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Opinion: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright still haunts Barack Obama

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Initial exit poll results from West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary drive home the work that Barack Obama still must do to disassociate himself from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The Associated Press reports that 2 in 10 voters said they believe Obama shares Wright’s views ‘a lot,’ while 3 in 10 said the candidate ‘somewhat’ embraces the preacher’s opinions.

In other words, fully 50% of those who trooped to the polls in his own party’s primary link Obama to Wright’s views -- presumably, the inflammatory ones that made the reverend a household name, such as ‘God damn America’ and that AIDS might be a government plot aimed at blacks.

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--Don Frederick

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