Maybe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy didn’t hurt Barack Obama at all.

While Critical Conversations will host a discussion on a recent Obama speech at the Missouri History Museum later today, it seems his most recent speech on race in America may have helped soften the blow of some pulpit politics.

Agence France-Presse is reporting Obama’s positive ratings only slipped a little despite the fervor over Wright’s incendiary words, while Clinton’s plunged to a seven-year low. Clinton got a weak 37 percent positive rating, her bleakest since March 2001 when she first became a New York senator, so says the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Obama was only down two points from 51 percent to 49 percent now. The poll was taken a week after Obama’s speech on race in America.

The Wall Street Journal quotes Democratic pollster Peter Hart saying the 3.7 percent margin of error is a “myth-buster” demonstrating that the fracas was “not the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign.”

The discussion on Obama’s speech will take place at the History Museum at Lindell and DaBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis. The event will take place 6-8pm, Thursday. For more information call 314.746.4599 or check out www.mohistory.org.