Barack Obama discussed the controversy over comments in sermons by his spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, with Anderson Cooper of CNN:

“In some ways this controversy has actually shaken me up a little bit and gotten me back into remembering that the odds of me getting elected have always been lower than some of the other conventional candidates”…

Obama declined to speculate on whether the controversy surrounding the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons may damage him politically, but said his campaign does best when it doesn’t follow the “textbook.”

“If I was just running the textbook campaign — doing the conventional thing — I probably wasn’t going to win because Sen. [Hillary] Clinton was going to be much more capable of doing that than I would be,” he said.

But then Obama said this:

“We had tremendous success, and I think we were starting to get a little comfortable and conventional right before Texas and Ohio.”

Apparently no one told Obama that no one is allowed to criticize Obama.