The reason why yesterday's fiasco at the National Press Club is
so problematic for Obama is that it completely blows a hole in his
insistence that he somehow wasn't aware of Jeremiah Wright's most
incendiary statements until he saw the snippets on YouTube last
month. If Wright, given the opportunity to explain himself to
hundreds of reporters and a national television audience, could be
so hateful and utterly bizarre, can we really believe that in the
20 years worth of sermons Obama sat in on, Wright didn't go off the
rails even once? The problem for Obama is now one of credibility.
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