NObama
Posted on 11/02/2008 12:08:10 AM PDT by A_Niceguy_in_CA
By Bob Allen
Friday, 31 October 2008
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Oct. 29 remarks by Michelle Obama to an African-American Baptist gathering violated federal tax law.
According to media reports, the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate told about 1,000 delegates to the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, meeting in Fayetteville, that her husband understands the struggles of working families and offers the leadership America needs.
"Don't we deserve a president with that perspective, someone who knows first-hand the heartbreak caused by a broken health care system and is determined to fix it?" she asked, according to the Fayetteville Observer. "Don't we deserve a leader who gets it? Well, Barack Obama gets it."
"I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and woman and honor all of God's creation," she said, according to the Associated Press. "I also come here as a wife who loves my husband, and I believe my husband will be an extraordinary president."
Barry Lynn, president of the Washington-based Americans United, said the speech was inappropriate for a tax-exempt religious group.
"This was an Obama campaign rally taking place during the meeting of a religious group," Lynn said. "Federal tax law simply does not allow religious organizations to sponsor events like this."
Federal tax law permits 501(c) (3) tax-exempt charities to invite political speakers for non-political purposes, but bans churches and other religious groups from endorsing candidates. In an Oct. 30 letter to the IRS, Lynn said the appearance by the candidate's wife "appeared very similar” to the sort of campaign appearance upon which the tax code frowns.
"In short, I believe this appearance by Ms. Obama before this religious group raises a host of issues, and I urge the IRS to investigate the matter," Lynn wrote.
In February the IRS launched an investigation into Sen. Barack Obama's 2007 address to the General Synod of the United Church of Christ. In May the agency ruled that Obama's speech -- agreed to before he had announced his presidential candidacy and addressed to members of his own denomination -- did not qualify as a political speech.
About the same time the IRS ruled that former Southern Baptist Convention vice president Wiley Drake's use of his California church’s resources to endorse Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee also was not "prohibited political campaign intervention."
The rules and laws are for the “little people” not Democrats.
Clinton and the rest of the gang have been doing it for years.
They just threw a *church* under the bus?
Hey, but check out this guys site, it's plain talk, but he's got it right. http://phuckbarack.web.officelive.com/2.aspx
Bring down the walls of forbidding the freedom of speech in all churches.
yeah, well, good luck with that.
Maybe ‘Chelle [who’s married to a “constitutional scholar”] was not aware of the illegality of rattling off a political speech in church.
Killing babies?
That reminds me of a point I was making to a friend of mine. For these two “lawyers”, they sure as hell are breaking the law a LOT. With “auntiegate”, the plagiarism of speeches (yes I went there), their website “lottery”, illegal land-deals, and that’s just the tip of the ice berg. I wonder if they’ll be prosecuted for ANYTHING after the elections.
Who better to break laws than those who know the ways around them, best?
"I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and woman and honor all of God's creation," she said, according to the Associated Press. "I also come here as a wife who loves my husband, and I believe my husband will be an extraordinary president."
God taught that everyones "burden to the king" should be equal, regardless of that persons wealth. God did NOT say steal from those who work harder to obtain greater wealth. In fact God rewards those who work hard with greater abundance.
God expects those who achieve greater abundance, to help the sick and poor, but not provide for the lazy and listless by having their abundance stolen.
Don't YOU get it Michelle? You're lying husband doesn't "get it" either. And because of that, he's going to destroy our health care system, and cause greater suffering by burdening those who can least afford it to pay MORE than they do now, for much, much less in return.
I can say one other thing, Obama, your husband will be the LAST (half) black elected to be president for a very, very long time afterward. Liars tend to spoil it for others like them that follow.
I thought the problem with this kind of address pertained to politicians speaking in the church itself or on church property. If the the church group is meeting in convention mode somewhere other than church facilities, and the speaker is invited, then I thought it was acceptable.
You know you are absolutely correct?
And that got me thinking. I realize that the corrupt and biased media have shilled and covered up for him, but what is to say this won't carry over if The Messiah (GOD FORBID) gets the nod
Based on everything we have seen to date, I don't doubt for one minute that we will have to come up with something even slicker than Teflon.
If we think Klintoon got away with murder (pun intended) just imagine what an (African American) Barry in the Oval Office will be able to get away with?
Oh, come on....
You know as well as I do that this law was intended to stop REPUBLICANS from politicking in churches, NOT Democrats!
After all, it’s those evil evangelicals in that hate-group called “Christians” that keep resisting “CHANGE!”, and we just can’t have that, now can we!
No Democrat will EVER be charged under this law, because they can claim it’s not a church, but a “Community Organizing Service Point”!
Love the sarcasm, Whewww, I'm still laughing. But with all honesty, Obama is one dumb schmuck. Most of all, he is a prime example of what Affirmative Action creates.
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