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Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) torched Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock for hosting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 1995 during a rally on Wednesday. Rubio and Bonnie Perdue, Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) wife, held a rally at the Cobb County, Georgia, GOP headquarters.

The Early Show did its best this morning to help Barack Obama dig out of the hole he's dug for himself with his close association with Jeremiah Wright. In a set-up segment, CBS's Dean Reynolds rhetorically asked: "the question is whether the rhetoric is so remarkable, because in African-American churches pastors often seek to rouse their congregants to self-reliance by speaking harshly about the country's troubled racial past and the need to overcome it." Nice try, but how does accusing the US government of introducing AIDS and giving black people drugs equate to a call for self-reliance? Reynolds concluded by...

Born in July 1949, Calvin Butts is one of the most prominent figures in new York's black clergy. He is the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, a historic house of worship in Harlem, New York. ... Butts is a great admirer of militant black leaders like Malcolm X, to whom he has referred as an "inspiring figure" and "our black shining prince." ...In 1983, when then-Mayor Ed Koch raised doubts about an alleged instance of police harassment of blacks, Butts charged, on no specific evidence, that the mayor was "worse than a racist." ... In 1998, Butts smeared New...