Opinion: A Michelle Obama excerpt, discussing Jeremiah Wright

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In an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama that NBC’s ‘Today’ show will air Thursday -- with excerpts aired this evening on NBC’s ‘Nightly News’ -- Meredith Vieira asked the candidate’s wife whether she believed that the couple’s former longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had betrayed her husband.

‘I think Barack has spoken so clearly and eloquently about this,’ Michelle Obama said.

‘But do you personally feel that the Rev. Wright ... ,’ asked Vieira, probing for more.

‘You know what I think, Meredith? I think we gotta move forward,’ Michelle said. ‘You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids. You know, it doesn’t help kids out there who are looking for us to make decisions and choices about how we’re going to better fund education.’

-- Mark Silva

Mark Silva writes for the Swamp of the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau.