Are We Having An Obama "Sister Souljah" Moment?

Updated: Added an embedded video link from MSNBC below.

Wikipedia defines a "Sister Souljah Moment" thusly:

In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician's public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or their party. Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party, although such a repudiation runs the risk of alienating some of the politician's allies and the party's base voters.

Reporting this afternoon is showing that Barack Obama is now rather pissed off at the Magical Mystery Tour that Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been taking over the last week and how it is hurting, some say deliberately, the candidacy of his former church member, Barack Obama.

Obama has also just issued a statement, of which I am watching a repeat performance now on CNN. He is clearly distancing himself from this man and making it clear that he didn't know him as well as he thought he did.

Of course, this will make no difference to the Sean Hannity / Rush Limbaugh crowd out there. Nothing ever would, after all, so why bother trying.

Out running errands this afternoon, I see that locally the price of a gallon of gasoline has hit $3.65 a gallon. This run up in gasoline prices, well before the summer driving season hits, is having a major impact on the cost of essentially everything and therefore is hurting people's lives.

This distraction that Obama is having to deal with today, doesn't impact people's lives at all. He does need to get this behind him so he can get back to what matters most.

CNN has replayed part of the speech and is now doing the talking head thing (Candy Crowley ... I'd like to hear Obama, not you). I look forward to hearing the whole thing along with the Q/A that followed.