Jeremiah Wright is not as inconsequential as you might think. Without Wright, Obama would be the next POTUS. With Wright it is no longer a given that McCain absolutely, positively can't win.

If Obama doesn't win, we will see black America use it to validate their believe that beyond reasonable doubt America is racist.

I never thought the Dems (either Clinton or Obama) would have an easy road ahead in the General Election.

Unfortunately you make a valid point about Wright and the election. He hurts Obama a lot and it is naive to think that we won't be watching continuous Wright (and Michelle) Greatest Hits highlights - especially in OH, PA, TX, IN, TN, VA and FL.

A) You have beliefs in which you believe. ;^)

B) America is racist. Get over it. It ain't nothin' but a thing. It's better than it used to be and life is short.

C) What are we going to say about McCain's pastor who says that the anti-Christ is a gay Jew "just like Hitler"?

Look: fraysters of all colors are referring to a best-selling work by a black woman in order to make their points. When we say, "Waiting to Exhale," nobody even thinks about how impossible it was fifty years ago that a black woman's (!) novel would give root to a common idiom, much less a major motion picture. In my lifetime, people used to have to pay and get beat up and killed trying to vote, and last night a major political party elected a black guy not much older than I to be their nominee for President of these United States. Sure, some people aren't going to vote for him. Life is like that. Some people will blame Rev. Wright, some people will blame his color, some people will say they just don't like the cut of his jib. It's a free country. If he wins, he's going to win without them, by definition. And what I love is that, if he wins, he will win without calling them names or making them feel like they're not Americans, too. Pluralism: that's what change looks like.

Advn2rgirl - You got it! He will win without calling them names or making them feel like they're not Americans!

Sure, there have been supporters and surrogates who have done this - on both sides of this primary. But I believe, in my heart, that none of it was sanctioned or condoned by Obama. He consistently and continually avoided it.

Never, in all this time has he EVER brought up a single Clinton scandal or misstep. He joked, sure, about Annie Oakley and it was mostly at a time when he needed to "lighten up" -- I bet on a good day Hillary would even laugh at that.

But never was he angry, hateful or vindictive. Neither was she.

In his book, Audacity of Hope, he wrote that he came into this political world knowing that he might lose. And he wrote that he always remembers that losing is better than doing ANYTHING to win.

I believe that is at the heart of the change we will see.

Progress, pluralism, discourse - these are now applied to race in our country in ways they have NEVER been before!! It is so exciting! As a white woman, and someone who desperately WANTS to support this change, I cannot do it. But Barack Obama can! And I can support him!

You are awesome -- I love reading your posts!! And i hope you keep posting and writing!! I'd love to see you as a contributor at the XX Factor - you're very good!