Rev. Wright's rantings a non-story

The treatment Barack Obama has been getting over his pastor lately is discouraging, to say the least, and The News-Gazette is just fanning the flames.

If the Democrats decide they cannot risk nominating a great and decent African-American leader because of inflammatory remarks made by someone else, they will have caved to pressures that have nothing to do with his fitness to be president and they will have handed the presidency back to the Republicans once again.