The roiling media-orgy surrounding Barack Obama’s pastor, Reverend Wright, will ultimately yield great benefit to Mr. Obama’s campaign. Why?
The controversy draws significant attention to the fact that Senator Obama is Christian. Some of the less scrupulous portions of American society have been trying to put the notion that Obama practices Islam into the heads of bigots everywhere.
This claim, however spurious as it may sound to anyone familiar with either the Senator or Islam as it is actually practiced, has remained a thorn in Obama’s side throughout this (exceedingly long) electoral season. However, today, to tune into almost any form of news media is to be exposed to the following two facts:
- Obama has a pastor who makes impassioned, controversial sermons.
- Obama has a pastor.
It doesn’t take a great deal of mental capacity to leap to the third fact that would round out that list. “Ergo, Obama, being a person who has a pastor, is probably a Christian.”
I’d wager that the Obama campaign’s worries about misplaced anti-Muslim shadow bigotry are bound to diminish from here onwards, thanks to the Wright controversy.
