Clinton Tries to Reignite the Wright Controversy

Dear Sen. Clinton,

This is not helpful:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton broke her week-long silence Tuesday morning about Senator Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying that she would have changed churches if her pastor had made the racially divisive and anti-American remarks that Mr. Wright had made.

“He would not have been my pastor,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters and editors at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as she interviewed for the paper’s editorial endorsement. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”

Now, I understand why you're playing this card at this point; the Wright controversy was a bad moment for the Obama campaign, but all evidence indicates that Obama's speech on race ended the controversy for all intents and purposes. And, let's face it, there doesn't seem to be much else to hit Obama with.

But Sen. Clinton, bringing Wright back up, especially after Obama made an appeal to America to discuss race in a more open and honest way, makes you look...well, like the caricature of you that Chris Matthews has been trying to draw, the caricature of someone willing to play dirty, to hit below the belt, to bring the party down rather than risk losing.

This is not helpful, Sen. Clinton. Not to Barack Obama, but not to you, either. It makes you look petty. It makes you look unpresidential. And most of all, it makes you look like a loser.

If you're going to convince Democratic superdelegates to override the choice of Obama, you're not going to get it done with these kind of bush-league tactics. If you keep this up, you will lose.

Please make a note of it.

Sincerely,

Jeff Fecke