More evidence today Obama’s spiritual advisor Jeremiah Wright will not be leaving the news cycles anytime soon.

Slate reports that conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt played excerpts from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams of My Father on his show yesterday. In an excerpt Obama agrees with the pastors sentiment that “Where white folk’s green runs a world in need”

[T]he pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.
“The painting depicts a harpist,” Revernd Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountaintop. Untill you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, aprtheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.”

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. … [E.A.]

Meanwhile FOX News has the story on a $1.6 Million retirement home being built by Rev. Wright and the interesting land deals that are funding it and a $10 Million line of credit.

My take? I don’t know that either stories will have an amazing effect on the public but like the earlier reported, italian slurs made by Wright now being entered into the public domain, they provide a further push-back against the current move by many to present the pastor as a victim of media influence rather than someone deserving of scrutiny. It is becoming more difficult to defend Wright to the public.