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Obama Quits Trinity Church
In response to the latest allegations of racism regarding comments by Reverend Michael Pfleger at Reverend Wright's Trinity United Church in Chicago, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have finally resigned from the church. At a press conference Saturday to explain his resignation he called statements by Reverend Moss, current leader of the church, "innocuous." Obama further attacked the media for intruding in lives of church goers.
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Chicago Archdiocese Hammers Father Pfleger (Political Punch)
Another Pastor Complicates Obama’s Campaign (MSNBC)
Obama Quits His Church (The Caucus)
Obama Leaves Trinity (Ben Smith Blog)
Obama: Good-bye to the Trinity Church (Roger L. Simon)
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Redstate)
Obama Quits His Church (Political Radar)
“There is something about this decision that raises more questions than it answers.” (John Podhoretz)
Obama Resigns His Membership at Trinity Church (The Moderate Voice)
Wright Out or Wimp Out (Monroe Anderson)
“There goes that historic, transcendent, life-changing, not since the Gettysburg Address, ‘I have a dream,’ must-be-taught-in-every-school race speech. It didn’t hold up three months, let alone the time it would take to print up new textbooks.” (Amy Holmes)
“So he’s leaving because he doesn’t want TUCC to get further scrutiny, and not because he wants to distance himself from the radical nature of the church. That’s not exactly a profile in courage.” (Ed Morrissey)
“Jesus doesn’t live under a single steeple. …or something like that.” (Taylor Marsh)
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1. Ed O'Shea:Day late and a dollar short Osama!
May 31, 2008 - 4:31 pm 2. Paul:Jesus. Throwing a whole church under a bus. Wow-zaah!
Well, I guess Trinity served it’s purpose. Can’t have any historical past coming around. It would be messing with the New Man branding going on and all that.
I can’t wait to see how the lefty followers take it. Of course I know. They’ll take it seamlessly. Like a school of fish. It will be as if he was never in church for twenty years, and anyone who mentions it is a treat to the dream, the change, hope, future, little puppy dogs and rainbows…
May 31, 2008 - 4:34 pm 3. Terry Gain:More meaningless politicking from the 98 pound weakling. He hopes that this move will distract attention from the fact that he sat in that church and listened to that racist demagogue for 20 years without so much as clearing his throat.
And when our attention was drawn to the vile statements emanating from his mentor he assured us he hadn’t heard a word of this. And then we were told what we had heard was not typical of this man whom he so admired.
And now that the racism in his choice of church has been exposed he ends the association knowing that the mainstream media will praise him for his courqage in confronting bigotry in his own people. Why it’s as if he wasn’t in the thick of it all those years.
This is change alright. Clueless incompetence on every policy issue mixed with eyebrow raising choice of friends and associates. All of which makes his palpable arrogance all the more remarkable.
May 31, 2008 - 4:47 pm 4. Big City Boy:Only twenty years too late. What a phony!
May 31, 2008 - 4:50 pm 5. A. N. Pierson:The mainstream media will now do it’s level best to declare this story over and done with. After all, their Golden Boy has now resigned.
Pajamas Media, I hope you won’t let them.
May 31, 2008 - 4:52 pm 6. Cannoneer No. 4:“It is painfully clear that Senator Obama has publicly discarded decades long relationships because his church has become a hindrance to his political aspirations.
“Only one of the two following options may be true; for the past twenty years Senator Obama was a member of a church fellowship that was the foundation of his spiritual and moral reasoning — or — he sat in the pew of Trinity United Church simply for the political gain such relationships could bring.
“If Trinity United Church was simply a club to improve Obama’s standing in the community, then he is consistent in discarding his membership today, when such gain is gone.
“But if his church membership was truly spiritual — then this action shows a fundamental lack of integrity. Obama’s resignation of membership in Trinity United Church demonstrates that he will trade even on his faith for political advantage.
“As voters, the American people must ask Obama, as president, what closely held value will he trade away next time.” — Rev. Patrick Mahoney
http://christiannewswire.com/news/972216785.html
May 31, 2008 - 5:16 pm 7. dre:Funny only FNC is covering this thing live.
May 31, 2008 - 5:23 pm 8. anonymous:“As voters, the American people must ask Obama, as president, what closely held value will he trade away next time.”
Obviously, his grandmother.
May 31, 2008 - 5:42 pm 9. Former Belgian:If it took the Chicago Machine Messiah 20 years to discover that this “black lubrication theology” church is a bunch of racist kooks, well, either he’s too stupid to breathe unassisted or he is a political opportunist of the worst kind.
I don’t know which of these two options would make him more unfit for the job he seeks.
May 31, 2008 - 5:50 pm 10. Evil Pundit:Anon 5:42, I think it will be Bill Ayers under the bus next.
May 31, 2008 - 5:58 pm 11. i b squidly:I am the Lord your God
You shall have no other gods before me
You shall not make for yourself an idol
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods
At Trinity ‘Blackness’ trumps these.
May 31, 2008 - 6:04 pm 12. Roy Mustang:Obama no longer needs 90% of the black vote. He needs the white vote in Montana. He needs the latino vote in PR. Throw those black voters under bus!
May 31, 2008 - 6:15 pm 13. ZEITGEIST:[...] MORE ON OBAMA QUITTING Trinity, here. [...]
May 31, 2008 - 6:45 pm 14. Lily Bart:Its just ashame He did not have the character to do this a LONG time ago.
May 31, 2008 - 7:11 pm 15. daphne:I don’t know how the media still avoid discussing this. What is
May 31, 2008 - 7:20 pm 16. Obama: gaffe-prone or just really dumb? - UPDATED | The Anchoress:quite clear to any thinking American is that Obama is a hypocrite.
Almost every photo op has Obama backgrounded with the red, white
and blue and he’s restored the flag lapel pin. But all the pretty
images can’t cover up the ugly racism that is part of his spiritual
past and he only now finds convenient, if not urgent to suddenly
distance himself from — those same foul mouthed people who
spout racism and who also mentored and married him.
And our media manages to look the other way!
Hopefully the American people will in large numbers recognize
what the media goes out of its way to avoid — and take this
to the polls in Novemeber.
[...] Obama has quit his controversial church. Pajamas Media has a good round-up. He only needed to get burned TWICE before making a move. Very presidential and reassuring, [...]
May 31, 2008 - 7:29 pm 17. John:Barak Obama is “stuck” in twenty years of the “tar baby” blasphemy of black liberation theological racism. It really is too late for this hypocritical politician to save his behind. You’re “toast”, Senator Obama.
May 31, 2008 - 7:41 pm 18. Misanthropicus:It was twenty years ago today, that
Reverend Wright taught the band to play,
They’ve been going big with style
And sure very few will smile
When I’ll introduce to you
Reverend Wright’s God damn’ America Club Band
We’re God damn’ America Club Band,
I know now you re-live our show,
Sit back and let the evening go.
Reverend Wright’s God Damn’ Club Band,
Reverend Wright’s God damn’ America Club Band
It’s wonderful to be here,
It’s certainly a thrill,
You’re such a stupid audience,
Hussein Obama sure knows the spiel,
Castro, Sadam, Chavez, Putin,
Rezko, Ayres, Fonda, the UN,
Penn, Clooney, Hiss, Agee,
Chomsky, Pfleger, all know the steal,
Wright has groomed Hussein to be an eel,
So they put their numbers on this winning wheel,
You fund the UN – we take our deal,
You’re such a stupid audience,
We’ll sure take you home with us,
You’ll sure foot the bill,
I don’t really want to stop the show,
May 31, 2008 - 7:46 pm 19. B.G.:But I thought you might like to know,
That Hussein’s tuning his song,
And he knows you fools you’ll clap along,
So may I introduce to you
The one and only Hussein Obama —
And reverend Wright’s God damn’ America Club Band…
How do you spell “Obama”?
F-R-A-U-D
May 31, 2008 - 8:04 pm 20. M. Simon:Whatever happened to Audacity and his other daughter Hope? Aren’t they going to be unhappy about missing Sunday School?
May 31, 2008 - 8:27 pm 21. Jack:Maybe the mainstream media might ask about Obama’s law school grades? He didn’t get to Harvard Law Review because of them. Nor did he clerk for a judge afterwards, which all HLR editors do. Except Obama. And there were black judges working at the time he graduated.
May 31, 2008 - 8:28 pm 22. Obama’s Exodus « The View from Alexandria:[...] by philo The Obamas have resigned from Trinity United Church. There’s a list of reactions here. Peter Wehner: Barack Obama’s resignation from Trinity United Church of Christ over, in part, [...]
May 31, 2008 - 8:32 pm 23. Pat:Please send this to everyone you know.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any
inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back. These events are actual events from history. They really happened!!!
Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by Muslim male extremists between the ages o f 17 and 40.
No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people…
Absolutely No Profiling! They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
According to The Book of Revelation: The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM de scent, who will
deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal….the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power,
he will destroy everything.
And Now — For the award winning Act of Stupidity:
Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet —
The Presidency of the United states of America — A Muslim Male Extremist Between the ages of 17 and 40.
Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ??? I’m sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the “unknown” candidate.
Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves — if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story ‘Forrest Gump’ so aptly put it: ‘Stupid Is As stupid Does.’
May 31, 2008 - 8:43 pm 24. platypus:I have always suspected that he isn’t a real lawyer. Real lawyers know when to shut their pie holes.
May 31, 2008 - 8:46 pm 25. Tim Sousley:I guess Obama’s not campaigning just for a Chicago seat now, huh?
May 31, 2008 - 8:56 pm 26. Paul M Hupf:Senator Obama’s expediency, his lack of any conviction except for Marxist “collectivist politics” (expressed in his recent commencement address at Wesleyan as a substitute for Senator Kennedy), inceasingly becomes more evident daily, as does his inadequacy for the elective office he seeks. He will receive and should receive more careful scrutiny than he is accustomed to receive. He is in the national arena now, not in the closed world of Chicago politics.
May 31, 2008 - 9:09 pm 27. Oremus:Just curious….what are the brilliant Barack’s SAT and LSAT scores? And his college undergrad and law school grades?
May 31, 2008 - 9:34 pm 28. Jim Rockford:I’m guessing this move confirms that there is a video of Michelle Obama raving about Whitey(tm) at Trinity. Should be fun when it surfaces.
“I can no more denounce my wife than my Pastor, er oops, my racist granny, er oops again, my Church which represents the Black Community in it’s entirety, er sorry about that. Would you believe [Maxwell Smart voice] Michelle is a fem-bot?”
May 31, 2008 - 9:58 pm 29. Rory:The nipple of Barack’s Soul Exposed
Elaine on Seinfeld said it best, could have been about Barack Obama….
ELAINE: I did not bare myself deliberately, but I tell you, I wish now that I had! Because it is not me that has been exposed, but you! For I have seen the nipple on your soul!
Obama has shown us a glimpse of his soul as he dumps his church…it ain’t very pretty. What a troubled lost man who wants to play president. Barak, go home, find yourself, before it is too late for you to “be a man, and take a stand.”
If you saw Barak Obama give the press conference today where he ditched his church membership, then you saw a very weak man indeed. I don’t agree with his church’s rhetoric but I did expect him to have faith in God’s house of worship and to not be influenced by the media. Senator Obama just does not have the core beliefs and soul to lead our nation.
He said that he refers to scripture every day. How can Senator Obama refer to the bible everyday and live with his own approval of abortion, the murder of God’s unborn children.
Had not Barack Obama read Psalm 23:4 since he said that he referred to the scriptures every day.
Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Barack was on the ropes, hit with criticism. So what, every man is at least once in his life. Barack have not you read:
Matthew 16:8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
Didn’t Obama know that God would provide for him in times of trouble? I just don’t believe this poor lost soul of a man one bit.
May 31, 2008 - 10:17 pm 30. Ed Wallis:This speaks THE ULTIMATE in so many volumes about Obama’s JUDGEMENT…
..which I see as fully UNFIT to DEFEND these Unites States of America.
May 31, 2008 - 10:43 pm 31. NewsGuy:Obama blinked.
Someone in his camp’s done some polling and found that Americans are waking up to the reality of Obama’s Rope-A-Dope-With-Hope-And-Change con game… another example of not being able to fool all the people all of the time!
May 31, 2008 - 11:08 pm 32. frieda:I just finished watching the re-run of the press conference…what a difference he makes with and without a TelePrompTer..It is Just amazing how he is over his head with the run to presidency, he looks like someone’s puppet.
Have a look at this site DEDICATED TO OBAMA’S GAFFES..
http://WWW.OBAMASGAFFES.BLOGSPOT.COM
Jun 1, 2008 - 1:25 am 33. Chuckles the Clown:wow, if everyone is under the bus, how will they know when they have “arrived?”
Jun 1, 2008 - 3:54 am 34. Ed Wallis:All jokes aside…
When Obama says (paraphrasing), “I didn’t see this one coming,” he shows all Americans HOW UNPREPARED/UNPRINCIPLED he would be as President.
Maybe “bringing peace” to him will be surrendering to Iran’s nuclear demands (“It’s the change we’ve been waiting for – peace in our times”),
or
ushering shari’a into U.S. law/society as Europe and Canada have (“My fellow Americans, multiculturalism is America’s destiny, may Allah be praised.”).
Get this trash offstage, please.
Jun 1, 2008 - 4:36 am 35. STIII:The judgement really is superior. Senator Obama has danced this mess around since Rev. BLT Wright fiery sermons came to light and The Senator is still doing it. You finally get to see this guy in a press conference and look/listen to him. And President Bush get pounded for how he talks? It is difficult to listen to the current President’s oratory most of the time no doubt but this guy- there were more uh’s and ah’s and stammering when you get this man off a teleprompter. And what did he say? He’s leaving the church but he is NOT leaving the message of the Church that Wright built. Just like he said after Reverend Wright’s trio of speeches over the weekend recently. First, they were out of context, then after the weekend litany they were actually in context. Barry distanced himself from is spiritual mentor but he said he believed in the good work of the Church. So……..is Barry out because of what Trinity’s Reverends plus the Guest one are doing to his career as the Uniter or because he doesn’t believe their message? Now that’s a tap dance!
Jun 1, 2008 - 4:51 am 36. Anonymous:This election pits a man with a solid identity, rooted in paternal and grand paternal tradition vs. a shape shifting, self inventor who can utterly change from day to day depending on what the pollsters say will sell. He’s a Gatsby, a charmer and a seducer. I’m preparing for the man with no fixed identity to win. Americans believe the myth of self creation, that we can slough off the paternal past and completely re-invent ourselves. When a slick Willy comes along, or an Obama, they activate in their followers narcissistic identification with them and everything seems effortlessly possible.
Jun 1, 2008 - 5:20 am 37. Perry Birman:21 years ago it was a necessity politically for his local south Chicago career. Now it has become an albatross politically when he needs white votes to realize his ambitions, and whites aren’t especially fond of black separatist/supremacist racism…
21 years is a long time for one to come to see the truth. Fact is he saw the truth then and he needed it then. Now it comes back to bite him in the butt.
Robert Byrd could never get elected President because of his KKK past. Obama’s story is not much different. I don’t want a President with a racist background. Obama has one.
Jun 1, 2008 - 5:40 am 38. Mike:Hugh Hewitt recently did a wonderful takedown of Obama’s rhetorical style which you really ought to listen to. It’s funny, but also extremely incisive. Bottom line: most of the time Obama has no idea what he’s talking about.
Go here:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5&page=2
The clip you want is number 29, hour 2 of the May 20 show (clip number 28, which is hour 3, it titled ‘Obama audio’ but it’s clip 29, ‘Dean Barnett’, that you want).
The essence of Hugh’s analysis starts at around 7 minutes and lasts about 3 minutes, but you should listen from the start to get the context, and listen to the rest of the hour, and hour 3, if you have the time.
Someone with more time and expertise than me needs to put this on YouTube.
Jun 1, 2008 - 5:52 am 39. WR Jonas:I don’t know if this is a truthful metaphor (huh?)but in politics and stand up comedy ,timing is everything Meaning, his advisers chose Saturday afternoon to allow the Sunday talk shows a chance “explain” his decision before the public. His short term timing may be okay but he should have taken action after the first Wright tape emerged. Now he looks like an indecisive fool. His electability looks shakier every day.
Jun 1, 2008 - 6:25 am 40. Don:If it looks, walks, talks like a duck . . .it’s a Duck!! Mr. Obama’s reactions to everything are late and passive. He passivity is perhaps a strength for the left (as in easily manipulated in the direction of the dialectic?). Passivity (as Carter decisively proved) is the path to the deaths and enslavement of thousands (if not millions).
He proves his lack of mettle again and again, but as a subsidiary of the Daley political machine independent thought and decisiveness is perhaps perceived undesirable.
Jun 1, 2008 - 6:33 am 41. David P:Cowardly action speaks volumes about Obama’s character, abandoning his ideological fountainhead when the spotlight is on. Gives us an idea of how he’d react as president when the going gets tough, he walks away.
Jun 1, 2008 - 7:44 am 42. Dark Helmet:What I find more distubing is the lack of action, as least as of yet, with the irs going after the tax exempt staus of this false church. (No more mansions for the revs)
It would seem that there are 2 sets of laws. Not surprising given the two very different worlds in which they live.
End political correctness and save America from the soros clan.
Jun 1, 2008 - 8:09 am 43. Dark Helmet:banned for being too real. cowards
Jun 1, 2008 - 8:10 am 44. Candace:In Obama’s own words
This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close attention to the last comment!! Below are a few lines from Obama’s books ‘ his words:
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ; ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
So what is he going to do now-condemn his own writing-He is a racist-He should stay in the church.
Jun 1, 2008 - 9:02 am 45. lee:I remember him saying “I can no more disown Rev. Wright than I can disown the black community”. He probably thought he could brush aside the controversy back then.
Jun 1, 2008 - 10:10 am 46. Dr. Frank Lippenheimer:“Obama further attacked the media for intruding in lives of church goers.”
Why so, Barry? They seem so delighted. Laughing and whoopin’ and shakin’ their fannies. I wish my church was this entertaining. And besides, isn’t it Trinity UCC itself that tapes these things?
Jun 1, 2008 - 10:25 am 47. Believer:I thought this country would never see a more evil couple hungering for the highest office in the land when the Cintons’ shenanigans began to be exposed.
But the Obamas – Barack and Michelle – might have them beat. And I’ve wondered how much of it might be caused by an overly strong, know-it-all
wife imposing her will on her husband – and us.
I have always thought something “wrong” when I’ve witnessed a married couple with the dominate party being the woman. To the extent, I mean, that the man looks weak, ineffectual – and it is repulsive in the extreme – when the man, so dominated and weakened, becomes a pathetic figure.
William Jefferson and Barack Hussein might not appear to be men so weakened that they’ve become pathetic; but as men, neither has grown up. They are pathetic. Their character and judgment reveal it. Neither has a position of appropriate power or strength in his marital relationship.
A good reason to conclude he’d have no power or strength in any other relationship. A fatal flaw for the leader of the free world.
Jun 1, 2008 - 10:32 am 48. Bill in New York:How different is Barry than other politicians who take direction from polls to be elected? They all do it, or they would not be elected. We are witnessing a display of what the American public wants… and will get. It’s ugly, but the voter cares more about getting “their fair share” than electing an honest man.
Jun 1, 2008 - 12:28 pm 49. Richard:I honestly don’t understand how he’s come this far. Who is this man anyway? Does anyone really know? Are we first finding out now he has an evil hidden agenda, only it’s too late?
Hillary seems reasonable now. A year ago, I’d have NEVER considered her for president. Now, with the prospect of Obomba? McCain has my vote if Hillary doesn’t make it. I can’t believe I just wrote that.
Please G-d, let America wake up, and realize that Obomba is not who claims to be.
Amen
Jun 1, 2008 - 1:11 pm 50. Believer:Dr. Frank L. comments on something that took my breath away. I wanted to hear the press conference Q&A again to be sure.
I know he used the word “circus” – and I think he was complaining that that’s what the media had turned their churchgoing into.
Poor Trinity.
The circus isn’t going on outside that building, oh no — it’s in full force in every square inch inside that structure.
Jun 1, 2008 - 1:20 pm 51. Believer:Rush Limbaugh today is offering that Pfleger’s Phlegm (as I call it) was a plan intended to allow Obama to sever all ties to TUCC once and for all. With the added benefit of him being a white man.
I might disagree. In that Pfleger gives us another opportunity to learn that – despite what O. might tell us – this is a relationship, like all O’s others, that goes back decades. And it becomes almost impossible for him to say he doesn’t agree with the views of these “men of God.”
But I do agree with Rush that his leaving TUCC in no way assures us that he will be leaving its teachings. I am more convinced than ever that this man is every bit as racist as all the others.
The chaos and division we’re witnessing in the Dem primary process is but a taste of what we’re in for should he be elected President. This man has already set back race relations with the exposure of the vile words and teachings of his closest advisors and mentors.
We won’t need to look beyond our shores for our enemy. He’ll be in the Oval Office.
Jun 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm 52. Canada:Ed Wallis re: Sharia law in Canada
…”ushering shari’a into U.S. law/society as Europe and Canada have”
Canada most emphatically does NOT allow Sharia law. In 2004, there was an audacious attempt by the Ontario government to allow Sharia law. Large public demonstrations of outrage against the government’s ridiculous proposal, noteable for the number of Muslim women and men involved, put a quick end to any thought of Sharia law in Canada.
Jun 2, 2008 - 3:45 pm 53. Believer:“We probably won’t be making any firm decision on this until January, when we know what our lives are going to be like.”
So said Obama about finding a new church home. Could this be another gaffe?!
Perhaps someone should tell him we’re voting in November…
Jun 3, 2008 - 12:24 am 54. Andrew Ian Dodge:Long may this continue…it would be great to see Obama implode in early Nov. McCain will win by a blowout.
Jun 3, 2008 - 7:42 am 55. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):Bimbo Eruptions vs Radical America-Hating Liberal Eruptions
The last time the Democrat Party was placed under the societal microscope during a period of political consideration for the highest office in the Free World, it was Bill Clinton and the 1992 presidential elections.
In 2008, we all are, again, asked to ignore and accept the philosophical character of the current presumptive candidate the Democrat Party is putting up for the office of President of the United States. Barack Obama holds himself out to be a new type of politician … he is post-racial, a clean living and upstanding family man, and works hard for the betterment of ALL mankind. He is credited with ushering in a new brand of politics. The problem is, that when one begins to look at what has informed Barack Obama, at nearly 48 years old, for the last twenty years of his adult life, one sees a cast of characters that predominately Hate America, and express a separatist, racist attitude toward anyone other than the institutions they come from. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, William (Bill) Ayers, Bernadine Dhorn, and now Father Michael Pfleger have all surfaced and have either been held up and sited as friends or worse, mentors and lifesource guides by Barack Obama through his journey in adult life and Chicago area politics.
The latest of these eruptive episodes of discovery happened a little over one week ago when Father Michael Pfleger took to the pulpit of the church that Obama claimed as his own for the last twenty years (the one he was married to Michelle in, the one that his kids were baptized, and educated on “Christianity” in), and vividly mocked white people and called America “the greatest sin against God.”
Barack Obama’s response, after sitting in the pews of this church for the last twenty years, naming Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger to his campaign steering committee and sighting them as spiritual advisors, was to hold a press conference to announce his family’s withdrawal of membership to the Trinity United Church of Christ.
We, at MAXINE, have to ask, does this automatically end the direction and education of Barack Obama for the last twenty year span of time and influence?
Will Tony Rezko be the next “Radical Eruption” (his trial is set to end soon) to visit the campaign for Barack Obama … or is there another America Hating Priest or Terrorist waiting in the wings to take away the spotlight on Rezko’s apparent corruption of Barack Obama?
Additionally, what in his life will Obama have to disavow or give up next in order to become President?
We are all just sitting here on the road to Carter’s Second Term!
Jun 3, 2008 - 7:46 am 56. Ed Wallis:Dear “Canada,” With respect, I certainly hope you don’t think anything like the Kafkaesque perversions through which Messrs. Levant and Steyn are going have anything in the least to do with Western freedoms…. Your Human Rights Commission is a handy “ushering (re: my remark) tool” indeed.
Jun 3, 2008 - 10:34 am 57. Believer:UH, OH. I made a lighthearted remark above that might have missed the truth.
Edmund Jenks makes a good point. I began thinking about the other associations of O’s that I’ve begun to learn more about.
ACORN being one. I can’t remember the author I read last night who’s pretty much convinced me Obama is not just a political opportunist with his past associations, but one who believes in – and would institute – the radicalism they espouse.
ACORN has a history of voter registration fraud. Obama was its lawyer at one time. And since then, he’s fought stricter voter registration laws. He had so mastered the Alinsky methodology that he taught it to others.
O. said he wouldn’t know until January what their lives would be like. Does he plan to protest a close election – like his cousin Odinga resulting in deaths and rioting (whose campaign Obama was involved in last year) – if he doesn’t win the election? A lifetime of associations would say “yes.”
The evil of the pastors at TUCC inciting anger in the hearts of their congregants is not something that bothers Obama. It’s part of his plan. Churches that merely reach out in charity to aid their communities isn’t enough. Obama wants political groups to join with the churches to institute “change.” And these are the radical groups he’s partnered with for decades.
This is evil. Obama is a liar of the first order. I’m giving him no breaks anymore. Americans had better wake up. We’re going to have a mess on our hands. Isn’t that what he’s given us so far?
Haven’t we all known the family member who makes the poorest life choices, causing the entire family grief. Life descends into chaos and division. Barack Obama at the helm would do just that. He’s not a man of peace and unity.
Jun 3, 2008 - 10:59 am 58. Bobby K Hawk:I personally looked in to Barack Obama and what I am finding is very disturbing, since he will not add concrete information to his opaque rhetoric , We are left to assemble his intentions from is historical actions and associations.
He is a firm supporter of Bernie Sanders, a now Senator from Vermont that is very well associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (the old communist party). Mr Sanders organized the Progressive caucus in the House, a 50+ membered body of socialists which include Nancy Peloci (now Speaker of the House)
Bernie has now moved to the Senate and with his friend and fellow Senator Barack Obama, is organizing said same in the Senate.
The Congress of the united states is now mostly Democratic (very many of which are democratic socialists (old communist party)). The issues is, this congress can not get their socialists legislation past the current president Bush, who opposes socialism and communism. They need a president that will succumb to their needs and wishes.
Enter Barack Obama. With Barack as President the congress which is now controlled by the Democratic Socialists have the opportunity to bring into law Socialism (communism in a pretty package) in the United States.
Why is Barack’s background at Trinity Church so important? Because the church teaches Black Theology of Liberation, a James Cone theological approach which is founded on Liberation Theology, a marrying together of Marxism and Religion. Established by Gustov Gutierrez. Cone married together Liberation theology, Malcolm X views, Black Panther views, and used excerpts from Christianity to make a package called Black Theology of Liberation, It focuses on the complete downfall and destruction of white society in America (very racists). This is why he publicly denounced his church, he can now claim no association with Black theology of Liberation. What an opportunist move… is this what we Americans expect of a president facing our worst enemy (Terrorist Islam)? Will he denounce the USA at the threat of Islam?
This all has historical significance that Barack does not want the American public to see or know.
in the 1960 the communists declared 45 goals needed to overthrow the US government, These communist declared goals were read in to the house record in 10 Jan 1963 by A.S. Herlong of Flordia. These goals are an excerpt from the Naked Communist. (google the 45 communist goals)
Most of these goals have come to pass and can be completely fulfilled if Braack Obama takes office as President of the United States. The socialist congress will be able to enact laws to delete the Federal Republic and replace it with a Socialists Democracy. We will then be part of the one world Socialists International of which the Democratic Socialists of America are a sub chapter. Ruled and governed by the United Nations
Jun 14, 2008 - 6:47 amIn the 1960’s this would have been considered a conspiracy against the government of the United States.
Because the news media, the FBI, and the CIA have been effectively infused by these socialists, nothing will be done and we shall suffer the greatest loss in mankind’s history.