The Wright Stuff

Mitt Romney is on his rear after writing off the 47 percent of Americans who won't support him as layabouts who expect to live off the government (an attitude that drew a sharp rebuke from Scott Brown), President Obama's job approval numbers are up, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sent the voter ID law back to a lower court to look for proof that the law would not make it difficult in registering to vote.  So what might the far right do to hit the President where he lives? Joe Ricketts, an anti-Obama billionaire, might want to revive his plans to spend ten million dollars to remind folks that Obama went to a United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is known for his virulently anti-American sermons  Well, actually, he just decided to to that very thing. 

I thought at first that tying the President to the controversial Protestant minister would not work, because, after all, most Republicans think Obama is a Muslim. Besides, this issue was hashed out four years ago.  Then I remembered how many Republican voters already think Obama is a Nazi and a Communist, and how they manage to equate him with a "foreign" religion as well as with political philosophies that advocate atheism.  In other words, Republican voters already believe he's so many contradictory things at once, and they won't need much convincing to think that our "Muslim" President is also connected with a radical Christian preacher.  Republicans gave up on debunking logical flaws years ago.

Obama had better stay sharp. Romney still has time to recover in seven weeks, and wealthy Republican super-PACs are ready to dump a ton of money to do to Obama what Romney hasn't been able to do in nearly a year - that is, do him in.