While I an Obama supporter, until this election cycle I've never registered as a voter of one party or another. Simply put, I've never felt particularly passionately about candidates from either side of the aisle.
Barack Obama disturbed my slumber enough to energize me into changing that "no party affiliation" status, since Florida has a closed primary. However, it's been with my level-headed independent nature that I've tried to absorb all sides of the controversy concerning his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and assess the validity of their arguments.
Additionally, as an older black American, raised in the tradition of activist black churches, I can identify with the underlying issues raised in this round of tit-for-tat controversies.
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