IN A defiant public appearance yesterday, Barack Obama's former pastor said that criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church in the United States and rejected those who have labelled him unpatriotic.
"I served six years in the military," the Reverend Jeremiah Wright said. "Does that make me patriotic? How many years did (vice-president Dick] Cheney serve?"
"My goddaughter's unit just arrived in Iraq this week while those who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls to die over a lie," he said. Full story...
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