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Reverend Wright? Right...

"And the hopemonger looked tired, rattled, and on the defensive over his string of big-state losses and the continuing conniptions over his knuckle/chuckleheaded former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright." - Jon Heileman

He's everywhere. He's everywhere.

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March 2008
- Clinton Slips to New Low in Poll
  
  newser | MSNBC | Mar 27, 08 6:51 AM CDT
  
  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 John McCain, the poll ranked Hillary the least capable of uniting the nation. More »
- Obama Pastor Cancels Speeches
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | Mar 26, 08 8:05 AM CDT
  
  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 probably prudent" to cancel, said one Texas pastor, adding that there had been threats on his life. More »
- Wright 'Would Not Have Been My Pastor': Clinton
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 25, 08 6:30 PM CDT
  
  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 don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend,” Clinton added. More »
- Obama Erases Clinton's Lead With Speech
  
  newser | Baltimore Sun | Mar 25, 08 9:01 AM CDT
  
  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 controversy, writes the Baltimore Sun . More »
- Obama Recalls Sparring With Preacher
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 24, 08 10:41 AM CDT
  
  “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 the fact that Bill Clinton invited him to the White House when he was having his personal crises.” More »
- Obama Speech Injects Race Into Easter Sermons
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 23, 08 9:06 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama altered the agenda for many Easter sermons with his risky speech last week on racial acrimony, the New York Times reports. Ministers of a variety of faiths say they will use Obama’s words—framed to explain the incendiary statements of his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—when speaking to congregations on Christianity’s most holy day. More »
- Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
  
  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 McCain: Say "something interesting"—speak in paragraphs instead of soundbites—and you, too, might get more than an 8-second snippet of your speech on the news. More »
- Obama Backer Compares Clinton to McCarthy
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 22, 08 6:33 AM CDT
  
  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 you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country, and people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude." More »
- Voters Split Over Obama's Pastor Problem
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Mar 21, 08 2:12 PM CDT
  
  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 Barack Obama. “He was softening me up. He was kind of even with Hillary.” More »
- Richardson Backs Obama, Cites 'Unique Moral Ability'
  
  newser | Oregonian (Portland) | Mar 21, 08 1:21 PM CDT
  
  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 said he “couldn’t be more honored” to receive it, the Oregonian reports. More »
- Bill Clinton Welcomed Wright
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 21, 08 8:06 AM CDT
  
  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 was posted by an anonymous blog supporting his church and has been distributed elsewhere, including the New York Times , courtesy of the Obama campaign. More »
- Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 20, 08 1:32 PM CDT
  
  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%, up from 44%-37% and 49%-43%, respectively, Politico reports. More »
- Clinton Must Catch Perfect Wave, Aides Say
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  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 Obama without re-votes in Michigan and Florida, and the Jeremiah Wright flap is cooling. More »
- Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor
  
  newser | ABC News | Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT
  
  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 how Wright could get “caught up in the emotion” of an extemporaneous sermon and warned against taking his comments out of context. More »
- Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of a Klan Rally'
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT
  
  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 that whites may be “tired of walking on eggshells” around blacks, but don’t knock Wright too much. More »
- Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 19, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  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 both races feel alienated and resentful. More »
- GOP Sees Pastor as Route to Nov. Win
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 19, 08 1:07 PM CDT
  
  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 is and it’s not the Obama you thought—he’s not the Tiger Woods of politics.” More »
- Obama Speech Doesn't Sway Pundits
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Mar 18, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  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 American history.” His defense of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was "a break with political precedent, in that he's asking voters to look beyond the cartoon of controversy to see a more complex picture." More »
- Obama Calls for Racial Unity
  
  newser | CNN | Mar 18, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama tackled the issue of race in a candid and risky speech this morning, recounting America’s racial history and acknowledging both black anger and white resentment “we’ve never really worked through.” He denounced the divisive statements of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying they "denigrate the goodness and the greatness of our nation," but he said he could "no more disown him" than he could his own white grandmother, who sometimes succumbed to racial stereotypes. More »
- Obama Pastor Being 'Lynched,' Faithful Say
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 18, 08 9:35 AM CDT
  
  Black pastors and parishioners—including the 3,000 who packed Trinity Church in Chicago Sunday—are leaping to the defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who's drawn a firestorm of criticism for his incendiary rhetoric on racism, the Washington Post reports. A pamphlet circulating the pews decried Wright’s treatment in the media as a “modern-day lynching.” “We are all being vilified,” the new pastor said. “This is an attack on the African American church tradition.” More »

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Fire-and-brimstone sermons damning America as racist from former Obama pastor the Rev Jeremiah Wright have been aired on TV and may embarrass his campaign. (KRT Photos)

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Then-President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Reverend Jeremiah Wright in this Sept. 11, 1998, photo, which appeared on an anonymous blog and again in the New York Times yesterday.

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