I think the grandmother button is a pure fallacy. I don't think he threw his grandmother under the bus!!

As for Rev. Wright, it seems to me he had a fair and open opportunity to join the side of reasoned perspective, and chose to stick with his provincial hot-headed stance in a way that was directly harmful to Obama's campaign and repute. Obama did not throw him overboard gratuitously; he fired him, figuratively, for what was essentially a betrayal.

It may well be that Jeremiah was only sticking to his melodramatic guns, but he could have done so in fifteen different ways, and the one he chose was to bitch-slap Obama publicly.

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