I don’t know that you can blame the collapse of the housing market entirely on President Bush. But he sure does provide a nice distraction. Why in the world Rev Wright is pertinent to the national political discussion is totally over my head. Republicans have dealt with right wing whacko preachers like Pat Robertson for years and gotten a free pass.
As someone who is selling his house this year, I’m much more interested in fixing the housing market!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reverend Wright is getting the publicity because he has been the pastor of Mr Obama for 20 years. I personally get more concerned when I read the comments of Michelle Obama.
As a retired commercial banker I place the housing crisis principally at the feet of the financial institutions ant the respective regulators. However all the politicians are guilty of encouraging the mortgage frenzy o f the past 5-10 years forgetting that people had to service the debt.
If you have done any travelling in Las Vegas and Miami as I did recently you know that there was rampart speculation going on fueled by easy money in04-06 and the meltdown will be harsh!

Is all this about the Rev. Wright or about the housing crisis?

As for Rev Wright… what’s not to like? If you are a Republican. Rev Wright has given up commercial topics for the whole of the election. He did more to bring Obama back to earth in a week than either Hillary or Rush could in 6 months.

As for housing… there is no crisis… none.

I wish someone on the left would explain something for me. When Pat Robertson or some other conservative Christian assures us that 9/11 or some natural disaster to be God’s judgement on America for tolerating homosexuality, non-marital sex or some other aspect of modern life, the media jumps all over them. When Wright does the same thing only insert racism, sexism, national violence or some other leftist cause, the media bends over backwards to defend him, claiming this is part of the black church “prophetic tradition” or some such garbage as that.