Letters to the Editor
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The "Pastor Disaster"
Kamiya is so extreme in his views that he cannot fathom why this whole event is the stuff that gets people unelected or unelectable real fast. Eliot Sptizer has a better chance of bouncing back than Obama does because the average person finds Sptizer's problems amusing while they view Wright as downright scary. Even Nancy Pelosi puts distance between herself and the "hate America first" crowd because she knows this stuff is toxic outside a very narrow audience, certainly not for general consumption. The bottom-line is the "pastor disaster" is causing the "chickens to come home" on Obama's campaign. Obama needs to throw himself at the mercy of the electorate because no amount of spin is going to make this go away anytime soon. It's one thing to give a speech at Bob Jones Univ (a big yawn) or even start a war, but to be associated with Wright like Obama was (20 years and counting) is some serious misjudgement for one seeking national office. Wright's style was to combine selective passages from the Bible to promote black separatism or "black liberation theology" much in the same way that others once did to justify slavery or the Inquisition. I estimate Obama will limp across the finish line and win the democratic nod but could very well get hammered in the fall.
By the way, who coined the "pastor disaster"? It wasn't me.