Haven't you read the letters here? God forbid he had an affair with Joan Baez.

This is clearly sexist. Not the natural growing pains of an artist.

It's sexist. He feared Suze Rotolo, a powerful independent woman thus latched onto Baez.

No, really check out the letters here. Dylan was clearly an antagonistic, male chauvinist, sexist pig. Any excuses of being an artist or loving Joan Baez, or respecting her as a powerful independent figure in her own right are clearly undermined by his having a penis and her having a vagina.

The truth is if Bob Dylan were alive today he'd be eaten up for the establishment for being young, male and opinionated.

Either that or he'd be James Blunt, and largely ignored by the mainstream media for his genius. But then again Blunt actually served in a war and thus is much easier to dismiss as a genocidal, angry, male, raging, killer with rage issues. Despite his clearly being a genius.

Plus if Dylan were alive today he would not be a Baby Boomer and thus automatically inferior to that Baby Boomer generation that managed to be somewhere between 17 and 35 years of age (too broad a spread you say, NO WAY!) anywhere between 1955 and 1972.

So he would be automatically inferior.

And he might dare to vote for Barack Obama. No! God forbid. Clearly inferior.

But you all, fortunately were too dumb and ignorant to absorb that. So you did it automatically.

Way to go morons.

Don't worry TexasGirl, the Supreme Court got rid of the effective moratorium on the death penatly (whether lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment) so you can get back to killing those evil black men in your state immediately.

Oh cheers.

Here's what Obama himself had to say about Wright when he went on Fox with Chris Wallace today:

"Do you think Wright is just a victim here," Walllace asks Obama.

"No...people were legitimately offended. The fact that he is my former pastor makes it a legitimate political issue," Obama says. "I think it's also true that he was simplified and caricatured."

Obama denounces the specific comments again, but adds, "I go to church not to worship a pastor but to worship God." He also added that the church does things for poor people, and Wright isn't all bad.

However you Clinton supporters and Joan Walsh can't seem to get this through your head. It's a clear, rational, reasonable response that anyone with a working cognative process would be able to understand.

It's also the reason Wright hasn't sunk Obama no matter how much some of you (including Joan Walsh in her usual passive-aggressive manner) want him to. Now Obama might lose, I don't have a crystal ball. But Wright cleary HAS NOT BEEN and IS NOT the game-ending factor you thought he was. Sorry. Americans are smarter than that and they're clearly thinking (thank God) this time around.

If I thought you could cover the wonderful interview and responses Obama gave this morning without passively-aggressively trying to turn everything good he does against him by some poor excuse for a backhanded comment I would encourage you to cover it Joan Walsh.

But, alas, we all know that's not what we get here on Salon. It's all Clinton, all the time. And if it's about Obama and good, time to right some ridiculous article on "Obamaboys" throw some passive-aggressive critiques of Obama in there, and ever so lightly sprinkle just a little bit of race-baiting on top.

Sometimes we don't respond, because the illogic of (some) Clinton supporters and Joan is so stupifying as to render some of us speechless.

I don't even know where to begin. There are so many clear, reasoned arguments as to why this was ridiculous Joan.

Gwen Ifil put it best when they played the exert of Wright's interview back to her. She said, "So? He got it exactly right. He's a preacher, Barack Obama's a politician, they operate in separate realms. Is this news? Did any one not know Barack Obama was a politician? They're two totally separate things."

As earlier posters have pointed out the ever dimming line in the division between church and state (which we all know we have the radical, right-wing evangelicals to thank for) is equally disturbing.

People refuse to watch Wright in his entirety or even attempt to place his comments in context.

Clinton supporters are on here arguing about what's so wrong about Wright's statements is that "black people in Africa are enslaving other black people so stop blaming us."

They're also arguing about how "There are more smart people and more racists than there are idiots (thank god) left in this country." Okay, well I guess, whatever. Thank God for the racists. Whatever.

Joan's going around quoting, and channeling her Irish-American ancestors (hey I've got nohting against them) but when the heck did that ever become an issue?

I don't know. Maybe other people can actually continue arguing with this level of inanity. I can't. I'm sure they will. Eagerly awaiting Joan's next post Monday hopefully clarifying this. Perhaps it won't be simply another passive-aggressive attack on Obama, but given that all of her previous postings have been such, it's hard to imagine it being anything else.

I don't know.