As much as G-D America is shocking, I think this is all true:

I also think that if Hillary Clinton wins because of the Wright scandal, it will leave a sad taste in the mouths of many. Mr. Obama reveals many things in his books, speeches and interviews but polarity and a tropism toward the extreme are not among them. What happened with Mr. Wright should not determine the race. Mr. Obama’s stands, his ability to convince us he can make good change, his ability to be “one of us,” that great challenge for a national politician in a varied nation, should determine the race.

This (in bold) is the key remark in Noonan’s column today:

it doesn’t get my blood up. It doesn’t hurt my heart. It doesn’t make me feel I need to defend my country. Because I don’t see it as attacked, only criticized in a way that is not persuasive.

I was once of the mind that if you were a normal American who isn’t tuned into the presidential race until after Labor Day, you might hear Wright and be shocked and outraged. But now that Obama has a shocked! response — however disingenuous it may be — I think it loses its power to back people away from Obama.

I still think there are judgment issues that are highlighted by Wright and the fact that Obama would expose his children to his ideas. If you believe America is exceptional, if you’re so in love with America you want to serve her as president, you can’t be routinely ingesting that stuff — you wouldn’t be able to stand it. But I don’t think Wright’s going to lose him the nomination or the election for Obama. And I sure hope no one is counting on Wright doing him in.