We still don’t know if he was there the day the pastor said “God D*mn America”. That isn’t necessarily what he said on July 22.
Drudge now has this article linked.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9104.html
“Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church?” Obama said. “Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely — just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.”
No one in the press has pointed out this statement made just 3 days prior:
"I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made."
He is going to have to explain that.
From the article:
Obama also said, in effect, that some white people simply don’t get black churches. “They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear,” Obama said. “The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and, yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.”
This is pure B.S.
I belong to an Evangelical church and a denomination that has African American members and pastors. The sing in the choir, preach from the pulpit, lead mission, and pray with me (a white man) as brother and sisters.
They have the love of Christ in their hearts.
Dr. Tony Evans is a real Christian who is also black.
I "get" that, him, and other black Christians.
Obama is now trying to talk down to his critics and say they just don't get blacks for acting celebratory. That isn't the issue. The issue his pastor preaching things that are un-Christian in deed, manner, and word.