The Wright Decision, Por Favor

As I hope you've noted, folks, on several occasions, I've actually gone as far as to commend the President for his decision-making. It seems that whenever there's a crisis to address, he addresses it - decisively and, yes, for the most part, effectively (the boondoggle-ladened stimulus package, obviously, an exception), too....................................................................But I don't know here. On some of these issues (some of the more political ones, especially), I'm starting to get a creepy feeling that there's at least a small level of expediency involved. The most obvious example, of course, is the Reverend Wright fiasco. The President (admittedly, just a candidate then) started off by saying that he could no easier disown Reverend Wright than he could his own (white, he had to throw that one in there) grandmother. He THEN, a couple of weeks later, when it was obvious that Wright had zero intention of amping it down, did a 180 and tossed him under the bus. Decisive, yes, but maybe a little poll-driven, too.......................................................................And, now, of course, we have the controversy over Sotomayor's rather questionable (or what were perceived to be) comments (a wise Latina woman making better decisions than a white man). It seemed like here, too, folks, that the President only wanted to address these comments when they were causing him embarrassment. Kind of like he was reading the polls or something. I don't know, that's what it seems like anyway.