A Michelle Obama excerpt, discussing Jeremiah Wright

In an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama that NBC's "Today" show will air Thursday -- with excerpts aired this evening on NBC's "Nightly News" -- Meredith Vieira asked the candidate's wife whether she believed that the couple's former longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had betrayed her husband.

"I think Barack has spoken so clearly and eloquently about this," Michelle Obama said.

"But do you personally feel that the Rev. Wright ... ," asked Vieira, probing for more.

"You know what I think, Meredith? I think we gotta move forward," Michelle said. "You know, this conversation doesn't help my kids. You know, it doesn't help kids out there who are looking for us to make decisions and choices about how we're going to better fund education."

-- Mark Silva

Mark Silva writes for the Swamp of the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau.

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[Core Democrat]

Michelle,
We have read your husbands books and BOTH are filled with racist comments! Most reference his "mother's race" very negatively and on an on with anti white racist comments! Calling whites, in one comment "some are ignorant". And his attachment to his "father, and being an "African son". NONE are befitting of an AMERICAN Presidential candidate! NONE! It reads as if it was written by Wright! But it is Obama's OWN words of hate! And your own comments as well as Obama's deragotory reference to his own white Grandmother and his comments in San Franscico about small town America SAYS IT ALL! And it is anything but "Eloquent." You and Obama BOTH need a dictionary to find the meaning of many words. And you can start with racist and UNITY! What a fraud you both are! And an embarrasement to the Democrat Party!