You can't compare Wright to the KKK. He's never lynched or castrated a man or burned a cross on his lawn.

McCain Shared a stage with Hagee as Hagee endorsed him. Mrs. Clinton had Ferraro spue on for days while it was convenient to the campaign. If guilt by association is a disqualification then there is no one to vote for and certainly Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton are more complicit.

Obama said that he did not hear the comments you heard and that Wright never said anything racist in his presence. Obama's point that there are people like Rev Wright in every family of every race. I tend to agree with that. If you can't spot that person in your family, maybe its you.

Mr. Obama said that Rev. Wright said what he did because men of his generation are justifiably bitter. That may be so. I can't pretend to understand what they went though.

Older generations of people in my family said bad things about Catholics and the French. I will certainly denounce the bad things they said. I will not denounce them. Obama forgave his grandmother. Why not Rev. Wright? The speech may not have been enough. It may not have saved his campaign. But it was the right thing to do.

Guest, Guest, could not have been more wrong when she said he had no other choices. He had lots of choices. He made the brave on, he made the bold one, he made the right one.