Obama's speech on Tuesday was intended to quiet the furor over Wright, who has claimed that the U.S. brought the September 11 attacks on itself with its foreign policy and that the government released the AIDS virus to kill black people. "What (Wright) is doing is spewing that stuff out to young people and to younger people than Obama and putting it in their heads that its OK to say 'God damn America' and to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit." Ferraro, the trailblazing 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate, left the Clinton campaign during a flap that began when she told the Breeze that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." Full Article at Reuters