In the grand tradition of Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes (or perhaps Gen. George Armstrong Custer, stupid white man), I'm going to attempt to demonstrate that Rev. Wright - and more importantly the religious tradition from which he springs - has been grievously wronged.

Rather than wishing this would all go away we should be righteously angry at the system - The Man - that generated this fiasco. Or at least understand it. Because it's probably going to happen again and again in the age of character assassination via YouTube, regardless of whether Wright is put "behind us."

And I promise - this won't be a political brief for Barack Obama.

As you've probably heard, Barack Obama went on Fox News for an in-depth interview. He finally distanced himself from the left-wing barking moonbats and started talking some sense:

WALLACE: Over the years, John McCain has broken with his party and risked his career on a number of issues — campaign finance, immigration reform, banning torture.

As a president, can you name a hot-button issue where you would be willing to buck the Democratic Party line and say, "You know what? Republicans have a better idea here?"

OBAMA: Well, I think there are a whole host of areas where Republicans in some cases may have a better idea.

WALLACE: Such as?

OBAMA: Well, on issues of regulation. I think that back in the '60s and '70s a lot of the way we regulated industry was top-down command and control, we're going to tell businesses exactly how to do things.

And you know, I think that the Republican Party and people who thought about the markets came up with the notion that, "You know what? If you simply set some guidelines, some rules and incentives, for businesses — let them figure out how they're going to, for example, reduce pollution," and a cap and trade system, for example is a smarter way of doing it, controlling pollution, than dictating every single rule that a company has to abide by, which creates a lot of bureaucracy and red tape and oftentimes is less efficient.

Outstanding. Free markets work, and are more efficient. It's about time serious Democrats acknowledged this and started bringing the conversation back from the far-left fringe into the mainstream center with the DLC and the Blue Dogs where the business of America is business.

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You gotta see this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA