While Sen. Obama has to explain what he knew and when he knew it about Wright's angry sermons, the Bush Family floats above its financial and political associations with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a South Korean theocrat who had denounced the United States as "Satan's harvest" and likened American women to "prostitutes."
In his angry sermons, Moon has gone further than saying "God-damn America" - as Wright did - to vowing to sweep aside American democracy and individualism as he builds a one-world state.
Once his plan to "swallow entire America" is complete, Moon told his followers in one sermon, there will be "some individuals who complain inside your stomach. However, they will be digested."
But Moon's hatred of America is not deemed news, in part, because Moon has financed the Washington Times since 1982 to the tune of more than $3 billion, according to former newspaper insider George Archibald.
Moon also has lavished many millions of dollars more to pay for conservative conferences and to bail out key right-wing figures when they have found themselves in financial distress, including Republican direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie and the late Jerry Falwell.
Plus, Moon has paid large speaking fees to former President George H.W. Bush - estimated in the millions of dollars - and has feted President George W. Bush's brother Neil at recent events for the Moon-sponsored Universal Peace Federation.
In 2004, thankful Republicans even gave Moon use of a room in the Senate Dirksen Office Building so he could be crowned the "King of Peace" in a ceremony that Moon's followers hailed as proof the U.S. government was bowing down to this new Messiah.
Charlie Black, John McCain's chief political advisor, helped arrange that event. I'll have more on that later.
The Polk Award-winning Parry, by the way, broke a big part of what became the Iran-Contra scandal. But he wasn't craven enough to fit in with the Washington beltway press.
Rock on.
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