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Obama is slated to give a "very important" speech on race in a few minutes.

I'm sorry, but there is nothing Obama can say which will change my opinion about Obama and his views on race in this country. Since he obviously agreed with his pastor's view for the past 20 years, and he was obviously cognizant enough of this pastor's controversial views to pull the pastor in question from his announcement ceremony, so he did know that this man had views that weren't popular and which would be dangerous to his campaign. Yet, this man made some of his most controversial statements years ago and Obama pleads ignorance even though this man was so close to him that he named a book after one of his sermons, that he brought him on as a chair on his campaign.

Add to this his wife Michelle's remarks, and Obama's own reluctance to address his pastor's statements, and its not hard to see what's going on here: Obama is being widely criticized as an empty-suit: who do you suppose will fill that suit if it makes it to the White House? The people around him will all take turns, I'm sure.

Anyway, one speech cannot erase a 20-year relationship. Obama remarked that he did not have religion until he found Rev. Wright's congregation where he felt "at-home." I think that speaks volumes, and anything Obama says today will be lip-service.


We'll see, and even so, I will listen to his speech. 

EDIT: I watched, then I reread the transcript. It was about what I expected. I wrote a lengthy analysis of my own in my personal journal.  If anyone needs a transcript of the speech, its here: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1260