Posted on 03/15/2008 12:29:04 PM PDT by pissant
When Sen. Barack Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ 20 years ago, little did he know that the church’s charismatic pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., would become a flashpoint in a Democratic presidential primary.
Wright, an activist pastor who brought the South Side church from a 85-member congregation to an 8,000-member mega-church, has been under constant attack on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” as a “cult” and “separatist” church.
In an interview, Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times that, despite the controversy swirling around Wright over racial comments he made from the pulpit about Sen. Hillary Clinton, he is not abandoning his church.
“We are still members of the church,” Obama said.
At the same time, Obama strongly condemned the racially explosive language attributed to Wright.
“The particular statements that have been pulled out of Rev. Wright’s sermons are ones that I profoundly disagree with,” Obama said, adding that he has never been at Trinity when Wright made similar remarks.
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“I have felt frustrated by how the church has been characterized and by the suggestion that this is somehow a separatist church and by other statements made on these talk shows,” he said.
“Anybody who has been to the church knows this is a terrific, welcoming church,” Obama noted. Trinity “is a wonderful faith community that has done very positive things in the community and also in my life.”
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That clip of Wright saying “God damn America” alone will lose the election for Obama.
8 thousand members? Wow. I didn’t realize it was THAT big.
Seriously, are there ANY white people in this church?
I’m inclined to say “no”.
Yeah, but he wasn’t troubled by the church’s attacks on America.
Whites are supposed to know their role by now--go into paroxyms of guilt over the history of how white Americans have treated "people of color." The last thing they should do is to demand Barack explain what he really believes or really intends to do if he becomes President.
Listen, even if he had not been at the church when these, or other hateful remarks, had been issued from the "pulpit"; Obama is a close friend to this man. He has to have had this man over for dinner or other such gatherings. Do you think that this man has never made similar remarks during his day-to-day conversations with people.
I simply don't believe that Obama has never heard this man say things like this, while in the pulpit or out of it.
LOL! "Charismatic". You gotta love it.
I suppose Hitler would be called "giddy" on occasion.
I’ve been warning people that Obama has been using the same speech patterns and cadence as a southern tent preacher, ever since I heard him speak at the Democrat convention and saw the Black audience respond to the buzz words with their bodies swaying to his cadence and their arms in the air.
Then another poster told me that these were typical crowd mind control tactics that are taught by communists and Marxists. I looked it up, the poster was right, straight out of the Marxist handbook.
Hannity had the new preacher from Trinity UCC on last night and he spoke the same way, with same cadence and inflections that Obama and Wright use.
Nice! ....and so unfortunately true!
Well, it would be hard for such a "reverend" to actually say that Jesus was a Jew; since he seems to be anti-semitic as well as anti-white.
Have the Dems and the Hillary camp condemned this yet? They are even worse than Obama in their silence because they are the importers of this sort of feminist terrorism.
Such theology is sweeping through the black churches like New Age theology swept through the Christian churches in the eighties and nineties.
Obama's church bothers me.
Indeed, we have Goebbels multiplying in the US and we do nothing about it.
A couple of weeks back I read an article in a paper comparing her to Jackie Kennedy. Both fairly tall, well dressed and having an affinity for pearl necklaces. That was at the height of the liberal media fawning over Obama ... it seems the tone is beginning to change.
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