Note - I know that some of this has been brought up before, but obviously I don't think it's been dealt with.
In case you missed it:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Trinity UCC senior minister for 30+ years, said things that were stupid and offensive to some. To others, especially those who watched the videos of the whole thing, these comments were (1) accurate, (2) sensical and (3) taken out of context.
Sen. Barack Obama, his parishioner and front-runner for the Democratic nomination, denounced the words but not the man. He gave a speech on race in America entitled, "A More Perfect Union," which talked openly and honestly about race - something not really done before.
Pat Buchanan, who has never been elected to anything and is even on the outs with the Republican leadership, is a commentator for MSNBC and regularly spouts arch-conservative ideas that almost certainly are representative of about 10% of the US population.
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