Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point

Report from Telegraph.co.uk, By Tim Shipman in Raleigh, North Carolina:

Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed.

Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.

Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband's desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings.

Her husband was thinking "I can't let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal," she said.

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