Except I'm not a musician.

Getting away from the same ole Peace/Amos character assassination gambit...

The surrogate issue.

Rev Wright has been functioning as a powerful surrogate for Obama for a long time, through many elections he has been in.

Here is what is damning for Obama--he didn't denounce Wright's remarks and take him off the campaign advisory committee until he was forced to do so by events that put him on the defensive last week.

Voters will see that plain as day.

Also damning for Obama--he didn't denounce the person of Rezko or Wright. He is still saying both are his friends, and he won't denounce them personally.

That stubbornness, which is rooted in his own bad judgments, could kill his candidacy. Only time can tell us that.

As to Clinton's surrogate problem this week, Ferraro--they played it brilliantly, and I think they may have cynically set the whole thing up to innoculate Clinton from surrogate problems like Obama's.

Clinton appeared to be taking the high road, by telling her aides (sic) not to go after the Wright story. Whether she has put the Rezko matter off-limits too will remain to be seen.

It is easy for her to break ties w/Ferraro, denounce the surrogate race baiting, and come out smelling like a rose.

In the end, nothing that Ferraro said can hurt Clinton in the general, the way that the Wright videos, combined w/videos of Michelle Obama's "for the first time in my adult life..." quotes, and the Rezko case can hurt Obama. He is much more vulnerable going into this week than Clinton is, IMO.