It's fascinating to watch the cable news talking heads try to digest this one.

After virtually equating Geraldine Ferraro's clumsy points on race with hate crimes, they are now stumbling to excuse Pastor Wright and Obama, terming them innocuous.

The "comments are taken out of context" I heard CNN's Jeffrey Toobin say this afternoon. Exactly what context makes, "The government created the HIV virus to kill blacks," and "America's bombing of Hiroshima" excuses the 9/11 terrorsit attacks, acceptable? And did the CNN talking head mean that his own network took them out of context? If only Toobin were so candid.

I haven't heard such hate-filed, deluded racist diatribes since Lester Maddox. Even Malcolm X came to abandon this style of rhetoric.

The most frightening part of the video (particularly the longer versions on YouTube, v.s. the excerpted ones on ABC and Fox) is to see the GenY types chanting and screaming in affirmation of Wright's hate speech. Don't dismiss this as the harmless rantings of an old eccentric. His pulpit reaches 8,000 parishoners.

As for Obama, he made up excuses for Wright's racist rants, before he said he had never heard about the comments. Backwards, much?

Continuing to believe in Obama now includes believing that he went to that church for about 25 years without ever witnessing or even hearing that Wright was making these comments.

If you buy that, I've got some Bear Stearns stock to sell you.

Reading the title, I thought this was another article about Obama's Pastor Wright.

One needn't go to the middle east to find rabid anti-Americanism.

His speech sounds great.

Too bad that is not how he runs his campaign. Sen. Obama has run a negative campaign from day one.

Team Obama has repeatedly smeared the Clintons as racist, implied that Sen. Edwards is a corrupt liar for not controlling third-party 527s, and now that he is leading in delegates, Obama wants to be above it all. He wants the results of his team's dirty work, without taking getting his own hands dirty. He wants "plausible deniability".

Does Obama also denounce his campaign's tactics including?:

* Claiming Sen. Clinton dismissed Martin Luther King's work?

* His Campaign Manager stating on CNN that "Clinton didn't cry for Katrina?"

* His supporter on CNN stating, "Clinton said states with black voters don't count".

* His use of a 527 in Nevada to run Spanish language radio ads stating, "Clinton abandoned our people."

* The direct mail piece Obama used in California that mimics the insurance industry's earlier attacks on universal health care?

Words do matter, when they are backed by actions.

Agreed. ABC TVs report was repugnant.

Given the dirty campaign that Sen. Obama and his team have run against Sen. Clinton, he deserves what he gets.

The FBI mole's testimony on Rezko and Obama, his support of Wright's racist rants, the Exelon pay off .. all fair game. The gloves will be off.

So many of these comments simply reflect the hate that Wright projected. It is hard to believe in Obama's "new politics" when his supporters simply project old-fashioned hatred. The irony is how self-destructive this is. The incredible levels of violence in inner-city African-American communities is a cancer destroying lives. Wright's hate speech simply fuels that self-destructive hatred. Obama failed to address that, looking only at his own, short-term interest. And the posters here, so many just vent more hate ... Clinton is evil, Clinton is after Obama's passport, Clinton had a face lift, I don't like her pant suit .... so much venom and so little thought.

So little humanity.

Everything becomes obvious in the rear-view mirror.

There should be no super delegates, since if they use their supposed expertise that is seen to over-rule the common man. So, why bother if you can't even break a possible tie?

Caucuses are not remotely democratic, witness the ability of Obama supporters to overrule the majority of voters in Texas, by hanging around until late at night and shouting louder.

Winning almost every large, critical state is of no value if you can't win caucuses.

Pandering to Iowa has had profoundly negative impacts on the average American worker, jacking up the price of food to subsidize the useless folly of corn-based ethanol.

The Democratic party is so gullible that it would rather self-destruct than admit the Republican party had outmaneuvered it and, once again, disenfranchised Florida voters.

So, the Democratic party has three choices in the future (this primary being an inconclusive disaster) either A) do away with voting and go back to the smoke-filled rooms that produced FDR or B) have one national primary vote, if you truly believe in democracy or C) stick with what you have already because you prefer the entertainment of this soap opera to actually being able to make a practical decision.

IMHO the single most important issue in this election was universal health care. I say "was" because this was the, singular opportunity for the Democratic Party to accomplish this goal, and start bringing American health care into the 21st century. Nothing has more impact on our health, and on our finances.

(You could certainly argue for Iraq, but I believe that has become moot; every candidate, even McCain will pull us out gradually in 18 months. We missed the window to do better.)

Then Obama saboraged our chance because "mandates" didn't poll well, and instead proposed a system that is nonsensical and rewards people for not getting insurance, i.e. a system works only in the polls.

Truly sad.

Obama looks more like Bush buying socks in a super store more than Dukakis in a tank.

What would Pastor Wright say about this candid, honkie moment? :)