs to the black community in Los Angeles? Instead of instantly debunking such patent nonsense, the Clinton Administration dispatched the head of that agency to participate in a humiliating public forum where he tried to assuage African-Americans that this was not an enterprise in which the CIA was involved.

Remember also, how long the charlatan and race-baiter Al Sharpton lasted in the previous Democratic battle for the Presidency. He remained on stage long after he was due to be shown the door. Why? In order to win elections, the Democrats need nearly 100% of the African-American vote. Any pressure applied by party insiders for Sharpton’s early exit would have met with howls of indignation from among others, the Congressional Black Caucus. If Al Sharpton has been continually legitimized by the Democratic Party, is it any wonder that the views of a Reverend Wright go unchallenged by a party that approaches the subject of potential criticism always with great trepidation? The ugly truth is that Democrats by their silence, have enabled the proselytization of such wacky sermonizing.  

This practitioner of the new politics of concord and congruity says he can bring people together and bridge the racial divide. But in the end, this controversy may prove for Obama to be a Bridge Too Far. Take a look at his pastor, Reverend Wright sermonizing and after viewing this anti-white, anti-American drivel, ask yourself one question: how can he Obama maintain this pretense when he has been a member of a church that advocates black-separatism for over 20 years?

Obama has repeatedly and effectively questioned Hillary's judgement for voting for the Iraq War. The Jeremiah Wright controversy has abruptly turned the tables: It is now Barack Obama's judgement that is under intense scrutiny. First, his political acumen. Did he seriously believe that after his two terms as a state senator and twenty-year membership in a church that celebrates and preaches black separatism he could launch a presidential bid on the theme of being an agent of racial harmony? What was he thinking? It all reeks of arrogance and is starting to resemble the perpetration of a massive con-job on the unsuspecting and naive. Would all those white people in Iowa who voted for Obama be the same that advocate giving the HIV virus to African-Americans?  When the YouTube videos of Wright's despicable rantings are viewed endlessly in the heartland, there is going to be a not insignificant number of Obama supporters who feel they have been sold a false bill of goods.

And, indeed we have.

Herein lies the essential contradiction of the Obama candidacy, what Victor Davis Hanson calls the "Obama two-step." Obama's Kenyan father deserted him when he was 2 years old. Thereafter, he was raised by his white mother and his maternal grandparents. Why then does he make a point of celebrating his blackness rather than his whiteness? The answer is obvious. He has identified exclusively with the African portion of his mixed ancestry because doing so was instrumental to enhancing his incipient political career rooted in the South Side of Chicago. His membership in Reverend Wright's church can have no other explanation. Similarly, before he decided to run for president, I don't think we'll find too many instances of Michelle Obama lecturing people that the mention of her husband's middle name is an exercise in fear-mongering.

Obama's justification for remaining in a church whose pastor inveighs against the white establishment is tepid and rather lame. He describes Mr. Wright as being like "an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with." This is not terribly comforting. You are free to choose your pastor and church, not your uncle.

Despite ample evidence of his histrionics and racist sermonizing, the fact that most mainstream media journalists accepted Obama's "crazy uncle" explanation and decided to look no further into his close association with Mr. Wright demonstrates just how much they were in the tank for Barack Obama.

In a YouTube age however, it is a story that can no longer be ignored.

Jeremiah Wright was wrong; it's not America's, but the Democratic Party's chickens that have come home to roost.