Barack Obama made a speech yesterday at a Philadelphia museum honoring the nation's founding intended to blunt criticism of his association with pastor Jeremiah Wright. He once again rejected controversial comments made by his longtime pastor that have circulated in the last few weeks, calling it a "a profoundly distorted view of this country”. Obama went on to say: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love."
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