Lionel Chetwind, Thomas Sowell, and Marty Peretz offer perspectives on Barack Obama’s speech about his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who apparently had no more personal reason for hostility to America than Obama himself.
Perhaps the most insightful reaction I have heard to Obama’s speech, however, and the one that may portend most for his prospects in Pennsylvania, comes from a bar patron in Philadelphia, who summarized the speech as follows: “My pastor’s crazy—and it’s your fault!”