I honestly was not even going to write anything about this, but each day the media does not want to cover significant issues to the American people like ohhh I don’t know the country’s economic problems, natural disasters in the state of Georgia, March Madness selections, or construction accidents in New York City, I have to watch news channels discuss the sermons of Senator Barack Obama’s pastor Reverend Jeremy Wright and his inflammatory and idiotic comments. I do believe that Senator Obama to a certain degree owes a certain portion of his fan base and many of the American people a personal explanation of this situation and his campaign has to create major damage control.

It is a shame because I do wish politics and also elections would get beyond these trivial instances of who knows who, who associates with what organization, what person supports what candidate and what they said. It is really a waste. The media really should move beyond these trivial matters. I do not really care personally what any individual other than an actual candidate says unless they represent the candidate officially or work for the candidate’s campaign. This is getting really old and annoying even. It has happened to all the presidential candidates, and I think its just a waste of time and is just old politics, and hopefully this country and even this election can move beyond it.

Senator Obama happens to be getting hit pretty hard by this guilt by association, but this should blow over once he speaks on it more directly or the media gets bored. Although, unless something politically exciting doesn’t happen, he could get bogged down with this for weeks all the way up until the Pennsylvania primary. The Clinton team is probably glad that there is something finally sticking to Obama.

Before this he was like the Man of Steel and political bullets were just bouncing off of him left and right. This situation is making him seem more like Shaq in the movie Steel, slow and off his game. I can just image Senator Obama saying, “CAAAAAAN YOOOOU DIG IT?”, and having a Howard Dean moment in Pennsylvania. Having to address his relationship with his pastor and about race in general will hurt his campaign’s momentum and theme a little. Not with his general base, but those demographics he was trying to reach who were not voting for him and who he was trying to court for the general election.

He has done excellent not getting engaged in the race debate, and being the non black, black candidate. I am sure this won’t be his “macaca” moment, but it can start to develop chinks in the man of steel’s armor.

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