Barack Obama throws Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus.

After Rev. Jeremiah Wright made several appearances over the weekend, Obama suddenly found the courage to disown the 'crazy uncle' that he 'could no more disown than he could disown the black community.'

Wright said, among other things:

You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.

That fits right in line with what Wright said in a speech at his church.

We say that God will bless the shock and awe as we take over unilaterally another country, calling it a coalition because we got three days from Australia going against the United Nations, going against the majority of Christians, Muslims and Jews throughout the world, making a preemptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see how the same thing we are doing is the same thing Al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

So, clearly, this is the sort of thing he says -- and preached from the pulpit -- a lot.

He went on to defend Louis Farrakhan, saying:

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this colour."

As an aside, I'm not entirely certain but I a good argument could be made that either his parents or God made him that 'colour'. Would that make both God and his parents his enemies ... ?

He then went on to say (as we previously pointed out) that Obama hadn't actually denounced himself from Wright or his statements:

"Politicians say what they say and do what they do because of electability. He has to distance himself because he's a politician ... Whether he gets elected or not, I'm still going to have to be answerable to God."

In other words, "Barack 'distanced' himself from me because politics demanded it. He still believes every word I've said and his refusal to denounce my statements proves it."

Holding a press conference to attempt to do the damage Wright piled onto his campaign during his weekend appearances with Bill Moyers, at the NAACP meeting in Detroit, and at the National Press Club over the weekend, Barack said of Wright:

"I’m outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle. The person that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate. I believe they do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church. They certainly don’t portray mine. If he considers this political posturing, then he doesn’t know me very well. And I don’t know him well either."

Uh, maybe it's just me, but if Wright's comments yesterday were 'not only divisive and destructive, but end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate', I guess I can't see how they're all that much different than what he's been saying for the 20 years Barack has known him ...

On the Wright's idea that the U.S. government created AIDS to kill blacks, Obama said:

"Ridiculous proposition."

On Wright's statement that American soldiers were the same as al-Qaeda:

"They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. They should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing clearly and unequivocally here today."

There are a couple of things that struck me about the press conference.

First, Barack's statements seem to imply that it isn't the same recycled "hate America" garbage that Rev. Wright spewed during his weekend appearances that finally got Barack mad, it was his insults against Barack himself.

Second, Barack's statement that he Wright's appearances over the weekend, saying that same recycled crap, was 'not the person that I'd come to know over 20 years' and that it 'shocked' and 'suprised' him should tell you everything you need to know about Barack's judgment.