When King asked if the comment might hurt his campaign, Obama responded: "I think that my campaign has always been built on a confidence in the American people, that we can talk honestly about issues, that we can acknowledge that they're complicated, that we can disagree without being disagreeable…" Race has come to the forefront in the Democratic race recently, with comments by Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro that Obama would not be a major presidential candidate if he were white, and a new focus on the controversial remarks about 9/11 and other issues by the Illinois senator’s former minister, Rev. Full Article at CNN