Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 3:23 PM Pacific

Obama's Speech on Wright

In case you haven't seen it:

I just woke about twenty minutes ago (remember, I live in Las Vegas...) and I managed to watch this without any interference from the MSM filter. It's exactly what I was hoping Obama would say. Now I'm going to go read around out of (morbid?) curiosity to see what the press reaction has been but I know that on a personal level, I'm very satisfied.

And I do hope that the media -- and the Clinton and McCain campaigns -- allow us to move on from this. Barack Obama has made it clear the he is his own man. He is not Jeremiah Wright and Jeremiah Wright is not him.

The problems we face in this country are too great to play the kind of gotcha' politics that we have been through over the last five weeks. If there were any indication that Barack Obama himself was as divisive a figure as Jeremiah Wright, it would be a different story. But if that were true, we wouldn't have gotten to this moment in the first place.