Barack Obama and the Black Judas

Jeremiah Wright, despite a stubborn streak of lunacy, is clearly an intelligent and accomplished person, so it is fair to assume that he is deliberately sabotaging Barack Obama's campaign.

Some are saying his idiotic hyperventilation is just the result of a profound sense of narcissism. But there is more to it than that.

If Barack Obama was to be elected president of the United States, the Jeremy Wrights and Al Sharptons of America would be pushed off the front page, and have to go back to preaching about Jesus, and visiting sick parishioners in the hospital.

After all, when a brother is the Leader of the Free World, he is not only going to get more press than Al Sharpton and Jeremy Wright, but it is going to be a little difficult to blame everything on the man.

Al Sharpton has always been skeptical of the mulatto, not only because he derailed his plans to get mucho ego stroking and coin in another quixotic run for the White House, but more importantly because he considers Obama to be just another house nigga—like Colin Powell or Tiger Woods.

Today, he took his place in the tag team after the Reverend Wright put the odds-on-favorite Democratic nominee on the ropes.

Al Sharpton denounced Obama because he does not wish to join in his effort to shut down New York City, in protest over the verdict in the police shooting case.

Sharpton said he had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."

Obama attempted today to toss his pastor under the bus, but it was weak, and too little, too late. But perhaps there is really nothing he could do.

There are a lot of people in America who would not vote for an African-American under any circumstances. But there are a whole lot more who like to preface their remarks with the qualification “I am not a racist, but...” or "this has nothing to do with race..."

Wright's loud and obnoxious presence on the national stage, has given the “not racist but” folks the opportunity to dwell on this ad nauseum, all the while protesting that it has nothing to do with race.

I disagree with Barack Obama on a lot of issues. But the success of his candidacy truly was something that America, was rightly, very proud of.

It is too bad he had to be brought down in this way.

There is always a Judas.