Riginslinger, if you were a politician in the same position as Barack Obama you would have done the same thing. You would have severed your relationship with Reverend Wright when it became absolutely politically necessary to do so, and probably not until then. Obama was forced by the political circumstances and by Wright's own behaviour to disown Wright. You would have not, however, have severed your relationship with your grandmother over some stuff she said many, many years ago when you were a kid, because:

1. It would be completely asinine to do so. One recognizes in life that one's relatives are not perfect beings, and one still loves them anyway.

2. It would not be politically expedient to do so. Quite the opposite, in fact, it would be politically disastrous, and quite rightly so. There is no reason why Obama should repudiate his own grandmother, rather he should have compassion for her, and he obviously does.

You are criticizing Obama, therefore, over behaviour which you would not criticize someone else for if he were running against Obama. Why? Because you don't like Obama. Be realistic, man. Your prejudice (against Obama, not against Blacks) is causing you to see his actions in the worst possible light every time, and I doubt that it would matter what he did...you'd still see it that way.

He did not throw his grandmother under any bus. He pointed out that, like other people, she was not perfect. She had some prejudices. He pointed out that he had had to deal with some racial prejudice in his own family, among people he loved dearly...and so do most of us. That's life. People need to face such things at some point, not sweep them under the rug and pretend they don't exist.