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Rev. Wright may have retired, but Trinity’s UCC’s new pastor isn’t staying mum amid the Wright/Obama controversy, alleging for the second Sunday in a row that the church has been subject to a “crucifixion.” From the AP: The new pastor of Barack Obama’s Chicago church said during Easter Sunday services that recent national scrutiny of…

In a radio interview taped Friday for broadcast today, Barack Obama offered a new argument in response to criticisms that he didn’t denounce Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most incendiary comments at the time they were spoken. Obama says in the interview (with Philadelphia’s Michael Smerconish, partial transcript from The Page) that he’d been confronting Wright on…

And plays down the effect the whole controversy will have come November, nothing that “this is March, this is not October.” (John Heilemann at New York magazine offers a contrary theory, noting that clips of Wright, Michelle Obama saying that this the first time she’s proud of America, and Obama sans-flag lapel pin will make…

Just because the Democrats have become a lot more open about citing the Bible doesn’t mean all the references are positive. Here’s James Carville, longtime advisor to the Clintons, reacting New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Obama endorsement in the New York TImes: “An act of betrayal,” said James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and…
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