Oh, that Reverend Wright!?! Updated

News today that U.S. Senator Barack Obama has denounced reiterations, er, statements made by Reverend Jeremiah Wright yesterday. (here) Obama is denouncing the (previous but persistent) statements as being "divisive and destructive" . . . tell us about it, Senator.

It seems that the final straw may have been the Reverend's "politician" swipe. Apparently Wright doesn't realize that Obama is a new kind of leader . . . not a politician.

As for Obama's stance today, better late than never, I guess.


Update: I'm sorry, but I'm incredulous. I just watched Obama's statement concerning his Reverend's Monday TV appearance. If Obama has "spent [his] entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different types of people," then he must have been sleeping in church his entire adult life. As I said over at Music City Bloggers, this may go down in (political) history as Obama's Brother Wright* moment.