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  • Separated at Birth: Bob Barr and Jeremiah Wright


    This presidential race is full of celebrity look-alikes. Hillary Clinton and Star Trek 's Tasha Yar . Fred Thompson and Javier Bardem . But rarely does someone intimately involved in the race look exactly like someone else intimately involved in the race. Read More...
  • Wright's Silver Lining


    Crackpot theories abound in this news cycle, but one of ours—that Rev. Wright’s resurgence may end up helping Obama —could actually have some truth to it. Just today, former DNC Chairman Joe Andrew switched his allegiance from Clinton to Obama. The main Read More...
  • Wright Off


    In a press conference today, Barack Obama pronounced himself "outraged" and "saddened" at "the spectacle" of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent remarks alleging that the government invented AIDS, equating U.S. military efforts abroad with terrorism, and Read More...
  • Wright's Bizarro AIDS Theory


    After his speech today at the National Press Club, Jeremiah Wright was asked by the moderator whether he honestly believes, as he said in one of his sermons, that “the government lied about inventing the AIDS virus as a means of genocide against people Read More...
  • Do the Wright Thing


    Barack Obama has been trying to keep the Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of the spotlight for a long time now. As far back as February 2007, he rescinded an invitation for Wright to deliver the invocation at his presidential announcement. But now Wright is pushing Read More...
  • The Reject-and-Eject Rule


    It’s become the accepted logic of this race that if a surrogate says the wrong thing, you "denounce and reject" them, fire them from your campaign, return their money, and toss your drink in their face at parties. Until today. Don’t get me wrong, Obama Read More...
  • The Nutjob Conundrum


    Here’s a question: Who doesn’t have a crazy, wingnut, off-message preacher supporting their campaign? Right now, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is getting the most attention for, among other things, his statements that the U.S. government caused the AIDS virus; Read More...
  • The Wright Stuff


    Is Jeremiah Wright untouchable? Barack Obama’s minister, who leads the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and who coined the phrase "the audacity of hope," has said some controversial things over the years. But new videos of his sermons, purchased Read More...
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