Interesting to see how the ideological left hates the mainstream media as much as the ideological right. Being of the latter I’m trying to understand your perspective here, and why you think Obama is being victimized.

First of all, the double-standard argument just doesn’t hold water. I would consider Rev. Wright something of a racist, as I do his Black liberation theology. Everything about his worldview is informed by race. I don’t think he’s a bad guy, and I’m sure he’s done a lot of good, but most Americans can relate to King’s “I Have a Dream Speach” because most people would prefer to judge a person by the content of their character. Whether we do all the time is another matter, but America circa 1960 is a very different place from America 2008.

It’s impossible to completely analogize here, but if a Republican presidential candidate had gone to a church for 20 years that preached some kind of white supremacy, he or she wouldn’t have a chance. For gosh sakes, Sen. George Allen called somebody “Macaca” and his political career was over. Talk about a double standard.

The problem with Obama, other than he’s a liberal of the far left variety, is that while proclaiming to want to be the post-racial candidate (I believe he wants that) he spends 20 years at a church where race is all encompassing. At the least he appears disingenuous, because it’s plausible to believe that he went to that church solely to further his political career. If he doesn’t buy into Black liberation theology, how can he sit in the pew for that long? I’m a Christian of the Reformed perspective, and I could never go to a Baptist fundamentalist church. Don’t like their theology and their puritanical lifestyle.

One last thing, rage and hostility never help anyone. Maybe for a moment, or a short while, but to see reality continuously through it’s prism is unhealthy at best and deleterious at worst.