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Obama faces prejudice on all sides 
Financial Times – London,England,UK                                                                                                                                                             By Edward Luce: Barack Obama has a problem. Nearly a quarter of Democrats who hold a negative view of him believe he is a Muslim, according to a poll published by Pew Research on Thursday. Yet most Democrats who think negatively of Mr Obama also disapprove of his link to Jeremiah Wright, the pastor who introduced him to Christianity two decades ago.

Obama backers urge Clinton to quit 
CNN – USA
Barack Obama have called on his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, to drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president. Some of Sen. Barack Obama’s best-known backers are urging Sen. Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the most unvarnished statement Friday, saying Clinton "has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to."

Clinton and Obama Can’t Count On Iraq to Win the White House 
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA                                                                                                                               Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama declared that the United States should not "baby-sit a civil war." Protests in Washington, DC, marked the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. It was not all that long ago when it looked as if Iraq was going to dominate the 2008 presidential campaign, a situation that seemed to make just about any Democratic nominee a shoo-in. In early 2007, President Bush was pouring more troops into Iraq even as dozens of corpses were turning up on Iraqi streets each morning.

Obama gets key endorsement 
CNN – USA
Barack Obama kicked off a bus tour Friday in Pennsylvania, gaining a key endorsement in that state ahead of its April 22 primary. Sen. Barack Obama accepts the endorsement of Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Friday in Pittsburgh. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania announced his support of Obama at an event Friday in Pittsburgh, giving a boost to the Democratic candidate’s White House bid in the crucial state.

Gallup: Obama ahead of Clinton by 8 points; McCain leads both 
USA Today – USA
Barack Obama’s lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Gallup’s daily national "tracking poll" grew to 8 percentage points today — putting it just outside the survey’s margin of error. Gallup says Obama has a 50%-42% advantage over his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Yesterday, he held a 48%-44%. The survey firm writes that Obama’s advantage "ties his largest lead of the Gallup Poll Daily tracking program, along with a 50% to 42% showing in Feb. 28-March 1 polling.

Obama Suggests Ex-Pastor Is Contrite 
Guardian – UK
AP foreign By CHARLES BABINGTON AP Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama seemed to suggest in an interview aired Friday that his former pastor has acknowledged that his controversial remarks were inappropriate and hurtful, although there are no public accounts of the minister having done so. Obama discussed his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on ABC’s “The View,” which was taped Thursday and aired Friday. “Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,” Barack Obama said