Republicans should be crapping themselves right now.
This Wright controversy is the number one attack they will have against Obama this cycle. Forget Rezko, forget the "experience" question, forget the Hussein-Muslim stuff (which looks especially ridiculous now that Obama's church and pastor are headline news). Those are all loser issues for the Republicans.
Wright is the real deal -- the one bit of "dirt" that right wing operatives can dig up from Obama's squeaky clean background. You can hear them salivating, writing Obama off.
John Derbyshire
This is a serious candidate for the Presidency? Toast, toast.
But if this hit job was going to destroy Obama, it would be destroying him RIGHT NOW. Obama would already be done, with the clips fresh in people's minds. Swift-boat attacks are designed for the near term, designed to provoke a knee-jerk reaction that kicks a candidate right out of contention.
But Obama isn't going anywhere.
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