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The Rev. Wright holds the power to torpedo Barack Obama

Rarely in the history of American politics has a bigot had as much power as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright enjoys today.

Support for Sen. Barack Obama has plunged nationally and (more importantly) in North Carolina since Rev. Wright confirmed at his National Press Club appearance Monday that he does indeed hold racist, lunatic, anti-American views, and implied that Sen. Obama has been insincere in separating himself from them. “He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician,” Rev. Wright said.

Mr. Obama was more upset by Rev. Wright’s assertion he was being disingenuous than by the extremist nature of his remarks, The New York Times reported Thursday.

“As Mr. Obama told close friends after watching the replay, he felt dumbfounded, even betrayed, by Mr. Wright’s implication that Mr. Obama was being hypocritical. He could not tolerate that,” the Times said.
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“After 20 years of loving Barack like a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn’t know about Jeremiah’s views during those years, that he wasn’t familiar with what Jeremiah had said … this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal,” his source told Mr. Dicker.

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