X MARKS THE SPOT: Bill Bradley on Obama’s Wright Stuff. “The week ahead in presidential politics, as may be the case with much of the next seven-odd months, is dominated by the racial politics swirling around Barack Obama. And by the questions yet unanswered by his speech last Tuesday in Philadelphia. These questions are at least as much about patriotism as they are about race. . . . I think that Obama is not going to become president unless he can explain Malcolm X (Wright’s most outrageous statements are a stand-in for what he represented), the anger that produced him, and the preposterous statements that not infrequently emanate from the black church. He can’t simply float as the easy post-racial figure, a man Americans can vote for as a salve for the issue of race in America. “