“Why does Reverend Wright matter so much to you,” asks the caller to my WLS talk show. He thinks we in the media need to get over it.

Obama has thrown Jeremiah Wright off the Obama Bus and is now hoping that white people will get over it and black people will forgive him.

I find it amazing and frustrating that when I attacked Rev. Wright’s maligning of America I was called a racist, but when Barack Obama used some of the same language I had used he is compared on the Huffington Post to Jackie Robinson, an exceptional man standing tall against the hard wind of racism.

But this is not an issue of race. It is not an issue of partisan politics. It is not an issue of casual association – minster to congregant – or one of taking the Reverend out of context. Obama tried to cast it in those lights in the Philadelphia speech that had more thrills running up Chris Mathews’ leg, but that was smoke and mirrors. Obama tossed Wright on Tuesday because he figured out that America was figuring him out and not falling for the spin.

But the speech and Q&A at the National Press Club showed Wright actually believes his wild eyed, horrific assertions about America.

Twenty years of listening to, interacting spiritually with and financially supporting Wright, and the past months of defending him, cannot be wiped away with one speech of condemnation. Obama either agreed with Wright or didn’t care until the issue threatened his candidacy.
This is an issue of leadership ability and judgment.

Obama is failing his own main claim to worthiness. He has responded to criticism that he lacks experience by asking us to vote for him based on his judgment. Therefore it is fair to look into what kind of judgment he displays. And Wright is a powerful piece of forensic evidence in this search for the truth.

As today’s prosecuting attorney I present the following:

Answering a question about abortion Obama called his own daughters “miracles.” But then he said, “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Which is it? Are children miracles or are they punishment? A miracle is an act of God. That is the definition of the word; it is not a figure of speech meaning something nice or something special. A miracle is of a supernatural nature.

How does a man talk of teaching morality and values and then declare that he would kill one of God’s miracles because he wouldn’t want his daughters to bear the consequences of their own actions? This is sound judgment?

Perhaps this is why Obama did not have the judgment to see that unapologetic Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers was not the best person to spend time with professionally, personally and politically, much less morally. When asked about it he pretended that Ayers was just someone from the hood.

Apologists for Obama, including Chicago Mayor Daley, say that Ayers terrorist bombing activities took place in turbulent times 40 years ago and we should all move on. Really? Suppose we dig up an unapologetic Klan member who bombed some black churches during those turbulent times. Would Obama and all his sycophants “move on?”

Perhaps this is why Obama could not see a problem with political operative Tony Rezko, now on trial in Chicago, helping him get a mansion at a discount, even though the Chicago Tribune had outed Rezko as a shady character a year before the deal.

Perhaps this is why Obama could not see the broken, filthy, boarded up buildings Rezko was supposedly saving to create housing for the poor and disadvantaged. This rip-off of both the taxpayers and the poor happened in the district overseen by wise State Representative Barack Obama, the caring community worker.

Perhaps this is why Obama defended anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan’s “work in the community” even though the Senator had said that Don Imus should be fired and no one like Imus would ever work on Obama’s staff. Imus also has worked in the community but for some reason that didn’t count.
Perhaps it is that Barack Obama lacks a true moral compass.
He certainly lacks judgment.
The evidence, of which Wright is only one powerful part, mounts up. It would be a huge mistake to “get over it.”

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Jerry Agar is a talk show host on AM 890 WLS in Chicago.