At a time when Obama is attempting to distance himself from his pastor of 20 years, this doesn’t seem like such a great idea.

On Monday of this week — timed, purposely or coincidentally, within mere hours of Rev. Wright’s speech to the National Press Club — the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters in which they offered, in exchange for a small donation, a “limited-edition DVD and print” of Mr. Obama’s March speech (entitled “A More Perfect Union”) addressing Rev. Wright, Trinity Church, and race in America.

In that speech, Mr. Obama refused to throw his longtime friend and counselor under the proverbial bus, instead claiming that the white majority in this country couldn’t understand Wright’s anger and hate-filled comments because they weren’t black, and lacked the formative experiences that made men like Wright what they were.

That would be the same speech where Obama refused to condemn Wright, instead saying:

“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”

All of a sudden he starts tumbling in the polls, and he miraculously finds a way to do it. Amazing.