Locking the barn door after the horse has got out

I found this over on American Thinker:

There seems to be an epidemic of scrubbing going on in Chicago, as Barack Obama's church joins the Barack Obama campaign in deep-sixing embarrassing website postings. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has done the hard work of digging up cached versions in both cases to illustrate the Orwellian memory hole tactics of the candidate and his spiritual community.

The Trinity United Community Church is eliminating some of the more embarrassing rhetoric about Black Values and its own "concepts."

S&L has the before-and-after comparison. See for yourself here what has been airbrushed away. How stupid do they think the public are?

Seeing as how they are political leftists they think that the public is very stupid indeed.

Sometimes in a political campaign there is an event, an incident or a revelation which serves as a pivot point around which the trajectory of the entire election can change. One pivot point occurred in a Democratic debate in which Hillary Clinton collapsed into incoherence when asked if she supported then NY governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.

She simply could not give a straight answer but instead bounced around seeming to change her position several times within a single sentence.

Everyone expected that she would have a few bad days because of the incident but would then find a way to recover. Instead her campaign began to decline until she finds herself behind in pledged delegates, states won and popular vote totals.

This past couple of weeks has seen the campaign of Barack Obama encounter what seems to be another pivot point. Revelations of what his long-time pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has been preaching in his large Chicago church have shocked and repelled large numbers of voters. The damage caused by the revelations has been so great that Obama has lost his lead in national polls and now trails Clinton.

The situation in the head to head polls has also reversed itself. Obama was shown to be beating McCain while McCain was beating Hillary. Now McCain beats Obama and Hillary beats McCain.

Whether Obama will have better luck recovering from this disaster than Clinton had after her meltdown on drivers licenses for illegals remains to be seen. Right not it does not seem to be going well for Mr. Obama. The controversy does not seem to be going away, rather it appears to be growing. Obama's defenders even seem to be making matters worse.

Donna Brazile described Mr. Wright as actually being "moderate" when compared to many other black ministers and the Obama campaign was forced to admit that Sen. Dick Durban's claim that Mr. Wright's controversial statements were made before Mr. Obama was even a member of that church was false.

When Ms. Brazile's statement is placed alongside the rapidity with which other black ministers came forward to defend Mr. Wright and considered in the light of the article in Tuesday's Asia Times which delves into the theological sewer of black liberation theology Obama's "Preachergate" scandal threatens to not only sink his candidacy but to cause the non-black public to begin to cast a searching eye at other black politicians as well.

It is impossible at this time to determine if Obama's difficulties have imparted sufficient delta-v to the overall race to put either John McCain or Hillary Clinton in the White House. Everything that has happened to date will only cause blacks to cleave to Mr. Obama more fiercely. To the average black person in America pastor Wright is only saying what it self evidently true. To say that Obama is not worthy because he may believe those things too is to say that most blacks are unworthy.

As for the young white people who make up the bulk of Obama's support it is doubtful if they will care very much what kind of sermons their candidate's former pastor (Wright has recently retired) was given to preaching. After all the received wisdom of the left, and Obama's supporters are people of the left, is that blacks cannot be racist.

The deciding factor is going to be working class white men. White working class men have been tending to identify themselves as Democrat rather than Republican in greater numbers over the past few years. They have also been telling poll takers that they wish for the next president to be a Democrat. However they simply do not like Hillary Clinton. Many of them saw Obama as the answer but that is in jeopardy now.

As for McCain his financial difficulties have been keeping him out of the limelight of late. This could turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to him. After all when you enemies are fighting among themselves the best thing you can do is stand back and let them.