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 Not an Icon, a Man 

Would civil rights legend be controversial in today's political climate?

Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Washington Post looks past the legend at the multidimensional figure scholars and King's associates consider his true legacy. ”His challenge was much bigger than being nice," says historian Taylor Branch. "It was even bigger than race.... More »

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race • race relations • poverty • civil rights • Vietnam War • Martin Luther King Jr. • 1960s • Jeremiah Wright • civil rights movement • Taylor Branch

OPINION

 Obama, Wright Echo  
 Early, Late MLK 

Barack's pastor sounds like King near the end of his life

Apr 4, 08 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama can easily be compared to the early Martin Luther King and his hopeful message of change prior to 1965, writes Michael Eric Dyson in the Los Angeles Times. But  it's Jeremiah Wright who most resembles King after that—when his message grew "angrier" and increasingly skeptical of... More »

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Barack Obama • race • racism • Martin Luther King Jr. • Jeremiah Wright

Obama Takes Image Rehab
to The View

Candidate says he was gone from church if pastor Wright wasn't

Mar 28, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama "wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church" had Jeremiah Wright not retired this year, he said today on The View. Obama reiterated his denunciation of his ex-pastor’s sermons, saying Wright had “deeply offended people,” CNN reports. He also told Barbara Walters... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Hamas • Barbara Walters • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ

Clinton Slips to New Low in Poll

37% approval rating worst of campaign; Obama appears to weather pastor storm

Mar 27, 08 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is suffering some of the worst poll numbers of her political career, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Clinton chalked up a personal approval rating of just 37%, the lowest since March 2001, two months after her election to the Senate. And of Clinton, Barack Obama, and... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Democratic nomination • female voters • African-American voters • Jeremiah Wright • NBC/WSJ Poll • personal approval • pastor controversy • white voters

Obama Pastor Cancels Speeches

Churches in Texas,
Fla. cite Wright's
safety, 'media circus'

Mar 26, 08 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, has canceled scheduled appearances this week, citing security concerns. Wright was due to lead a Tampa, Fla., church's three-day revival beginning yesterday, and visit several Houston-area churches Sunday. "As much as I hate for him not to come I think it's... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • Texas • Jeremiah Wright

 Wright 'Would Not Have 
 Been My Pastor': Clinton 

She'd have left church over racial remarks by Obama's ex-preacher

Mar 25, 08 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a week’s silence, Hillary Clinton spoke today on the Jeremiah Wright flap, saying the ex-minister at Barack Obama's church “would not have been my pastor,” the Washington Post reports. She said “getting up and moving” would have been the right choice for Obama. “You... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Don Imus • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008

Obama Erases Clinton's Lead With Speech

New Gallup poll puts Dems on equal footing; both trail McCain

Mar 25, 08 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new Gallup poll puts the two Democratic presidential candidates on even footing nationally, with Barack Obama holding a statistically negligible 1-point lead over Hillary Clinton. The poll, conducted after Obama's widely praised speech on race, suggests that the Illinois senator has erased the damage done by the Jeremiah Wright... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • race • poll • Democratic presidential candidates • Democratic nomination • Jeremiah Wright • Gallup poll

Obama Recalls Sparring With Preacher

Candidate says he
had to 'agree to disagree' with Wright

Mar 24, 08 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - “This is not a crackpot church,” Barack Obama told a conservative Philadelphia radio host in an interview defending Trinity Church, Politico reports. The Democratic hopeful says that despite Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “very offensive views,” he built “one of the finest churches in Chicago. Witness... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Bill Clinton • church • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ • poll numbers

OPINION

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

Noonan: They could try addressing us as adults

Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add conservative columnist—and speechwriter of note—Peggy Noonan to the list of pundits impressed by Barack Obama’s address on race. “It was a speech to think to, not clap to,” Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . And it holds a lesson for Clinton and... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Michelle Obama • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • William Faulkner • African-Americans • white people

Obama Backer
Compares Clinton
to McCarthy

Retired general blasts Bill's patriotism remark

Mar 22, 08 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - A retired Air Force general yesterday compared Bill Clinton to red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, after Clinton made comments that seemed to question Barack Obama's patriotism. The former president said at a North Carolina rally, "I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • North Carolina • Joe McCarthy • Jeremiah Wright • Merrill "Tony" McPeak

Voters Split
Over Obama's Pastor Problem

Some in Pa., Ind.
hold cleric's words against candidate

Mar 21, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - How is the Jeremiah Wright controversy playing with voters in Pennsylvania and Indiana? The reaction isn't unanimous, but the Boston Globe finds many who say the inflammatory sound bites swayed them toward Hillary Clinton. “Twenty years he put up with that?” said one 82-year old Indiana woman said of... More »

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Barack Obama • Indiana • voters • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary

 Richardson Backs Obama, 
 Cites 'Unique Moral Ability' 

Candidates competed feverishly for NM governor's nod

Mar 21, 08 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama today, saying the senator’s landmark race address this week “asked every American to see the reality and the pain of other Americans. He appealed to the best in us." The Democratic candidates eagerly sought the New Mexico governor’s nod, and Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Richardson • race • foreign policy • endorsement • Jeremiah Wright

 Bill Clinton Welcomed Wright 

Photo from 1998 shows controversial pastor no fringe character

Mar 21, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor was twice invited to the Clinton White House with groups of influential clergy, Politico reports, demonstrating that he is not the fringe figure he's been made out to be in the recent flap over his views. A photograph of Jeremiah Wright with Bill Clinton... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Clinton administration • Monica Lewinsky • Jeremiah Wright

 Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls 

White, working-class voters dismayed by Obama pastor's remarks

Mar 20, 08 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has scored her first statistically significant national lead over Barack Obama in several weeks—49% to 42%—in a Gallup poll taken early this week, Reuters reports. And her edge in Pennsylvania has doubled since February, two new polls show. They put her lead at 51%-35% and 53%-41%,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary • working-class vote • white voters

 Clinton Must Catch Perfect 
 Wave, Aides Say  

Path to nomination needs big win in Pa., popular-vote majority, Obama rough patch

Mar 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s aides say their candidate’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination grow ever slimmer, the New York Times reports, and she will need victories in Pennsylvania and the national popular vote—as well as a confidence-shaking event in Barack Obama's camp—to succeed. She can't likely overtake... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Al Gore • Michigan primary • Jeremiah Wright • Florida primary

 Huckabee: Lay Off
Obama Pastor 

Former minister goes to bat for controversial figure

Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jerry Falwell • Mike Huckabee • segregation • Jeremiah Wright • Joe Scarborough • pastor • sermon

OPINION

Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of
a Klan Rally'

Parishioner decries focus on Obama pastor

Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pastor is a good man, says a fellow churchgoer, and though his “going off on white America” kept T. Shawn Taylor—a black woman—from inviting white friends to worship, it didn’t stop her from marrying a white man. Taylor writes in the Chicago Tribune... More »

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Barack Obama • race • homophobia • Ku Klux Klan • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ • misogyny

OPINION

Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes

Columnists impressed that Obama took the high and long road

Mar 19, 08 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The day after Barack Obama tackled the race issue head-on, journalists are weighing its lasting effects:
  •  Eugene Robinson credits Obama with reframing the dialogue on race, moving it beyond "the sour stasis of grievance and countergrievance.” Its most significant aspect: laying out the reasons some in
... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Abraham Lincoln • Jeremiah Wright • grievances

 GOP Sees Pastor as 
 Route to Nov. Win 

'It’s not the Obama you thought,' strategist says of tie to vocal Wright

Mar 19, 08 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - After scrounging for ways to combat Barack Obama's appeal, Republican strategists now believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the perfect play to drag the Democrat through the mud in the general election. Said one of the inflammatory Wright clips making the rounds, “You start getting some sense of who he... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • GOP • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Swift Boating • campaign tactics

OPINION

Obama Speech Doesn't
Sway Pundits

Supporters see glorious moment; detractor isn't too impressed

Mar 18, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s milestone speech on race today covered a lot of ground, and first reactions vary from laudatory on the left to unsatisfied on the right:
  • Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo says the candidate went “big big big” by making his story a “realization of
... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jeremiah Wright

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