First Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s public appearances were cancelled. Now his church’s web site has been cleaned up. Kind of Soviet, right? Given Wright’s love of the spotlight, God-o-Meter has a hard time believing that this attempted clean up is a result of him and his church acting on their own. How big a role, if any, is Obama playing in the effort? God-o-Meter will do its best to find out. Sure, the campaign wants to move on from the Wright controversy. But an elaborate effort to silence his pastor and give the church–or even just its web site–a facelift would come off as pretty cynical for a supposedly straight-talking candidate, no?

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