Reflections on Obama's speech

Regarding Sen. Obama's speech on the Jeremiah Wright fiasco:

• Welcome to the real world of politics. And it will only get more real for Mr. Obama, a newby on the national political scene that the media knows little about and will want to know more (which is why ABC explored this pastoral scenario in the first place).
  
  
• Obama, because of his race and radical positions (abortion, same sex unions, etc.) cannot afford too many missteps. This speech was good, but not nearly so good to make this perception go away.
  
  
• Obama is going to have to get control of wife Michele's verbiage. She can be a loose cannon and play right into the perception that Rev. Wright has had influence on this couple in deleterious ways.
  
  
• Obama is a smooth rhetorician. If this race comes down to mere likeability and captivating delivery McCain is in trouble.
  
  
• The hot white exploratory light of media and opposition research has only just begun.
  Get used to it, on both sides.
  
  
• Wonder what we find out about McCain's religiosity in the next several months. Something, you can count on that.