If ever two pictures summed up a candidate’s viability for the White House, these two might be the most damning. Since they say a picture is worth a million words, will the photos cost these presidential hopefuls millions of votes?

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Story and Video at CBS2:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright made a surprise appearance in Chicago Friday night. Wright, Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor appeared at Saint Sabina church to hear famed African American poet Maya Angelou speak, and only CBS 2 cameras were there. …

Wright received a thunderous welcome. The audience had no idea the man at the center of a national political firestorm for the past three weeks was even coming to their church.

Rev. Wright was invited by Saint Sabina’s pastor, Father Michael Pfleger to attend an event at which Maya Angelou spoke. She was the main draw of the church’s African American speaking series. …

People who know Wright believe it is clear the ordeal has taken a toll. It is not clear how the pastor feels about the senator distancing himself from him, his spiritual advisor of 20 years. …

Wright did not mention Obama, nor the controversial tapes that won’t go away. He simply gave the benediction, and received another round of thunderous applause.

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Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims to have used drugs and had sex with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999 - and who has passed a computerized PolyScore test regarding his drug allegations - has come forward with a shocking revelation:

I was not living in Minnesota when I first contacted the Obama campaign about Obama’s meetings with me in 1999 for the purpose of taking cocaine and sex.

Between September 2007 and November 2007, I left a total of four (4) different cell phone numbers with the office of the Obama campaign. This was necessary because I had to adjust the telephone number to correspond with each new location where I lived in that period. I have explained in my blog how I slowly made my way north to Minnesota before settling there.

I have never said that I met Donald Young in any face to face meeting. But I did have contact with him several times. Each time Mr. Young instigated the contact. Nobody else, other than the Obama campaign, had a record of my constantly adjusted numbers. And I did not go public with my allegations until after Mr. Young was murdered.

So just how did Mr. Young know who I was? How did he know my cell phone number? (Please note that I have never said the exact number of times Mr. Young and I had contact. Nor have I stated the content of our exchanges. That and other information about the matter is reserved for the appropriate channels. I am providing this factual information to counteract the deliberate misinformation that a small army of Internet warriors are spreading on the net in an attempt to distract attention from Obama’s past).

Indeed, Donald Young was a choirmaster at Obama’s controversial church during a portion of the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s tenure. Young was a gay black man, and he was slain in cold blood just before Christmas 2007. His murder is yet unsolved.

That Sinclair may have communicated with Young before his murder raises some interesting questions, top among them: What was Young trying to tell Sinclair? Stay tuned…

Earlier: Sinclair Files $3 Million Defamation Suit Involving Drug and Sex Allegations Against Obama

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The Obama camp is trying to divert attention away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 20 year relationship with Sen. Barack Obama:

During one of the most difficult periods in the presidency of Bill Clinton, he addressed a group of clerics at an annual prayer breakfast in September 1998 just as the Starr report outlining his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky was about to be published.

Among those in attendance, was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who is seen shaking hands with Mr. Clinton in a photograph provided today by the Obama campaign. Mr. Wright’s relationship with Senator Barack Obama, as his longtime pastor, has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent days because of incendiary excerpts of sermons Mr. Wright gave at their church, Trinity United Church of Christ, in Chicago.

In providing the photograph to The New York Times, the Obama campaign appeared to be trying to divert some attention to the Clintons after a week in which Mr. Obama’s relationship with Mr. Wright has left him facing one of the biggest challenges of his campaign. There is nothing in the picture or the note that addresses whether Mr. Clinton had met Mr. Wright prior to the White House meeting or whether he or Mrs. Clinton knew anything about Mr. Wright’s views.

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An August 2007 article published on the Newsmax blog indicates that Sen. Barack Obama was in church during a controversial sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama said on Friday that he was unaware of the kind of rhetoric Wright had used and that he was never in church when Wright made derogatory comments about the United States.

The Obama campaign has told members of the press that Senator Obama was not in church on the day cited in the report, July 22, 2007, because he was scheduled to give a speech in Miami on that day.

Newsmax writer Jim Davis says he attended several services at Obama’s church during the month of July, including on July 22. “Davis stands by his story that during one of the services he attended during the month of July, Senator Obama was present and sat through the sermon given by Rev. Wright as described in the story,” according to the site. “Davis said Secret Service were also present in the church during Senator Obama’s attendance.”

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a strong mentor to Sen. Barack Obama for over twenty years, has been forced to step down as a leader with Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee.

During a live interview with Keith Olbermann on Friday night, Obama would not say whether he fired Wright, or if the radical holy man stepped down on his own. Earlier in the day, the Obama camp had declined to say that Wright would be forced to step down.

On the Olbermann show, Obama said he does not “repudiate” Wright “as a man,” and Obama said he still considers Wright to be “like an uncle.” The senator added that he never remembered sitting in on any of Wright’s controversial sermons.

Obama also said that his relationship with embattled real estate developer Tony Rezko has been mischaracterized.

Olbermann, who has long appeared to be supportive of Obama on various MSNBC programs, seemed visibly shaken to be questioning Obama about these scandals.

Earlier: Obama’s Mentor: ‘Hillary Ain’t Never Been Called a N****r’; Blacks Should Sing ‘God Damn America’

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Several blogs have posted the below video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor, mentor and campaign worker for Sen. Barack Obama, in which Wright says, “Hillary ain’t never been called a n****r”:

Wright is a member of Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee. Obama’s campaign hasn’t yet said whether he will be fired for having made these remarks, but Obama last month defended his church at a campaign appearance, saying, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.”

The Blotter, too, offers up some controversial statements Wright has made in the past:

Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”

Wright has also said he believes the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”

The reverend married Obama and his wife Michelle, and baptized their two daughters. Obama has also credited him for coming up with the title of his book, The Audacity of Hope.

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