Today, Fox News and the Washington Post, among others, are still having a problem with Obama and his response to Dr. Jeyll and Reverand Wright. The Post’s editorial says the issue now is Barack’s judgment. He shoulda done this long ago. Tomorrow it will be that Barack is left-handed.

A while back I posted that missteps should be judged in terms of the policy implications of those statements. McCain confusing Iraq and Iran has policy implications; Hillary’s bragging about surviving gun fire in Bosnia had no policy implications. Obama’s relationship with Wright, past or present, has no policy implications. It’s time to move on.

A further point. Excerpts of Reverand Wright put on a self-selected video loop are one thing. A full speech at the National Press Club with the full context evident to everyone is something completely different. There is a question about how many of the selected video clips Obama actually heard. He did not hear the NPC speech, but when he did he went ballistic and said so. While Wright may have had these feelings all along, his NPC speech was just that, a self-promoting speech, not a sermon.

If the issue is judgment, as the Washington Post suggests (and leads an easy parade), Obama’s judgment on opposing Bush’s invasion of Iraq that has so far resulted in over 4000 deaths of American soldiers and over 30,000 wounded, and over 250,000 Iraq citizens — men, women, and children — killed, is a better measure of judgment. Clinton and McCain totally misjudged that one, and they have a free ride.