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Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention

Some problem-plagued nations could ill afford to devote so much time and energy to a matter of this sort. Thankfully, the U.S. isn't one of them.

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  • Tuesday, April 29, 2008 02:08 PM

    @Susan Wood

    Just give it a day or two. Pretty soon there will be some middle class white woman gone missing under mysterious circumstances where sex might have been involved ... or maybe something involving polygamy, old men and underaged daughters, possibly locked in basements ... and then we can get back to what's really important.

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