Has The Reverend Had The Wright Effect On Obama?
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by Bonney Kapp
“We have had a rough couple of weeks, I won’t deny that,” Barack Obama admitted to reporters today in Indianapolis. Since Reverend Wright’s public resurfacing last weekend, Clinton has been closing the gap in national and state polls while Obama has been putting out the flames of controversy.
It’s true that most voters don’t ask Obama about his former pastor - and today he noted if he talks about those issues important to Americans, “I think we have a terrific chance” of winning the Democratic nomination. In the meantime, he’s still facing questions from reporters about
the effect his former pastor’s is having on his campaign.
When asked if he’d be upset if he lost Indiana “by a hair” because of Reverend Wright, Obama grinned. “I don’t think that what happened with Reverend Wright was helpful. Right? I don’t think there’s any denying that,” he said. “This will be something that they factor in to the mix. How it plays itself out, I can’t tell….I don’t spend a lot of time doing is obsessing about what ifs and should have beens. What I’ll do is we’ll see what happens on Tuesday and then we’re gonna keep on going to the next contest,” he shared.
