If the McCain campaign goes ahead and loses, as all the polls say it will, it will have missed a historic opportunity.
By declaring the rantings of Obama's 20-year pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, off limits--McCain will have effectively blown one of the prime issues available to discredit Obama as a future president. Wright is so far beyond the pale, and known to most Americans from all the spring's heavy TV play of his racist, incendiary sermons, that he is a legitimate issue. His tight ties with Muslims like Louis Farrakhan and Moamar Khadafi--as well as his replacement upon retirement by Obama friend, the Black Nationalist Otis Moss--would shock the sensibilities of a lot of Americans, if they were reminded.
At the very least, a 2008 version of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is needed, to replay the Wright tapes and remind voters of the truly radical ties Obama has. William Ayres is certainly a bad friend for Obama to have, but anyone under the age of 55 doesn't even know who he is. Ayres and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were violent terrorists in the anti-Vietnam War protest days and have refused to repent for their actions, but most voters in 2008 didn't live through that.
Letting Obama off the hook for his ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who conducted his wedding to Michelle and baptized his children, is missing a great opportunity. With all the videotapes around of Wright's rabid radicalism--the most famous of which was his rant God Damn America--Obama can only claim that he was a very poor church attender or that he slept through the sermons.
And as fiery as Wright is, that would defy credulity.
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