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With regard to Jeffrey Lord's observations regarding Obama and the Bombmaker's Church -- specifically that "the United Church of Christ is going to prove to be a veritable field of political landmines for Obama"" -- a number of factors merit consideration.

Like a college sophomore who has procrastinated until the last day, then been forced to pull an all-nighter to get his term paper in on time, Sen. Obama attempted to make a virtue of necessity in hopes of sending the Rev. Jeremiah Wright cancer on his candidacy into remission. The speech he delivered in Philadelphia on March 18, read from "invisible" TelePrompter screens, was cleverly written, delivered with his accustomed rhetorical flourish, and sophomoric in its conception, perhaps born of his view that he can always "get over" on guilt-ridden, gullible Whitey of which there seems, to him at least, to be an endless supply.

The speech simply had to be clever.

On the one hand he seeks to attract Cry Baby Boom cohort now feverishly working to elect Hillary in an ex post facto -- and desperate -- attempt to erase the reckless, stupid 'legacy' of the first elected president ever to be [1] disbarred and [2] impeached for lying under oath, Mr. Cry Baby Boomer himself, Slick Willie. As the leading edge of a younger generation inexorably elbowing the post WWII cry babies out of their accustomed -- uncritical and ever flattering -- limelight, Sen. Obama has to be tactful as hell or risk losing the resentful, self-pitying Blame America First/Cry Baby Boomer vote altogether.

On the other hand, he had to continue to appeal to the very genuine desire of a great many Americans -- creating a bridge that would at long last transcend race, age and gender -- to come together according to the motto on our coinage, E PLURIBUS UNUM (from many, one) in the belief stated by our Founders that all men are indeed created equal. In aid of this difficult balancing task, it was necessary for Sen. Obama to trash his white grandmother, portraying her as a racist. It was also necessary for him to 'explain' Rev. Jeremiah Wright's hatred of America in a way that would elicit the sympathy of Whitey while not alienating Black church members.

It was, in short, a magnificent, but foolishly immature effort to 'get over'. Why immature? Because the strength of Sen. Obama's pitch has always been that he has the JUDGMENT to be president based on his cheap, sideline condemnation of our campaign in Iraq well before he was a United States Senator.

Sadly for Sen. Obama, his actions belie his fancy words. A MATURE man of seasoned judgment fit for the highest office in the land would not have wasted TWENTY YEARS deciding WHETHER to distance himself from a hateful, racially prejudiced bigot capable of bellowing GOD DAMN AMERICA from the pulpit of his church. In the context of the Presidential sweepstakes there is no excuse for putting a curse on America, no matter how nimble the rhetoric seeking to explain it away.

p>While most generous Americans can -- and probably will -- write off this blunder of a talented green horn to the folly of youth, this stumble will likely doom his candidacy this year. No wonder Hillary has that cat-that-ate-the-canary smile on her aging puss. The good news for Sen. Obama is that if Hillary loses to Sen. McCain, Obama will be around in four years, still in the prime of all his youthful vigor, to collect his chips and apply the lessons so painfully learned in 2008. br> -- Thomas Stuart br> Hawaii /p> p> DISENFRANCHISE ME

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