"Holy Terror" from the NY Post reports that the Obama campaign had been worried for a year that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery sermons and persona would come to light and negatively impact the candidate's image as a uniter - and of course, his presidential campaign.
"There was no doubt that there was controversy surrounding him," Axelrod said. "We did not want to . . . make him a target and make him a distraction on the day that Sen. Obama was going to announce his candidacy."
Axelrod only made that explanation when pushed by a reporter on a conference call. First, he blamed the weather.
"Part of what happened there is that it was 7 degrees in Springfield in that day and we truncated the program," Axelrod said.
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