There’s a lot of condemnation going on in the Democratic Party these days, the latest by Barack Obama who called remarks made by his spiritual advisor, the person who married he and his wife Michelle and baptized his children, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “inflammatory and appalling” statements.

Wright, the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, earlier in the week referred to the United States as the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.,” said 9/11 was the result of corrupt American foreign policy, told his audiences they should sing, “God Damn America” instead of “God Bless America” and accused the US of importing drugs, exporting guns and training murders.

Obama said in a prepared statement, “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies.  I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue. “

In a rare Fox News interview, Obama said he was a member of the church for some 20 years and knew Wright longer.

Of Wright Obama said, “He is like an Uncle to me, he helped me find Christ.”

Obama said Wright is a retiring preacher and he will no longer serve on his campaign committee.

In an earlier statement, Obama seemed to strike a certain innocence about the messages, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.”

At one point Wright bestowed an award on the racist Louis Farrakhan, who he traveled to Libby with.

This was the latest in Democratic candidates’ condemnations.  Hillary Clinton denounced Geraldine Ferraro earlier in the week who resigned from her finance committee, for what she perceived as racial comments when she said Obama wouldn’t be where he is if it were not for him being black and she admonished her husband Bill Clinton when he compared Obama’s primary win in Georgia to that of Jesse Jackson’s.

There have been numerous denouncements by both candidates, firings, dirty tricks, infighting for super delegates, and disenfranchisement of delegates in Michigan and Florida in this hotly contested battle for the democratic nomination.

And the contest could very well go to the floor of the Democratic Convention where the party could implode, unless a deal is struck by the super delegates.