'Outraged' Obama jettisons former pastor

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will try to get his campaign for the party’s nomination back on track today after declaring his controversial former pastor “was not the person that I met 20 years ago”.

Wed, 30 Apr, 2008 - 08:06

The young Illinois senator said he was “outraged and saddened” by the Rev Jeremiah White’s latest “divisive and destructive” remarks on race.

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