Letters to the Editor
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Same as it ever was
Wright is hurting Barack[?] [that's an excuse for those who don't want to point out the (usual) elephant in the room]; social reality is hurting Barack. Interestingly enough, there's Louis Bayard's trenchant article on the Flag "spearing" of Teddy Landsmark by south boston Irish toughies, in the wake of Arthur Garrity's busing order as an accompanyment to Joan's column.
The problem is, as I've said before, Obama had to "draw to an inside straight" if he wanted to win the nomination and the presidency and that has not changed. Wright just provides the fig leaf alot of working class whites can use to justify their voting against Obama in a general election [should Obama get that far] and doing it against their interest is business as usual [those S. Boston toughs had, after all, an antecedant in the Scotch-Irish of the South who, again, as I never fail to point out here and elsewhere, voted/agitated against schools for their children and roads to get to them and the marketplace, in the wake of Reconstruction, if it meant having those children go to school with "negras."
Their latter-day counterparts, many from traditional chauvinistic households, would risk continual war, a draft, more regressive policies leading to Max Headroom rat-dining in abandoned parking lots and a woman/over the hill, possibly traumatised war hero as leader of the free world if it mean't keeping that "negra" out of the White House.