Barack Obama has taken to treating the nation as a land of fools.

In his mea culpable words matter-DON’T to America following the revelation that his longtime friend, mentor, pastor - his crazy Uncle Jerry who lives in the attic - is a racist pig, Senator Obama had the audacity to stand before the American public and say he was shocked and that he had no idea that Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama’s church for 20 years, had ever uttered such loathsome racially-motivated vitriol (my words not the Senator’s).

“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation,” the Senator wrote in his blog on the Obama-friendly Huffington Post website.

“Statements?”

“When these statements first came to my attention it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.”

”Comments?”

So, he appointed Reverend Wright to his African-American Religious Leadership Committee after “these statements first came to my attention” at the beginning of his campaign.

And Barack Obama questions Senator Clinton’s judgment?

The words of Reverend Wright are heinous and inexcusable. Nothing can give good reason for the hatred behind the “statements,” though Senator Obama is doing his best to render excuse. Since the revelation of the tapes of Rev. Wright’s comments was made public, Rev. Wright has officially made his departure from the Obama campaign.

But the excuses for his association with the man continue. “Reverend Wright is from a different era,” Senator Obama said, as if any era would justify the hate-filled words spewed by Wright.

Obama’s attempt to defend his longtime mentor, the man who gave him the title for his bestselling book, The Audacity of Hope, and the man he credits for bringing him to Jesus is a slap in the face to every self-respecting American. 

As seems to have become a habit for Senator Obama, he denounced Reverend Wright’s words, but not the man as if he could separate the two. He did the same with Rev. Louis Farrakhan, another African-American preacher, and friend of Rev. Wright’s, who has taken to the habit of denigrating Jews, America and whoever and whatever he can blame for the plight of African-Americans.

Is Senator Obama actually asking Americans to believe that there is anything good in a human being that can speak such horrible words?

Senator Obama has framed his entire campaign by calling himself a new politician, a politician who would bring an era of civility to Washington. Yet he surrounds himself with divisive people such as Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, the indicted Tony Rezko, former Weathermen members.  Please, tell this writer what is new here?  

Senator Obama’s relationship with Wright once served the up-and-coming Chicago politician who needed Rev. Wright and his strengths in the African-American community in order for Obama to achieve his political goals.

Now that relationship has become a political liability in the Senator’s quest for the presidency for some of Obama's intended voters, while not those of the African-American community.

Obama is the worst kind of politician. He is the politician who portrays himself as something he is not, which makes him even worse than the “old school politician” he condemns. At least with the old school you don’t expect much, and sometimes you get more. With a politician like Sen. Obama you come to expect more and are devastated every time his perfection is nicked by startling revelation.  

Sen. Obama has taken a page out of the Bush-Cheney playbook. Under the tutelage of Karl Rove the Bush-Cheney team had Americans, journalists and politicians so scared that no one dare  disagree with anything the Bush-Cheney team did in the name of defending America against the terrorists lest they be called unpatriotic.

Obama, under the tutelage of David Axelrod, has Americans, journalists and politicians so scared they dare not attack Obama for fear of being called racist.

But America relax, you needn’t be so scared.  Obama’s true colors are beginning to come through thanks to Sen. Obama’s "Uncle Jerry." So the next time the Sen. from Illinois or one of his surrogates pulls the race card here’s how you answer: Mr. Obama, it takes one to know one.