Faced with what his advisers acknowledged was a major test for his candidacy, Sen. Barack Obama sought Monday to contain the damage from incendiary comments made by his pastor and prepared to address the issue of race more directly than at any other moment of his presidential campaign.

Though he has faced questions about controversial statements by the pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for more than a year, Obama is enduring intense new scrutiny now over Wright's characterizations of the United States as fundamentally racist and the government as corrupt and murderous.

Obama, in a speech today in Philadelphia, will repeat his denunciations of the minister's words, aides said. But they said he also would use the opportunity to open a broader discussion of race, which throughout the course of his presidential campaign he has sought to transcend. He will bluntly address racial divisions, one aide said, talking about the way they play out in church, in the campaign, and beyond.

Monday evening, Obama continued to write the speech, which he believes could be one of the most important of his candidacy, aides said.

Obama said that in his speech, to be given at the National Constitution Center, he would "talk a little bit about how some of these issues are perceived from within the black church community, for example, which I think views this very differently."
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8609694

How the hell do they view it differently? "The government created HIV to kill off people of color"......"The US of KKKA"....get this sucker a shovel cause it sounds like he's going to bury his candidacy today.

Have a good one!:s4:
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