When Obama gave his speech last March in Philadelphia to counter the endless replaying of his then-pastor's rants -- the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. turning "God Bless America" into "God Damn America," blaming the US for the 9/11 attacks and its government for "inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color" -- Obama offered up an observation about his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham.
He said that he could no more "disown" his pastor than...
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