In a now-famous speech, Obama denounced the divisive statements of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying they "denigrate the goodness and the greatness of our nation," but he said he could "no more disown him" than he could his own white grandmother, who sometimes succumbed to racial stereotypes. Though even Mike Huckabee has urged everyone to lay off Obama and photos have emerged of Bill Clinton welcoming Wright to the White House, some GOP strategists Wright is the perfect vehicle to drive the Democrat through the mud in the general election.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 2:24:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39434/sarah-silverman-you-dont-get-jewish-voters.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSarah Silverman may be urging young Jews to persuade their bubbies in Florida to vote for Barack Obama, but older Jews are right to be uneasy with the Democrat, writes Anat Hakim in the Los Angeles Times . Much of Obama’s history has Jews feeling that “something is just not right” with him, and worrying “that Obama will, to put it charitably, not serve Israel well.”http://www.newser.com/story/39434/sarah-silverman-you-dont-get-jewish-voters.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 08 Oct 2008 8:11:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39165/obama-gets-tough-in-sharp-new-ads.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama is getting his political jujitsu on, reports Politico, launching a preemptive strike against John McCain’s upcoming attack ads with an aggressive message of his own: McCain is erratic and out of touch. The McCain camp plans to run ads next week tying Obama to a convicted money launderer and a political radical, and Obama’s team is spinning the attack as a dodge on the financial crisis.http://www.newser.com/story/39165/obama-gets-tough-in-sharp-new-ads.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 05 Oct 2008 0:09:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39074/fake-polls-smear-muslim-obama.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe ugly tactic of “push polling” has resurfaced in key swing states, as fake pollsters seek to influence voters with scam questions that present an unfavorable view of Barack Obama, the Guardian reports. On one call, a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania says, she was asked if she would vote for Obama if she knew he was supported by the militant organization Hamas. "It is scare tactics," she said. "It is terribly underhand."http://www.newser.com/story/39074/fake-polls-smear-muslim-obama.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 03 Oct 2008 11:27:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38265/obama-smears-are-low-profile-precision-strikes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThis election’s smear campaigns are precision strikes flying under the radar, unlike the publicity assault from the Swift Boat attacks last time around, the New York Times reports. An independent group has run cable ads heavy on racial overtones in Detroit’s suburbs, linking Barack Obama to controversial black figures such as his former pastor, Detroit’s disgraced mayor and, in a coming ad, Kenya’s prime minister.http://www.newser.com/story/38265/obama-smears-are-low-profile-precision-strikes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 24 Sep 2008 7:13:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34919/obama-nation-author-has-made-career-of-wild-claims.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAuthor Jerome Corsi, he of the Kerry Swift Boat book and the new attack tome on Barack Obama, has a long history of, um, provocative theories. For instance: The world's oil supplies are nearly infinite because oil constantly replenishes itself. Politico takes a look at some of his more outlandish claims over the years and how they've undermined his credibility on both the left and right. Among them:http://www.newser.com/story/34919/obama-nation-author-has-made-career-of-wild-claims.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 14 Aug 2008 11:45:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34601/hillary-camp-memo-paint-obama-as-un-american.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHillary Clinton’s top campaign strategist urged her to paint Barack Obama as un-American, reports the Atlantic in an upcoming article obtained by Politico . Clinton should empahsize that Obama's ties “to basic American values and culture” were "limited," according to a campaign memo. “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without raising these issues on him?” asked strategist Mark Penn in the memo.http://www.newser.com/story/34601/hillary-camp-memo-paint-obama-as-un-american.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 11 Aug 2008 1:57:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32296/obamas-unique-road-to-faith.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAs a young man, Barack Obama experienced a lonely, drawn-out crisis of faith—and now finds himself churchless as the whole world watches, Newsweek reports. His father was an atheist Muslim, his mother a Christian who turned secular, and Obama eventually embraced Chicago's Trinity United after years of church-based activism. His conversion wasn't "a bolt of lightning," he said. "It was more a gradual process."http://www.newser.com/story/32296/obamas-unique-road-to-faith.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28301/obama-wants-truce-even-as-mccain-spins-pastors-ties.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama is tweaking John McCain for slinging muck on Rev. Jeremiah Wright on one hand while distancing himself from Rev. John Hagee on the other, the Chicago Tribune reports. “Nobody thinks that McCain believes that stuff," Obama said. "For McCain to then suggest that every single statement that was made by somebody is somehow attributable to me is just wrong.”http://www.newser.com/story/28301/obama-wants-truce-even-as-mccain-spins-pastors-ties.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 23 May 2008 11:01:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27450/dowd-to-obama-dont-blow-off-w-va-loss.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama may have the nomination all but wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean his electoral problems are over, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times —and feigning indifference that the Mountain State gave him a raspberry last night isn't a winning strategy. If Obama wants to capture these West Virginians in November, he’ll have to fight for them, the way JFK did "despite raging anti-Catholicism."http://www.newser.com/story/27450/dowd-to-obama-dont-blow-off-w-va-loss.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 14 May 2008 9:06:38 CDT