Posted on 03/15/2008 3:32:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
In his Friday night cable mea culpas on the incendiary comments made by his spiritual adviser Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., repeatedly said, "I wasn't in church during the time that these statement were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel. ... If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit. ... If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church, then I wouldnt feel comfortable there."
Obama told CNN that he "didn't know about all these statements. I knew about one or two of these statements that had been made. One or two statements would not lead me to distance myself from either my church or my pastor. ... If I had thought that was the tenor or tone on an ongoing basis, then yes, I don't think it would have been reflective of my values."
But according to a New York Times story from a year ago, the Obama campaign dis-invited Wright from delivering a public invocation at Obama's candidacy announcement.
Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack, Wright told the Times. One of his members had talked him into uninviting me."
In a phone call with Wright, Obama cited a Rolling Stone story, The Radical Roots of Barack Obama," (the name of which has curiously been changed on the RS website) and told him, according to Wright, You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what weve decided is that its best for you not to be out there in public.
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I can see the drudge siren now...
Barack is smart and probably wanted to leave this loony toon “church”
My bet is Michelle kept them there and had their two daughters baptized thee. Michelle got to hang with all her loony friends there too
Barrack was too busy and in Washington DC to change this situation
Did Barrack get baptized there or is he still a crypto Muslim????
Guess he didn’t have any idea about his “church’s” Black Value System either.
Just like BJC didn’t inhale.
And I’ve never seen David Duke in Klan garb but I’m pretty certain from other accounts he’s been associate with them.
Give me a break Obama. After 20 years you knew what kind of rhetoric was preached there. Hell I suspected as much just from looking at the website for the church.
I noticed it is sounding more like he didn’t attend too often. Maybe part of the Easter/Christmas crowd and thats mostly for appearances.
I told you they would nail his butt....they are working the problem as I type.
It’s only splashed all over the TCC website.
One other possibility: Obama witnessed this hate speech but didn't think anything about it because it was the same stuff he heard day after day in his life routine. When it's part of your daily life, red flags are not going to go up when you hear it from the pulpit.
Senator OsamaObama: define "rough"
Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.
When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obamas deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.
Wright says that blacks cant be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesnt salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.
we used to call those types “Sprinkle Christians”
the only times they’re in church is to get ,...
#1 sprinkled with Holy Water
#2 sprinkled with rice
#3 sprinkled with dirt
Exactly! Of all of my pastors sermons, I beleve that I would remember the ‘racist’ ones. Try again Barrock, as this story trumps Bill’s “ I never inhaled” lie. I expect more out of the president.
It’s not about sermons. It’s about attitude! You can’t attend a church for 20 years and not catch a whiff of the minister’s attitude.
BTW, why is Mrs. Obama so quiet on this issue?
If he didn’t go to church the day J. Wright preached that sermon, he should have at LEAST gone on the Internet to the website and seen what was going on. It is so absolutely totally disgusting. I can’t believe this kind of stuff goes on in pulpits, and they qualify for a TAX deductions when they so OPENLY endorse their candidate. I’ve known very small churches of WHITE people in New York that lost their case because they paid for an AD in the local newspaper, they lost their tax exempt status. Bill Clinton saw to it that they wouldn’t be able to continue as a 401 (c) non profit religious organization.
And the Republicans dropped Duke like a hot potato; something neither Obama nor the Democrats have the integrity to do.
They put us average folks on juries out here in la-la land and they do it for a reason. cause the political elites have no common sense and us common folk do.
Obama is not going to pass the smell test of us jury-serving folks.
The American public ain’t going to buy that this guy went to this church for twenty years and didn’t know about the lovely Pastor Wright’s fine and loving Christian self and his sweet, inspirational sermons. This might be hard to believe, but a lot of us go to a church and we know damn well that twenty years of attending the same church with the same minister and we’d know everything that pastor was preaching.
Add to it the personal Mrs. Obama-yo-mama and her lack of pride in her country, Obama’s stupid reason for not wearing an American flag pin and that famous pic of him refusing to put his hand over his heart....and...hey....
The American public will find Obama GUILTY.
No matter what lie he says just like the criminal on trial.
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