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"Hillary Deathwatch" Odds: 12.6 Percent
Barack Obama slams the Rev. Wright, Clinton's gas-tax plan receives
jeers, and Indiana is still a tossup, all of which brings Clinton down
0.3 points to 12.6 percent.
Obama's decision to
cut Wright loose Tuesday was an investment in the future: Let the story
dominate news for one more day, then hope it tapers off. In a press
conference, Obama said he's "outraged" at Wright's recent remarks about
Louis Farrakhan, the government inventing AIDS, and U.S. military
efforts being equivalent to terrorism. These comments "should be
denounced," Obama said, adding, "I do not see the relationship being
the same after this."
It's too early to say whether this move
defuses the Wright issue. Now that Wright got a taste of the
spotlight, he probably doesn't want to go away. (Obama had better hope
Wright's book tour happens after
Nov. 5.) But at least Obama can dissociate himself fully from his
pastor, as opposed to upholding the earlier wishy-washy (some would say
nuanced) disown-the-words-but-not-the-man stance he articulated in his
Philadelphia speech last month.
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