Originally Posted by Garth

I watched the whole speech and rather liked it. He was funny, and I was interested. From a religious standpoint, I thought he lined up with mainstream "white" Christian views under the surface but had a very different audience and a very different delivery method. It struck me as interesting that his overall message was that we are all equal. He kept repeating "different does not mean deficient." I liked it. I can see why Obama sat through the couple times when he went too far. I can also understand how Wright can go over the line sometimes.

Overall though, I though that this speech will give us all a better view into the themes of most of Wright's messages. I think that this could be a way for us to realize how the media has taken Wright out of context because right after I finished watching it on CNN I flipped over to Fox and was amazed at all of the horrible things that they were saying. They picked out bits that, out of context, sounded radical, but I had just heard them in context and recognized what they were doing.

Unfortunately I think the media will exaggerate some of the things he said, that were designed as jokes or examples and we will not hear the over-arching themes of his message.

I think this could help Obama, but it will hurt him because of personal biases or whatever.