As Andrew Sullivan just wrote:

Isn't it a relief, by the way, for the MSM to have a presidential campaign in which no issues are actually discussed? This Wright-stuff is amazing to me. It's all the MSM seems to care about. Even coverage of McCain is now about his attitude toward an unhinged black pastor from Chicago. Hey: it beats discussing war, debt, the economy, torture, and terrorism. Because it enables America to return to the classic boomer racial-cultural wars that are all the MSM truly knows how to cover. There's nothing to be done right now but to duck and cover. And emerge when actual questions of actual salience emerge.

I suppose the MSM that Sullivan refers to can now include blogs such as TPM.

I'm going to make a counterintuitive prediction. I predict that the gap between Obama and Clinton will be even greater after this ad is shown.

And das2003? The media is lowering itself to new lows with the coverage of Wright. And political blogs are doing their share to trivialize an election.

Seriously, Greg, Josh, and Eric: Is Wright going to have an impact on the daily lives of American? Will he get us out of Iraq sooner? Will Wright address the health care issue in this country? The mortage meltdown? Any of those things? What's that? Wright isn't running?

Coulda fooled me.

The ultimate effect of all this wall-to-wall Wright will be to bore the pants off everybody and insure that Wright is a total non-issue in the general.

It is time for the Republican-controlled Media to give this Wright controversy some fairness and enquire of Hillary Clinton and her surrogates the following:

Is it true that, (1) Hillary surrogate, Congresswoman Shiela Jackson Lee, is also a devotee of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright; that he's been preaching at her home church, where she is actively involved, annually for the past 15 years and has an open invitation to return, and, that she sat in the pews for his visits and did not bat an eye?

Is it true that (2) Hillary surrogate, Rev. Marcia Dyson was not only a longtime member of Trinity United Church of Christ but also still considers Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright her pastor? That Rev. Marcia Dyson's seminary education, in part, was sponsored by Trinity UCC and encouraged by Rev. Wright? And was it not at Trinity were she first met her husband, Rev. Dr. Michael Dyson, who's been very vocal in his defense of Rev. Wright.?

And, lastly of Hillary Clinton, that if Rev. Wright would not have been her Pastor, then why did she and Bill when going through Impeachment, turn to Rev. Wright for Prayer and Support and invite him to the White House? These things should be asked and answered.

And, finally, why would Republican-controlled Media give a "retired" Rev. Wright all this attention and air time, if not to try to destroy Barack Obama! Their true Fear! That is why Republican-controlled media and talking heads are building up Hillary, tearing down Obama, while McCain courts African-Americans that Clintons have ailenated by their "kitchen sink strategy, hoping all the while that she will become Democratic nominee, then unleash "arsenol" of weapons they have against her. Something they have been planning for years!

Hillary's people aren't going to go near the issue of Wright's reemergence. It would only further alienate black voters. It would also align her with the Republicans in NC, not a smart move.

"However, the ad will probably not be shown too extensively -- Woodcox said the ad buy will only be between $10,000 and $20,000."

Does that matter? It already got shown all over the internet, in news stories about the ad, over and over, right? Actually running it as an ad seems almost redundant at this point.

A tactical thought: If McCain fails to stop this, might that provide some cover for Obama to forgo public funding? He has previously suggested that his willingness to forgo public funding hinges on the a general agreement that would include 3rd party ads. If McCain demonstrates that he cannot or will not rein in 3rd parties, that offers Obama a pretty good excuse for Obama to turn down public funding.

Come on.

No one has done more for the North Carolina GOP than Barack Obama.

tactical thought: If McCain fails to stop this, might that provide some cover for Obama to forgo public funding?

The ad doesn't worry me at all. It's a pretty laughable ad. Anyone who is persuaded that these two Dem. candidates in NC are responsible for or should answer for some comments of Obama's former pastor weren't going to be voting Democrat anyway.

You know, I realize that is utterly counter intuitive (and maybe a little crazy), but given the excellent way that Wright has carried himself throughout his life-long ministry and throughout this recent semi-media blitz, I think it would be interesting to do a series of "The real Rev. Wright" ad. After all, some of the concerns of Trinity UCC and Wright's ministry are the undergirding of Obama's desire to serve the ENTIRE country as president. I think that Wright could be "flipped" and turned into an asset. Ironically, if done well, I even think it could help Obama with the working class folks he has recently tried to court. Transform with the truth.

General Murtha? Did John get a promotion or is it a family member? By the way, it's "corps" - correct spelling also being a sign of respect. And please, I see nothing in Wright that comes anywhere close to Oswald. Semper Fi. (ps - your picture could use a little PT).

Lots of denial here. Like "this issue is going nowhere". "The Wright story is a dead-end". Today, a national poll has shown that Obama has lost 7 points to Hillary in less than 1 week. It will be interesting to see Friday's Indiana poll.