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Obama and Trinity Church: Inseparable Peas in a Leftist Pod
Barack Obama might have grudgingly left his south side congregation of twenty years, but its radicalism will never leave him.
Considerable time and discussion are spent on America’s support for organizations such as the International Court of Justice and the United Nations, but what our country really needs is a free-floating magical tribunal devoted to reinstalling logic into our public square. Today, much of our discourse is thoroughly denatured by emotion-based reasoning, which generally amounts to advocates making use of no reason whatsoever. Thanks to the usurpation of authority and repudiation of our collective pride as a people, irrationality now poses as argumentation while invective masquerades as refutation.
This became evident again the other day when yet another outrage emanated from the upscale confines of Trinity United Church, a facility that until May 31, 2008, was the spiritual home of Senator Barack Obama. This latest imbroglio involved not Reverend Jeremiah Wright but another left-wing clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger.
Before this week the priest had not garnered the same amount of attention as Wright, yet his association with Obama is well documented. Pfleger is both a friend and spiritual endorser of the man upon whose head Newsweek has affixed a halo. As a member of the Illinois Senate, Obama steered $225,000 in pork payola to St. Sabina — Pfleger’s south side Chicago church.
On the Sunday before Memorial Day the Chicago luminary appeared at Trinity and engaged in what undoubtedly was his standard racist shtick — only this time around his diatribe was recorded. The priest did a bizarre vocal impression of a black man while attacking Senator Hillary Clinton for her skin color, a hue of skin that he shares:
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought this is mine. I’m Bill’s wife, I’m white, and this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate. And then out of nowhere came, hey, I’m Barack Obama. And she said oh, damn, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.
Was this also an impersonation of the good news? Hardly. The priest’s mission that Sunday, perhaps as it is every Sunday, was “to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head.” Pfleger leaves the healing and contrition to the other members of his order. To him, vocation is political indoctrination.
The priest immediately — well, not immediately but shortly after the public found out about it — issued an apology: “I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them.” By identifying Obama in his statement, Pfleger acknowledged the blatant connection that any reasonable person would make between the Democratic frontrunner and the folks in whose milieu he has been immersed for twenty years.
Unfortunately, Barack Obama may well be our next president, but he is surrounded by individuals who have nothing but disdain and contempt for our nation. He even shares a bed with one. Clearly, Reverend Wright was no aberration because his replacement, Otis Moss III, is an ideological clone. Moss is well known to Obama, who described him as a “wonderful young pastor.”
The new Trinity headman was profiled by a reporter from the Plain Dealer who observed that he “rolls Scripture and hip-hop lyrics around in the same thoughts as he criticizes the mindset of young black males who’d rather play basketball than learn physics, Bush administration policies, the war in Iraq, and the United States’ free market economy.”
Moss compares passages in the Bible concerning prejudice against lepers to the racism blacks experienced in America. I guess truth can only be immortal when it happens to be all about you. Reverend Moss helps youths learn how to “stand outside the king’s castle and throw rocks, but be prepared to go in and have hors d’oeuvres.” His “Lord’s work” consists of evangelizing for grievance and entitlement.
The new Reverend Wrong left no doubt that he approved of Pfleger’s missive. Last Sunday, as the priest walked away from the pulpit, he announced: “We thank God for the message, and we thank God for the messenger.” Whose God was he thanking? Apparently, not mine.
Trinity’s configuration of God equates with a deity who preaches resentment instead of forgiveness and who defines “neighbor” as being one whose skin color matches your own — or someone like Pfleger when they possess an ardent self-flagellation hobby. Thus, his reign portends more of the same: political leftism first, advancing the views of Christ never … or perhaps secondarily and only then on those occasions when His African background is acknowledged. Yes, at Trinity, it remains all race all the time.
Only an abnormal or deviant Trinity parishioner would fail to accept the views of their leadership as his or her own. Why else would anyone spend a morning listening to such malarkey if they failed to believe it? Personally, I could not remain under their roof for five minutes, but Barack Obama managed to sustain a membership there for two decades. If the “Black Value System” was so anathema then why did he stay?
Presumption lies against Obama’s claims of outrage. Indeed, Father Pfleger once said of him, “I don’t think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is.” I agree. The Democratic candidate has been steeped in anti-white and anti-American dogma since his twenties, so it is a major logical leap to pretend that he failed to internalize it along the way.
Upon deciding to depart from Trinity he proclaimed, “I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church.” The reason he left the church has everything to do with political expediency and nothing to do with its stance on patriotism and race. He ascertained that his longtime affiliation with Trinity now stood between his ambition and his goal — which, as we are slowly beginning to discover, is a space few non-masochists would ever want to occupy — so he cut the chord.
Given all that has happened in relation to the spiritual center to which he once donated $22,500, only a diehard leftist could continue to believe that where there is so much smoke there can be no fire. Judging from the reception Pfleger received at the pulpit last week, it would be impossible not to intuit, over a twenty-year period, that the congregation feels exactly the same way as Wright, Moss, and Pfleger do about America and its Caucasian citizens. Hopefully, the deluded nature of their perceptions will make the electorate realize that the only forces Obama can unite this fall are a coalition of the disaffected, the ignorant, and those pseudo-liberals permanently debilitated by white guilt.
Yet, even though the mainstream media refuses to add the name of Obama to the thriving partnership of hate speech known as Wright, Pfleger, and Moss, there is no reason to think the Democratic nominee views his homeland through a different lens than the one they use. Logic dictates that nobody would ever spend that long in a den of zealotry if they were not at least sympathetic to the opinions of those who dwelled there.
When one removes the glitz from this scenario and contemplates it in the context of their own mundane life, its fallacious nature becomes readily evident. For example, were readers to discover that I subscribed to National Review, attended National Review events, termed William F. Buckley a “spiritual mentor,” and donated thousands of dollars to the magazine’s not-for-profit foundation, could they safely assume I was a conservative? To pose the question is to answer it.
We know that Obama hails from a radical church and that he possesses a radical voting record, so why would anyone regard this hero of progressives as being anything other than a left-wing radical? The mainstream media will continue to ignore every shred of evidence elucidating their champion’s controversial past. Their blindness personifies George Orwell’s phrase, “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Yet let us pray that discerning reality will not prove as daunting for the American people come November.
Bernard Chapin wrote Women: Theory and Practice and Escape from Gangsta Island, along with a series of videos called Chapin’s Inferno. You can contact him at veritaseducation@gmail.com.
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1. Olivia:I will never forgive Obama for for excusing Wright’s rantings and trying to pass off Trinity as just another black church. It is not! It is Marxism in Christian drag. I wonder if Obama even has any core beliefs.
Jun 6, 2008 - 10:39 am 2. David Thomson:The fact that Rev. Wright’s antics have not completely destroyed Barack “Barry” Obama’s campaign should frighten any rational thinking person. A candidate attending a similar religious institution advocating white power beliefs would be forced out of national politics. Some well-meaning folks contend that Americans should be proud that a man of color could become our next president. This shows that we have become less racist. Unfortunately, they conveniently overlook the obvious fact that Obama is taking full advantage of white guilt. He is pushing a quasi-fascist message emphasizing trust in the great leader over substance. Anti-intellectualism and contempt for evidence underpin the movement. No, this is a frightening time. We best wake up before it’s too late.
Jun 6, 2008 - 10:59 am 3. Jon C:This is kind of like saying “McCain may have left the Episcopal Church, but his advocacy for gay clergy remains strong.”
We all have friends – even family – who say and do things we don’t agree with. Sorry, that dog won’t hunt. “thriving partnership of hate speech”? Nice turn of phrase, catchy, but puh-lease…
Jun 6, 2008 - 11:48 am 4. Ed Wallis:David Thomson, the “antics” have not destroyed Obama’s campaign among Democrats in the primary. The effect on all those voting in the general election in November is entirely another matter.
Jun 6, 2008 - 11:57 am 5. huxley:Well said, Bernard! Good points, David!
It’s hard for me to understand why this is so hard for Americans to get. It seems that they just don’t want to.
Jun 6, 2008 - 12:09 pm 6. David Thomson:“We all have friends – even family – who say and do things we don’t agree with.”
Bovine excrement. None of us would ever continue attending a church advocating positions utterly contradicting our most cherished values. We might cut slack on a few minor issues—but not those deemed substantial. I also suspect that Jon C. completely agrees with me! This individual would almost certainly be saying the exact opposite if Barack “Barry” Obama was a member of a white racist religious institution.
Jun 6, 2008 - 12:16 pm 7. huxley:Ed — True enough but current polls show Obama doing well, better than McCain in some, across the general public.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that you’re right, that Obama’s credibility has been crippled for non-Democrats, but I’m not optimistic. I think McCain has an uphill battle on his hands.
Jun 6, 2008 - 12:20 pm 8. Dave:“…the only forces Obama can unite this fall are a coalition of the disaffected, the ignorant, and those pseudo-liberals permanently debilitated by white guilt.”
So true…but that “ignorant” catagory is SOOOOO damn large! Obama can continue his “smoke and mirrors” campaign (like his speech today on not accepting lobbyist or PAC money, when MANY lawyers for lobbyist’s law firms are working in his campaign) probably for months until more gaffes are made, more tapes come out, and the picture finally starts to take hold.
This is just the start of a loooong hard look at Obama’s past and his associates…it’s not going to stop, and his campaign will soon look like the little dutch boy sticking his fingers in all the leaking holes!
Jun 6, 2008 - 12:49 pm 9. ts:You guys can talk til your blue in the face about what a “reactionary” Obama is, but it still won’t get traction.
But I hear there’s some WMD in Syria. Get crackin’, fellas!
Jun 6, 2008 - 1:22 pm 10. mishu:ts, Israel took care of a big chunk of it. Of course you believe the lie passed around by democrats, “The invasion of Iraq has NOT* made us any safer!” despite the fact there hasn’t been any terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
* Be sure to punch your fist when you hit NOT in that statement.
Jun 6, 2008 - 2:31 pm 11. GM Roper:Mr. Chapin: “To pose the question is to answer it.”
Sadly, no one in the liberal press will even bother to think of the question, let alone pose it.
Excellent article sir!
Jun 6, 2008 - 2:58 pm 12. mjk:ts, Don’t worry sweetcheeks, if there are any WMD’s left in Syria, Mossad will sniff them out.
I should think the orgasmic, blind faith reactions of the Obama followers should be a concern to all Americans. He’s not the Messiah. He’s not even a particularly good politician. But hey, according to him, he’ll be president in 2016 so maybe we should all fall in line and worship the Obama-Messiahness.
Jun 6, 2008 - 3:03 pm 13. Sandra M:Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Reverend Moss Bill & Bernardine Ayers, Rezko and now — drumroll please:
cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting
to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first
widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American
but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your
half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your
New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out
the following link for verification of that….and for more.
Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and
tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the
elections, his followers have burned Christians’ homes and then burned
men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took
shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here
started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
There are 27 other interesting facts about our Arab-American candidate. Dad was 87% Arab and listed as such on his birth certificate. All 3 of Obama’s names are Arab — not Swahili as he said.
see Dean’s comments to Rick Moran’s column on McCain Obama on June 4 5:26 am.
Jun 6, 2008 - 5:24 pm 14. Frank Logan:Liberals have always been like a herd of sheep. Contently going about their lives, munching on the tall grass, waiting for the shepherd to tell them what to do. Very few try to break away from the herd. BAA
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Jun 7, 2008 - 7:46 am 16. Bill in New York:Hell… what’s even scarier than what you are writing about is the fact that you are shocked by it, and assume the majority of Americans will share your reaction (they won’t)… you have to be living in some kind of isolation not to see the same socialist beliefs being openly expressed with pride (perhaps with less ‘black’ bias, but what do you expect in a black church is Chicago?) all across America from working class white blue collar unions, to the ACLU, to just about any college or university… it’s everywhere man! I got brothers, uncles, sh@*! man MOST of my relatives are died in the wool democrats who fought for their country or at least served in the military… and they have bought into this socialist democrat bovine excrement as someone earlier so well described it… they blame capitalism and corporations and lumb even small business private enterprise under the umbrella of “greedy, evil, business” which of course means “white, racist, Republican”, right? Compare that mindset to what Lenin espoused to justify murdering millions in the Marxist revolution… it saddens me to see even my own relatives who fought in wars to defend this Nation, follow like mindless sheep to slaughter as we lose the war of ideas and our freedom with it, within our own borders and our own people… God help us, those of us who have fortunately found a way to see through the brainwashing from the time we entered the public school system… we really gotta get involved, or it will soon be too late.
Jun 7, 2008 - 8:50 am 17. Donna:Frank Logan, libs do need a shepherd to tell them what to do (and think), but I wouldn’t say they contentedly go about their lives. For the past 8 years they’ve been seething and fuming with hatred. Now they’ve located their messiah, the one who apparently will transform not only the US, but all humanity.
If McCain manages to win in November, I wouldn’t be surprised if rioting breaks out. The hatred the moonbats have for Bush will be nothing compared to the venom they will direct at McCain – the old white guy who stood in the way of the Second Coming of the Lord.
Jun 7, 2008 - 9:14 am 18. Will Becker:Again I say wake up America,Barako is no American!!!!
Jun 7, 2008 - 3:18 pm 19. mkevinf:A well written article and some very interesting posts to consider.
Jun 7, 2008 - 7:07 pm 20. Obama and Trinity Church: Rev. Otis Moss III A Chip Of The Old Block : BigMouthFrog:I agree that Barry-O is – you’ll pardon the phrase – shuckin’ and jivin’ when it comes to Trinity, Wright, et al.
I think the fear of the nation going to hell in a rickshaw are unfounded, however. I’m a Democrat, slightly left of center, but I recall that even with a Democratic majority in Congress, Bill Clinton – whom I admire – got his tax bill through by one vote in each house. And we all know how enthusiastically the Democratic congress pushed Hillary’s, or any, proposal of universal health care. Not!
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Jun 8, 2008 - 12:01 pm 21. Believer:Excellent article, and one that hopefully gets wide circulation.
The truth about this man should be revealed as often as possible over the next 5 months – especially to the Black community. The last few days I’ve been posting facts about Obama on a site that Blacks and liberals frequent.
I just hope the Blacks who’ve recognized Obama’s duplicity, will take the ball and run with it, convincing others that this man is dangerous for us all.
Jun 8, 2008 - 1:54 pm 22. tanstaafl:His (Reverend Moss’) “Lord’s work” consists of evangelizing for grievance and entitlement.
As did the Reverend Wright. A perpetual grievance machine, some of the grievances concocted out of thin air.
While “The Lord” shakes his head in sorrow at how poorly his work is understood by so many of his creatures.
Jun 8, 2008 - 7:08 pm 23. Bruce - Malaysia:This year the dyed-in-the-wool liberal Dems are running against Bush, not McCain. They just want to paint McCain with the Bush brush. Even though Obama is an empty shell that can speak well in a prepared speech, whenever I see him in an interview and he is asked a question for which he doesn’t have a scripted reply, he stutters, stammers, and smiles a lot.
This year the Dems would vote for Sponge Bob Square Pants against Abraham Lincoln because their hatred for Bush has completely blinded them. Their mantra should be, “My mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts.”
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