“For Obama to try to disassociate himself from Wright after 20 years is dumber than “I didn’t inhale”. Of course He got elected. ”

Sort of like trying to disassociate yourself from a incredibly unpopular President who’s policies you’ve been a solid supporter of for the past 5 years?

In the current atmosphere, McCain has far more significant exploitable flaws than attempting to tie a candidate to his previous pastor’s most extreme views with the insinuation that he must believe all of them as well. It’d be hard to pin that one on Obama, since there is nothing he has on the record that says he supports any of those positions (and plenty on the record to the contrary). McCain, on the other hand, has plenty of soundbites of recent vintage that can be used to directly tie him to Bush’s least popular policies (and, for that matter, on many of them paint him as a flip-flopper as well).