Completing the gambit of Liberal apologists making his speech out to be the Gettysburg Address 2.0, The New York Times thinks it should put to rest any debate over Obama’s ties to Reverend Blame Whitey.

There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues that the nation is wrestling with.

Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion, with its enduring vision of the separation between church and state. Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better…

There have been times when we wondered what Mr. Obama meant when he talked about rising above traditional divides. This was not such a moment…

Fundamental beliefs? Obama’s moral guidance counselor of 20 years blames America for AIDS, calls for God to damn the country, asserts that we’re all white supremacists, and believes we deserved 9/11. Or, as Allah says:

If the last 20 years count for anything, the best estimates of his “fundamental beliefs” are that the United States is a racist hegemon begging to have jets flown into office towers to teach it a thing or two about imperialism. He’s a gutless, opportunistic coward who was afraid to say an unkind word to one of the power brokers in the black community on whom he counted for votes as an Illinois politician, and now that he’s a national figure he’s throwing the same guy under the bus to preserve the illusion that he’s a “post-racial” politician. And you’re sitting there cheering him on because you don’t care what sort of idiocy or anti-American vitriol you have to swallow to put a Democrat back into the White House. Does that about sum it up?

Yep.

The speech did nothing to put to rest concerns over Obama’s ties to Wright (who as late as Monday was a campaign adviser) and judgment in the matter, regardless of what the NY Times and other Democratic apologists claim. Obama now admits he and his family heard outrageous sermons from the Reverend Windbag, yet he remained thoroughly planted in the church. Heck, a record can’t even be found of a condemnation by Obama until ABC News brought it up. Even now he will only condemn/disown the statements — not the Windbag himself. The Messiah demands we all come together and cross racial divides while, simultaneously, his own pastor of 20 years is blaming whitey for everything. No dice, dude.

The NY Times would like this to simply go away. That’s not going to happen.