Early reactions to Sen. Barack Obama’s Big Speech in Philadelphia about his pastor and spiritual advisor of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., sound like a mixed review. “It was a nice speech about race,” the conventional wisdom goes, “but what about that nutty preacher?”
Indeed, why was the Illinois senator delivering his brilliantly crafted argument for a renewed national dialogue on race at this moment in his campaign? Because goofy-sounding video clips were popping up all over television and the Internet of his Chicago pastor shouting nuggets like, “God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!”
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