'Save It for 2050'

August 12, 2008— -- The political world was atwitter this week when New York Magazine suggested that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was planning to publish a book in October.

John Heilemann wrote in his analysis of the "Color-Coded Campaign" that the book "might well place the topic of Obama's blackness (along with his patriotism and his candor about what he heard in the pews in all those years at Trinity Church) squarely at the center of the national debate."

But there will be no book coming in October because Rev. Wright has not written a new book.

A statement to the news media will be released on Wednesday according to a spokesperson for Trinity United Church of Christ.

The confusion may have come from remarks that Rev. Wright made to the NAACP in April.

Towards the end of his speech, Rev. Wright told the audience, "I'm taking too much of your time. So let me give you the outline of the rest of this message. You can either fill in the blanks for yourselves or you could wait for my book that will be out later this year."

'08ers Tout Support from Across the Aisle

Without mentioning Barack Obama by name, Joe Lieberman slammed the presumptive Democratic nominee on Tuesday, calling the 2008 election a choice between "one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not."

While McCain was being touted by the "Independent Democrat" in York, Pa., Barack Obama picked up the support of a former Republican congressman from Iowa who described the Illinois senator's platform as being rooted in "old American values that are as much a part of the Republican as the Democratic tradition."

"Barack Obama's platform is a call for change," said former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach (R). "But the change that he so gracefully is articulating is more renewal than departure."

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