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It's gut check time for white Americans


Obama's in trouble because Wright brings out our biases


A lot of whites freaked out by Wright

You can see the situation developing, and it doesn't look pretty from where I sit. Obama is likely going to lose the Indiana presidential primary, giving another huge lift to Hillary Clinton.


And then what?


Is the Democratic party going to take away the nomination that was almost in Obama's grasp, that remains almost in his grasp, mainly because a lot of white people are freaked out by Wright and what they have convinced themselves it means about Obama? That seems to be a growing possibility, which to my mind would be an even bigger disaster for Democrats than John McCain handing Obama his lunch in November.


So at the risk of repeating myself, let me repeat myself:


Barack Obama is not Jeremiah Wright.


We've never heard Obama say any of the things that got Wright in trouble because Obama doesn't believe those things.