Time for the Reverend Wright to be thrown under the bus

The time has come for Barack Obama to throw the Rev. Wright under the bus. Unless he does so the presidential nomination is out of the question for him.

The Reverend has found himself in front of a pulpit with a national spotlight shining on it and he is not going to walk away from it. Rev. Wright likes the attention, seems to relish it, and will continue to spout off until the cameras are no longer pointed at him, which doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon.

The problem for Obama is that a majority of Americans either don't like or don't agree with what Rev. Wright says about many issues, such as the US government being responsible for the AIDS virus, and many sure don't like it when he embraces the likes of a Louis Farrakhan.

Of course, when people criticize the good reverend, it's because the critics are part of a "dominant culture" that misunderstands the black church, and that criticism of his sermons is a criticism of the black church. So says the reverend himself.

Just what exactly is the "back church?" Do all black Americans attend only one church? Do not black Americans attend churches of all kinds throughout America? Are there not black Catholics and Episcopalians and Presbyterians and on and on?

What Rev. Wright is doing and saying now on his publicity/ego trip is causing Obama supporters, such as myself, to seriously question why Obama would have spent twenty years in the church of a pastor who espouses the theories he does.

Two things are particularly troubling about Rev. Wright. He is evasive and dismissive when asked to directly comment on certain things, such as what exactly he meant when he said "the chickens are coming home to roost" in reference to the 9/11 attacks. Worse, if Obama is elected, Rev. Wright says, "I'm coming after you." This guy has no intention of going away.

I want Rev. Wright nowhere near the White House. If he attains the nomination, I will not vote for Obama unless he completely and utterly denounces the reverend and his beliefs. Of course, I don't think Obama will get the nomination without denouncing Wright first.

Meanwhile, John McCain happily goes about his business.