He met with people in the White House and people want to know well what special favors was he asking for and the White House won't say yet.

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As for progress onto his next belt, blue, he is "in no great rush because I want to go to another competition as a white belt".

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But at the same time he doesn't want to be defined as the black candidate in the race, realizing the possibility that white voters would be turned off to that.

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Mr Obama may want to use his time with Mr Warren to explain to white, middle-American Christians what he saw in the feisty black church he has left.

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