Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in Philadelphia, called comments by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, "incendiary" and "divisive." But Obama said he would not disown the man who brought him to Christianity. Wright recently retired from the pulpit after 20 years.
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Richard Cohen, columnist for The Washington Post
Dawn Turner Trice, columnist for The Chicago Tribune
Luis Clemens, editor of the online newsletter CandidatoUsa
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