Obama's aides have said that Wright, who has now retired from the Chicago church, had resigned from his honorary membership on the campaign's African-American Religious Leadership Committee. "I think the American people recognize that all of us have friends or associates or people who we meet along the way who are not ideal or perfect, but that's part of, you know, part of what life is about" Obama said on PBS. "But I'm not sure that we benefit from continuing to perpetuate the anger and the bitterness that I think at this point serves to divide rather than bring us together." Full Article at Agence France-Presse