Obama says race not "overriding issue" in criticism

2009/09/18 19:32:06 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday some of the opposition he faced was because of his race but denied former President Jimmy Carter's charge that racism was a leading factor in angry criticism of his healthcare agenda. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=iJM0wUrX-D0:Sr5IPSH15rU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=iJM0wUrX-D0:Sr5IPSH15rU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=iJM0wUrX-D0:Sr5IPSH15rU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=iJM0wUrX-D0:Sr5IPSH15rU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=iJM0wUrX-D0:Sr5IPSH15rU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/iJM0wUrX-D0" height="1" width="1"/
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