Obama’s price eases a notch after the pastor row
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The candidate responds to the minister who married him and Michelle
There’s been a move to Hillary and away from Obama on the Democratic nomination markets in reaction to the overnight story from the US about his pastor. This looks like it could run and the MSNBC video above is well worth watching.
In all these things it usually boils down not to the issue itself but how the candidate deals with it. But there clearly is a danger, highlighted in the extract, that some of the pastor’s more inflammatory remarks will be thrown at him if he does get the nomination.