As the McCain campaign renews attacks from the primary season regarding Barack Obama’s associations with William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it is worth pointing out that this is coming from a man who promised to run a clean campaign. McCain even went so far as to call Rev. Wright a moot issue (see above [...]

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It’s no secret that the black church is more outspoken than say, my regular Sunday Catholic church service. I suppose we should give credit to the Rev. Wright controversy for that heightened realization (although I gather most people presumed this long before that YouTube clip hit every media outlet this side of the Milky [...]

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Last week saw the continued brow-beating of the American people with Jeremiah Wright overkill. The first 16 minutes of Meet the Press were devoted to it. CNN, FoxNews, and the whole lot continue to replay the YouTube clips. I’ve even seen some ridiculous implications in the more whacked-out portions of [...]

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Against the cold, scientific glow of an unlikely, biology-inspired observation, I wonder, is this what we have been reduced to?
A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted from Friday to Tuesday- right in the thick of the latest Jeremiah Wright flap- indicates that only 51% of Democrats believe Obama will win his party’s nomination, down from [...]

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Barry Obama’s back. And maybe it’s just plain better that way for everybody— win or lose.

Read Obama’s aura recast in basic black »

Oh, that my spiritual advisers had been anything like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright! Top Five with a bullet!

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Yes you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you’d stop calling me Sister Sadie
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You’re all gonna die and die like flies…
I don’t trust you any more…
Alabama’s gotten me so upset
Tennessee made [...]

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This time Obama took discussion of the Wright controversy to Philadelphia and, drawing on his own multi-racial American background, his personal philosophy of politics and his training as a constitutional scholar, unraveled a stunner of a speech on the history of race relations in the United States. It was the kind of distinctly unique speech [...]

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Obama’s answer to the Pastor Wright controversy this weekend included this video and appearances on the television networks— including Fox. Obama attempted to provide background on how he came to know and respect Reverend Wright and gave assurances that he never heard the man make these kinds of inflammatory comments— never while Obama was “in [...]

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How much do Obama’s pastor’s comments matter? There are pundits now convinced that the Pastor Wright YouTubes have rendered Barack Obama unelectable. Some initial polling suggests the Wright controversy may indeed influence voters. Others believe the controversy has been rightly handled or mostly amounts to a distraction and will have little effect on the election.
Some [...]

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