For all of the emotion coming from Pastor Manning's lips, everything he said was factually true, albeit personal. He actually spared Sen. Obama more humiliation by not discussing more important subjects.

He never spoke about Obama's connection to openly racist Minister Jeremiah Wright, or to an indicted real estate scammer Tony Rezko, or his endorsement by Lewis Farrakhan and The New Black Panther Party or his intimate association with a former fugitive bomber from The Weather Underground.

For a Post-Racial candidate whose entire platform is predicated on being race-neutral and uniting, it is troubling that he exhibits stunningly poor judgement by surrounding himself with - and refusing to dis-associate himself from - bigoted, xenophobic nationalists who preach Black Liberation Theology, which is unquestionably separatist.

Now we hear that his Passport records were breached. What motivated this intrusion? Why is the State Department - hardly a conservative wing of government - interested in knowing where Obama travelled abroad? What is Obama suspected of? What is Obama hiding now?

Where there is smoke, there is fire.