the big media people dig this hole for themselves.  "Why didn't Obama do this sooner?  Wright has been saying this stuff all along, so why didn't Obama repudiate him with this language sooner?"

Which, I am pretty sure, is going to do no more than reveal the massive disconnect between the major media pundits and the population of America.

In terms of the way recent events with Obama and Wright look on TV, it looks as though Obama tried to stick up for Wright and Wright took advantage of him.  The point is: Everyone, everyone, has had the experience of sticking up for someone who then lets them down.  Obama's experience here is the easiest to relate to thing in the world.

And in a situation like that, people who demand in shrill voices to know why you didn't dump the person sooner just look very, very small.