About this Rev. Wright business....

Don't fool yourselves - John McCain and Hilary Clinton would both attend Trinity church this Sunday if they thought it would get them elected.
A couple of points. I think that it's so kind of CNN and Fox News to finally achieve a modicum of journalistic integrity and air the entire speeches of the Rev. Wright. I think that it's likely a coincidence that this controversial figure has a chance at hurting a major presidential candidate, and likely not the intended consequence of suddenly deciding to set aside sound byte journalism and air speeches and comments in full. It makes me wonder why now. Why not when John McCain gave the speech where he called for the U.S. Military to prepare to stay in Iraq for 100 years. Only heard a small sound byte of that speech. I wonder why that is? I only hope that these networks continue with their new found policy of allowing all figures with ties to the major presidential candidates to get equal and thorough airtime.
As far as Rev. Wright is concerned, I'm happy to hear him out. I'm a big boy, and while I do not have the education that he does, I have an ability that lacks in our society: the ability to listen and agree to disagree. The ability to recognize the difference between rhetoric, religion and racism. To understand that people from different backgrounds have different points of view. So it doesn't bother me when the Rev. says these things, and I'm not worried in the least that our next president, Barack Obama, will act on any of the Rev. Wrights theories.
To anyone out there that feels it is fair to base the entire viability of a candidate on their assumed religious beliefs, I would caution you to look closely at our own president, and the tenets of his religion. It is a fine and rare occasion that I agree with anything W has to say, and the largest problems I have with him and his policies are the ones where he drags his overbearing religious beliefs into our mainstream and into our government.
I'm a big believer in the separation of church and state, but I know many on the conservative right are not. My admonishment to them: Be careful what you wish for, the church you want representing your government may not always be YOUR church, suckers!