Obama may mean what he says:

From: http://riggword.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/obama-seriously-flawed/

Obama may mean what he says:

In that case, just as he says “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community” we can no more separate what Obama says from his candidacy. I was around in the sixties. I saw the Watts riots close up, I heard the black panthers, I experienced the Democratic convention of 1968. What he says is no different. How we perceive it is. I would like to see our country growing away from such divisive rhetoric. What remains to be seen is if the Democratic party can survive and flourish through this storm. What is also in the future is what will happen as the Republican party looses seats in Congress and the Democrats fall apart from burden of Obama and Clinton.

Mark Steyn Has a great article on this subject:

Here is an excerpt from his article, “So Much for the ‘Post-Racial’ Candidate“:

“I’m sure,” said Barack Obama in that sonorous baritone that makes his drive-thru order for a Big Mac, fries and strawberry shake sound profound, “many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.” “Well, yes. But not many of us have heard remarks from our pastors, priests or rabbis that are stark, staring, out-of-his-tree, flown-the-coop nuts.”

He went on to write:

Nonetheless, last week, Barack Obama told America: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”

What is the plain meaning of that sentence? That the paranoid racist ravings of Jeremiah Wright are now part of the established cultural discourse in African American life and thus must command our respect? Let us take the senator at his word when he says he chanced not to be present on AIDS Conspiracy Sunday, or God Damn America Sunday, or US of KKKA Sunday, or the Post-9/11 America-Had-It-Coming Memorial Service. A conventional pol would have said he was shocked, shocked to discover Afrocentric black liberation theology going on at his church. But Obama did something far more audacious: Instead of distancing himself from his pastor, he attempted to close the gap between Wright and the rest of the country, arguing, in effect, that the guy is not just his crazy uncle but America’s, too.