Talk-show host Tavis Smiley tackles Obama and race (AP)

Iraq denied Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had made remarks backing US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's, seen here in June 2008, plan to withdraw troops from the country and demanding a quick pullout.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - Tavis Smiley is all wound up. His voice is rough from too much vocalizing, but the host of public television’s “Tavis Smiley” talk show and public radio’s “The Tavis Smiley Show” is on an oratorical roll about race, politics, and his fellow African-American, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

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