Rev. Moss, the new pastor at Sen. Obama’s Trinity Church, likens the media storm over Jeremiah Wright’s racist and anti-American remarks to a lynching and crucifixion; the right Reverend Wright takes the role of the Holy Man that was figuratively put on the cross by the contemporary American Romans, who in Wright’s previous formulation were simply the ancient counterparts of modern-day “whites.”

The Rev. Moss and his congregation fail to see that, being in America, they are fortunately free to preach, listen to, attend, or subsidize all the lunacy that Rev. Wright or his successors or ancillaries can dish out.

The issue, however, for 300 million other Americans who do not attend Trinity, is different, but simple –should we vote for the next President of the United States who, being forewarned, chooses to stick with such a congregation, and of whose sanctification of such venom by the very fact of his weekly presence in, and financial support to, Wright’s ministry, we know very little?

Once the mesmerized reaction to the speech among liberal elites calms down, Obama’s team will grasp the various problems their candidate has created that won’t go away. For the next 30 Sundays until election time, the press will watch and wait to see whether the Obamas attend their normal services at Trinity and what is said; or should they — as this Sunday — not attend, what was said in their absence.

Rev. Moss’s interviews and sermons concerning Wright suggest that he is in complete agreement with his former pastor’s views, and will continue to promulgate them, albeit perhaps with less profanity and slander. And that too will pose a problem for Obama — after just assuring the nation that (a) he finds Wright’s speech “controversial” and some of it “unacceptable”, he will remain loyal to his church that (b) not only finds Wright perfectly acceptable and hardly controversial, but feels America’s reaction to him was a lynching and crucifixion.

To what degree all this causes problems for Obama in the closing primary season, deadlocked with a rival, but wounded, liberal Clinton, will be amplified ten-fold in the general election against McCain. The immediate effect is that every time Obama gets into his stump speech about transcending race, coming together, and shunning the old voices of racial divisiveness, among the clapping and hysteria, there will be a notable hiatus, a pause for a bit, as the audiences, if even for a second or two, suddenly realize that Obama is preaching to the country to do what he himself certainly will not.