Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters.

But why should a thinking black member of the working class want any truck with a Farrakhan fan or with a moral idiot who thinks that the drugs and disease in the black community are imposed by an outside conspiracy?

What can it be that has kept Obama in Wright's pews, and at Wright's mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations?

Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?

Mrs. Obama's 1985 thesis at Princeton

is "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community."

Michelle Obama announces that she's much influenced by the definition of black "separationism" offered by Stokely Carmichael

we should find out before it's too late to ask.