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Barack Obama's longtime pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, who in his sermons blamed the Sept. 11 attacks on America and said Sen. Hillary Clinton had an advantage over Obama because she is white, was removed from the Obama campaign. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no longer serving on the African American Religious Leadership Committee, campaign sources told CNN in a story published Friday.The announcement of Wright's departure came after Obama Friday denounced some of the ministers's sermons, calling them "inflammatory and appalling...I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies," Obama wrote on the liberal Web site Huffingtonpost.com about Wright's recently surfaced sermons.The sermons in question were highlighted in an ABC News report earlier this week."Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home. Barack was," Wright says in a video of the sermon posted on YouTube. A sermon from Wright shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorism attacks is said America had brought on the attacks with its own practice of terrorism.Still, Obama defended his 20-year relationship with Wright, saying that the pastor has served him in a spiritual role-not a political one.He also said he had not heard the controversial sermons.As in the days of Noah....
