Obama Cuts Ties To Reverend Wright

Obama cuts ties to Wright at surprise press conference in North Carolina. Developing.
WASHINGTON--Sen. Barack Obama finally cut the chord on Tuesday with his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright conducted a press conference Monday at the National Press Club here Obama called a "spectacle" and "appalling."
In an exercise of extreme damage control, Obama appeared at a surprise press conference in North Carolina to denounce and, finally, cut the ties to the man who married him and baptized his daughters.
"Yesterday, I think he caricatured himself," said Obama of the "performance" Wright gave at the National Press Club on Monday morning. Wright read a speech about the black church experience but then turned combative during the question and answer session.
That Wright thought is was appropriate to "command the stage" for three of four days in the midst of the presidential campaign made Obama, he said, "angry" and "saddened." A PBS interview with Wright was broadcast on Friday, followed by a speech Sunday night at the Detroit NAACP aired live on cable outlets and the final straw, appearing, at all places, the National Press Club.
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