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...They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.' BARACK OBAMA, Democratic presidential hopeful, repudiating the comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright repeated his controversial statements on racism and 9/11 during a speech at the National Press Club...
...That being said, I was not surprised to see a cover story on Obama's mother - yes, the same mother we have heard so little about until now - to help quell the tide of white America's concern over where his true loyalties lie, in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. The attempt to portray Obama as a man made in his mother's image was painfully obvious. How simple and foolish TIME must think its readers are to put out such a story right before a primary that could assure Obama the Democratic presidential nomination. Why has Obama...
...only a few weeks ago, when both math and momentum seemed to rule Clinton out of contention. But then came her 9-point win in Pennsylvania, highlighting Barack Obama's persistent weakness among Catholics, senior women, Hispanics and blue-collar workers, and the self-aggrandizing return of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the political spotlight. These two events have played perfectly into a pitch Ickes had been making to superdelegates for months: that "we don't know enough about Obama" to make him the nominee. "The one thing we Democrats don't need is an October surprise," insists Ickes...
...They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.' BARACK OBAMA, Democratic presidential hopeful, repudiating the comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright repeated his controversial statements on racism and 9/11 during a speech at the National Press Club...
...succeed. The success of Obama's candidacy sends the very opposite message, which may be why Wright is so threatened by it. If Obama wins the presidency-if we can break past the barrier of race-there won't be much of a market for oppression-thumping orators like Jeremiah Wright...