I've had a blast watching His Holiness get slapped around because of his close relationship with nutty Rev. Wright as has everyone else.  Cuffy is downright giddy.  But it made me think...what are the potential consequences, beyond just the direct damage it does to the Obama campaign?  I've long thought that the worst case scenario would be if we had a Hillary/Obama ticket, and I think an indirect consequence of the Wright story is that it has the potential to make that happen. 

Obama's entire campaign is built on the hopey changeyness platitudes, his charisma and speaking style, and his squeaky-clean rise above it all narrative.  That narrative is, if not shattered, is damned close to shattered.  He's lost or is on the verge of losing the formula that took him this far.  That actually has the potential to free up Obama, if not from his own perspective, then from the perspective of the Democrat elite. 

What do I mean by freeing up Obama?  For a long time, I believed that if Hillary pulled out the nomination, Obama would reject the vice presidency out of fear that Hillary's divisiveness and scandal would rub off on him, and destroy his pristine facade.  The fallout from that rejection would likely be more than Hillary could handle, and make the serious divisions in the GOP look like nothing, and maybe buy us some time to clean up our own house. 

Now that the halo is broken, it frees him up to take that VP position, he's not the Messiah anymore.   Perhaps more than that, it may give the superdelegates the excuse they've been looking for to tilt heavy in Hillary's favor, which she may well still need to take the nomination.  And I think that most of Obama's starry-eyed cultists will be content with a VP slot.

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