Rev. Jeremiah Wright

It seems like every time you turn around one of the three top contenders for the 2008 election is having to disavow someone, or correct someone in their campaign for something that’s been said. Last week it was Geraldine Ferraro for Hillary and this weekend it is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And Wright will prove to be the much bigger bomb shell.

The Chicago minister who delivered a fiery sermon about Sen. Hillary Clinton having an advantage over Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential race because she is white is no longer a part of the Obama campaign. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no longer serving on the African American Religious Leadership Committee, campaign sources told CNN.

In another sermon, Wright had said America had brought the September 11 attacks upon itself. Obama denounced some of Wright’s sermons on Friday, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “These are a series of incendiary statements that I can’t object to strongly enough.” He’s going to ahve to say more than that! and, he’s going to have to explain how he could sit under Wright for twenty years, have him officiate the marriage ceremony for he and Michelle, and not think something was amiss?

And, even though he has been a member of Trinity United for the past 20 years, Obama said he had never witnessed Wright making such statements. “Had I heard those statements in the church, I would have told Reverend Wright that I profoundly disagree with them,” Obama said, adding, “What I have been hearing and had been hearing in church was talk about Jesus and talk about faith and values and serving the poor.”

The sermons in question became the subject of scrutiny earlier this week after being highlighted in an ABC News report. At one December service, Wright argued Clinton’s road to the White House is considerably easier than Obama’s because of his skin color.

In his statement Friday, Obama said he had not personally heard the controversial sermons, espeically the “God Damn America” sermon.

“When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments,” Obama wrote. “But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.” Maybe he should have prayed harder back then.

Wonder what Obama thinks now! Isn’t that the real question?