Yes, some say I should have done something about Pastor Wright before I started the campaign for President. Same say it’s easier to put the past behind us early in a campaign. I did that when I acknowledged taking drugs in college.
Some things are just better off as old news.
I expected Pastor Wright’s incendiary ways to become a problem long ago. It didn’t happen. That tells you how much attention the mainstream media pays to the details when they follow a candidate they like. Even Fox News didn’t catch on to the Wright issue until after it was broken by CNN.
Brit Hume couldn’t spell M-o-n-i-c-a L-e-w-i-n-s-k-y if she was tugging on his zipper.
What was important in this campaign was to build up a strong presence in a number of states before Pastor Wright’s expletives hit the fan, so to speak. By the time his racist comments became public fodder and hit the Top 10 on YouTube, my plan was in place.
I call it my ‘We shall overcome!’ speech. I worked on it for months, just waiting for the day when race became my issue, and not Bill Clinton’s issue. A good speech is not born, it is made, constructed, remodeled, polished, and lighted with enlightenment. People forget the bad when they hear good. I told them the good. They forgot the bad.
I have overcome. Again.
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