...and, btw, the idea that this is a slow-week news story is obtunded. Obama's viability comes from the idea that he's a Democrat Colin Powell, somebody whites can be comfortable voting for. And the fact that he sat still for Wright for 20 years is a big problem for that image. Might look like I'm quoting Steyn, who I rewrote after someone else put his comments in the article, but I wrote It turns out that the politics he thereby chose to associate himself with, and which were the foundation of his own entry into politics, are controversial... and is bound to get more controversial if and when he has to start...  competing for the center rather than the left wing of the electorate. You can't keep this out of his bio and deserve FA, and unless he loses to Clinton events are bound to overtake you anyway." before the overtaking took place.