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Wednesday, 30 April
Barack Obama
Tuesday saw the dramatic unraveling of Barack Obama’s relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the man who married him to his wife Michelle, baptized his two daughters, and inspired the title of his best-selling memoir, The Audacity of Hope. Wright, of course, sabotaged Obama during his Monday media frenzy.
The Post claims to have dug up a source with “deep roots” in Wright’s community, who says that “Jeremiah doesn't care if he derails Obama's candidacy or not . . . He knows what he's doing. He knows he's not helping."
Not helping, indeed. The New York Times reports that the brouhaha is making the all-important superdelgates skittish.
Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times’ Top of the Ticket blog says that HBO comedian Bill Maher spoke for many Obama supporters when he said Monday night:
I saw Reverend Wright. This is the guy that Obama did not throw under bus. He said ‘I can no more repudiate him than I can repudiate my own family.’ And I saw this guy the other night, who I also defended, saying Obama was just another politican. You know what, Reverend Wright? You’re a dick."
On Tuesday, Obama left his worries courtside during a pickup game with members of the University of North Carolina basketball team. Gawker posted footage of the game, noting that he has “decent handle, fair passing game, and he even took it to the hole once, with the UNC players being nice enough not to swat his layup attempt away.”
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