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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Thirteen hours after his former pastor startled some with a defiant performance that was televised nationwide, Barack Obama urged 18,000 supporters to stay calm and shrug off such “distractions.”
By the next afternoon, however, his tone was dramatically different.
The Illinois senator summoned reporters Tuesday to say he was outraged by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “divisive and destructive” remarks, scrambling to contain the flare-up in a controversy that has dogged him since clips of some of Wright’s most objectionable remarks began circulating on TV and the Internet.
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