When the supercilious Allesandra Stanley and the serious Bob Herbert agree at opposite ends of the NYTimes about the Reverend Wright, you have to wonder if we are not approaching the end times.Or.... maybe Al Sharpton has become Wright's communication director.Poor Obama--two crazy uncles loose in the media circus.Update: Obama takes his distance:"The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago," Obama says of his former pastor. "His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate ... if Rev. Wright thinks that that's political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn't know me very well. And based on his remarks yesterday, well I might not know him as well as I thought, either."Update: Uncle Al checks in:http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292008/news/regionalnews/sharpton_raps_obama_108577.htm

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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