Y’all, don’t you think the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been awful quiet, since that National Press Club performance, back when? I mean, he doesn’t seem the type easily shut up, does he? Is there some compact? Will he be back prancing around, yelling about how the U.S. government invented AIDS, come November 5 or so? Just asking . . .

P.S. Ayers can’t hog all the attention. You’ve got to give some love to Wright, Bernadine, Rezko, Khalidi, and fun others — all those Collier & Horowitz warned us about, years ago.

P.P.S. Speaking of invaluable writers, remember when Tom Wolfe talked about radical chic? The problem here is, the Obama “associates” are pretty much all radical, and no chic.

P.P.P.S. Obama is the big change guy: but his politics are so old — so McGovernite — and, what with these “associates,” he seems practically antique! I mean, it’s all Ann Arbor (or Columbia) c. 1975! Barack Obama, the new flavor, is actually retro.

I mean, Saul Alinsky! Geez! Doesn’t he seem as distant as Engels?