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9:57 AM, Jun 5, 2008 • By SAMANTHA SAULT

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ABC News took a look at the "10 worst running mates Barack Obama could choose." It's a who's who of Obama's controversial friends and supporters: Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Michael Pfleger, and the Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, to name a few. As ABC's Jake Tapper said in the report, recently indicted superdelegates Kilpatrick and Congressman William Jefferson made the list because "by waiting until the last minute to announce their support for Obama, they showed their loyalty, which is a pro. On the con side, they could soon be cons."

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