Word: revs
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Black support of Obama soared after he won last winter's Iowa caucuses. But there were moments in this campaign when Obama was forced to manage the issue of race deftly and explain the unexplainable to a largely white electorate. Consider the case of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the 1980s, when Obama was an obscure community organizer. Trinity gave Obama an entrée to the city's thriving black middle class, and Obama came to view Wright in particular as a mentor...
...bless America. God damn America!' THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, Barack Obama's longtime pastor, preaching in 2003 about the nation's racist past. Critics later cited footage of the sermon as evidence of Obama's radical beliefs...
...Bush in 2000. It stood to reason that the fabled Washington wise man would back McCain again. Instead, Duberstein said he was troubled by McCain's efforts to ingratiate himself with the conservative wing of their party. He cited a fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and his hawkish stand on the war in Iraq. "I told John the right wing never wants to be satisfied; they're professional whiners," Duberstein remembers now. "They are never happy. So don't kill yourself trying. They will never trust you, no matter what...
...back on Hispanics, saying that he opposed stem cell research, mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from the press that we got every time we took a shot at the guy. [McCain] rejected every appeal to bring [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright up. Barack Obama made a choice to sit it that church for 20 years and listen to this guy. Then why on earth shouldn't that be something for the voters to consider? He would not do it. He would not do it. But we got called racist...
...first African-American Commander in Chief - ran a smart and steady campaign. They won't focus on William Ayers or Joe the Plumber or socialism or racism. They won't debate whether John McCain blew it by targeting Pennsylvania or by avoiding the press or by ignoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or by picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. They won't remember the robo-calls or "cling" or the Paris Hilton ad or the crazy chick who carved the B into her face. The pundits filling airtime on their 24-hour news channels might have cared, but posterity...