Where Wright Went Wrong

I guess all the whooptey-doo over Reverend Wright is not going away so I might as well weigh in.
Woe is he who plays with politics. Obama made one giant tactical miscalculation if he thought Reverend Wright gave a hoot about what anyone thinks but himself. You have to give him credit for eschewing the apparently overwhelming lure of all things politic; this has to take a very strong person. Strong people are obviously the types attracted to political office--deluding themselves that it is not the meek who shall inherit the earth. Many good and strong people have been unable to resist the lure of political office and its offer of power, most often at their own peril. Wright, though, has made the Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's of the world look like fools for their inability to resist that temptation as those Reverends tried the political route and met a huge roadblock.
What Wright knows better than them is that in politics you are absolutely unable to ever tell the truth--at least the truth as you may personally interpret it. Wright is wedded to his version of the truth and is totally and completely unapologetic about it. Obama, on the other hand, is caught having to rewrite the truth in order to try and remain in the game. Wright's truth seems to be winning out. Although people are concerned about the economy and costs and the war they are all talking about Wright.
Watching the analysts try and rationalize Wright's views into a message that can in any logical way be dealt with in front of the national body politic is like watching Bill Clinton try and explain how he did not have sex with that woman. It is strained at best and pretty much internally illogical.
In the end Obama's downfall will likely be attributed to Wright. Which brings me to where Wright went wrong. Rather than make any progress on the issues with which Wright has such fortitude to stand up and fight for with all his might, he is actually setting up more roadblocks. I suspect at his age it is not a job security thing to cause him to be greedily seeking to maintain the status quo. The real problem is he is so embedded in his own vitriol he has failed to put it into the context of the bigger picture. His own blindered perspective therefore prohibits him from making the progress he so desperately laments is being withheld.
As human beings we must be able to understand and sympathize with the position of another in order to allow our own attitude to be adjusted enough to be able to live together in harmony with those who are not exactly like us. It works both directions. That ain't gonna happen in Wright's world.
Ironically, he may be keeping it from happening in Obama's as well. But if truth be told....