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   Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

   In mid-late October 2007, Obama came under fire from the Human Rights Campaign and others for a South Carolina gospel music campaign tour that featured singer Donnie McClurkin, who states that he is "ex-gay" and that homosexuality is a "curse [that runs against] the intention of God." ... In the book, Obama said "Pot had helped, and booze.
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   Jeremiah Wright controversy

   After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church. ... He said that his parishioners' response should be to examine their relationship with God, not go "from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents."
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   Barack Obama

   Obama said that "we're still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong." ... ↑ "About Barack Obama".
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   International reaction to the United States presidential election, 2008

   Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said "Today’s big news – the election of Barack Obama for the 44th President of the United States – shows us the scale of the global changes and the seeking for something new. ... Kosovo - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci sent a letter to Obama congratulating him on his win, calling the elections "historic" and saying, "The election of the 44th American president showed a noble electoral campaign and displayed the best democratic values of the United States."
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   John McCain presidential campaign, 2008

   Obama has condemned the Weathermen's violent actions. ... He formally rejected the endorsement on May 22, 2008, following news reports of a sermon Hagee gave in the 1990s alleging that Adolf Hitler driving the Jewish people from Europe was "God's will" as it was part of a divine plan to gather Jews in the Holy Land.
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   Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008

   On election night, both Obama and Clinton claimed victories. ... Among other things, Wright said, "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human.
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   A More Perfect Union (speech)

   Wikinews has related news: Barack Obama gives speech on racial division ... Rev. Troy Benton, lead pastor at a church outside Atlanta, said he did not "see how you can be an African-American preacher and not try to figure out how to have something to say this Sunday (March 23, 2008), even though it’s Easter."
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   Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008

   Obama said that he was working to help unemployed workers in Chicago while Clinton was "a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." ... "Hillary and Barack, Afta Nafta".
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   List of The Colbert Report episodes (2008)

   | Stephen begins by discussing a recent John McCain rally, in which opening speaker Bill Cunningham said negative things about Barack Obama. ... He then offers up "Stephen Colbert's Make McCain Exciting Challenge!," inviting viewers to replace the green screen behind John McCain at one of his speeches with something exciting.
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    Michelle Obama

    She met Barack Obama when they were among very few African Americans at their law firm (she has sometimes said only two, although others have pointed out there were others in different departments) and she was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate. ... I wince a bit when Michelle Obama chides her husband as a mere mortal — comic routine that rests on the presumption that we see him as a god ...

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• Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008,
• A More Perfect Union (speech),
• Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008,
• List of The Colbert Report episodes (2008),
• Michelle Obama