Obama is going on national TV tomorrow to take on the race and his personal pastor issue.

An issue that he apparently was somewhat oblivious to while attending the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for some 20 years and developing a relationship with a pastor he calls Uncle and who he attributes his finding of Christ, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose sermons are entrenched with anti-American invective.

He says, “I am going to be talking about, not just about Reverend Wright but just the larger issue of race in this campaign, which has ramped up over the last couple of weeks.”

But the issue here that raised the race issue was Obama’s pastor, Rev. Wright who said in his sermons calling America the U.S. of KKK-A and saying the nation should be damned for its treatment of blacks.

Obama, the Kennedy-like super star of the Democratic Party is showing some vulnerability and lack of credibility when he repeatedly claims that he has never been present for any of the vitriolic speeches delivered by Wright, and does not approve of them.

“None of these statements were ones I had heard myself personally in the pews,” he told Fox News on Friday, saying that had he “heard them repeated I would have quit.”

He goes on to defend his pastor, “I think the caricature that’s being painted of him is not accurate,” he said, adopting language similar to a statement from his church issued Sunday.

Obama is making a major strategic mistake tomorrow in raising the race issue, especially when he tries to pretend that he was oblivious for 20 years to Wright’s statements and positions and yet defends him for anti-American invectives that he alleges he never heard.

This is a slippery slope for the leading Democratic candidate and you can be sure if Obama is the Democratic nominee you will be sure to hear more of this during the Presidential campaign.