Self-referential criticism

Charles Krauthammer, in an on-line column from the Washington Post, says of Barack Obama's mea culpa speech, "The beauty of a speech is that you don't just give the answers, you provide your own questions." Of course, he titles his own column the same way: "The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud".
He does make a good point, however: "But Obama was supposed to be new. He flatters himself as a man of the future transcending the anger of the past as represented by his beloved pastor. Obama then waxes rhapsodic about the hope brought by the new consciousness of the young people in his campaign. Then answer this, Senator: If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?"

Rico says Obama is going to have a hard time living down the Reverend Wright...