If people want to believe that Obama himself is running around despising his own mother among all the other "white' people because he goes to a church where a few particularly incindiary sound bites from the preacher were publicized then they are going to be predisposed not to trust Obama anyway.

We can fault him all we like for not recognizing that Wright would be a liability. But Obama has done the right thing. He has not repudiated the importance of his relationship with Mr. Wright, but has made it clear that he does not share all of Mr. Wright's political beliefs.