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Obama: Actually, I can quit you
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Salena Zito

Posted on 06/01/2008 6:20:57 AM PDT by Salena Zito

Obama: Actually, I can quit you Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito WASHINGTON -- After the second Academy Award-winning performance by a pastor at his family's church, Trinity United in Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama quit his parish.

Robert Gibbs, Obama's campaign communications director said Obama had resigned from the church "over the last few days."

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


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To: Sacajaweau

The New York Times reported in early May that the Catholic Church run by Rev. Pfleger received a $100,000 earmark from Sen. Obama and that Pfleger is one of the religious leaders whose “faith testimonials” is posted on the Obama presidential campaign Web site.


21 posted on 06/01/2008 7:13:49 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

LOL!


22 posted on 06/01/2008 7:18:26 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Salena Zito
Obama quit his faith, loses his religion. Obama may revert back to Muslim!
23 posted on 06/01/2008 7:18:39 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Salena Zito; PhilDragoo; potlatch; devolve; pissant; Ernest_at_the_Beach

It is a safe guess that Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas’s focus groups and internal polls and the DNC’s show that Middle America will no longer tolerate Black Racism and Black Racist POS’s posing as ministers. Nor will they vote for a Black Racist, who hates America, Whites and real Christians and Jews.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_el_pr/obama

There is no way that Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas would have left this anti America Black Racist POS phoney church if not for the internet, Sean, Rush, U Tube and other sources of the real news.

The next target of opportunity are the longtime Anti America black and white mentors/buddies of Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas’s past and present.


24 posted on 06/01/2008 7:19:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas's Pastor Wright: "God Damn America, U.S.to Blame for 9/11")
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To: Sacajaweau

The nutty priest is a long-time friend of the church, preaches to his own largely black church, and has been for reparations.


25 posted on 06/01/2008 7:23:00 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: snippy_about_it
National Review Online links to the NY Times article (subscription required):
Houston, we have a problem. New York Times from May 11:

Typical of Mr. Obama’s earmarks was a $100,000 grant for a youth center at a Catholic church run by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a controversial priest who was one of the few South Side clergymen to back Mr. Obama against Mr. Rush.

Father Pfleger has long worked with South Side political leaders to reduce crime and improve the community. But he has drawn fire from some quarters for defending the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and inviting him to speak at his church. Father Pfleger, who did not return calls for comment, is one of the religious leaders whose “faith testimonials” Mr. Obama has posted on his presidential campaign Web site.

David Axelrod, the chief strategist for the Obama presidential campaign, said that Father Pfleger was “remaking the face” of Chicago’s South Side and that all of Mr. Obama’s earmarks went to worthy programs like his. 05/29 10:32 PM

Obama will have a hard time distancing himself from a priest for whom he made the effort of making an earmark for
26 posted on 06/01/2008 7:27:51 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: snippy_about_it
The New York Times reported in early May that the Catholic Church run by Rev. Pfleger received a $100,000 earmark from Sen. Obama ...

Very interesting. Let's crunch some numbers, shall we? Let's say -- for the sake of discussion -- that every American tax-paying family pays $10,000.00 a year in taxes. OK?

So this means that 10 tax-paying American families go to work everyday, toil day in and day out, for an entire year, to make money that provides Pleger with his $100.000.00 earmark.


27 posted on 06/01/2008 7:30:49 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“parish” is not exactly the word to use with a “stand alone” church.


28 posted on 06/01/2008 8:20:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
“stand alone” church.

And this is an oxymoron.

29 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:14 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: Salena Zito

Everyday ... just a little more interesting.


30 posted on 06/01/2008 9:21:25 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Salena Zito
"Obama's resignation is a complete departure from his now famous 'race speech' in Philadelphia where said he disagreed with Wright but portrayed him as a family member he couldn't quit."

This is the point that needs to be emphasized. Barry played that speech with such apparent sincerity that the entire left was calling the greatest speech since "I have a dream". Now Barry has acknowledged through his actions that it was complete, utter 100% BS.

31 posted on 06/01/2008 9:28:49 AM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Obama and his merry band of bigots are going to lose in November. The Dems have definitely given up the high moral ground this election. They always start out with it because they tend to complain about social problems. Now, they represent a social problem: anti-white bigotry.


32 posted on 06/01/2008 10:21:32 AM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: Salena Zito

20 years too late


33 posted on 06/01/2008 10:23:47 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
So now it's just down to the Father and the Holy Ghost.

EXCELLENT!

We have already seen that Obama prays to HIMSELF:

But he does find time to pray.
"It's not formal, me getting on my knees," he says. "I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.
On the other hand, Obama certainly has a very clear understanding of what it means to be “a Christian:”
His mother, he says, was a Christian.
In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as "a lonely witness for secular humanism."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
DG

34 posted on 06/01/2008 11:12:26 AM PDT by DoorGunner ( "...and so, all Israel will be saved.")
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To: Salena Zito

O’Bama Shrugged


35 posted on 06/01/2008 11:13:26 AM PDT by RightWhale (We see the polygons)
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To: Salena Zito
The Great Obomanation’s inability to stop smoking shows a lack of personal control where his mind is unable to gain control over his bodily cravings. Perhaps tinged with a emotional weakness which leads him to seek out a chemical crutch to support sooth his knowledge of his inabilities to coap with unpleasant realities.
36 posted on 06/01/2008 11:20:38 AM PDT by fella (Is he or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
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To: fella

Golly gee willikers, the guy is a Marxist, elitist, America hating, leftist, dangerous pacifist...and the only thing you can “THINK” is wrong with him is that he smokes cigarettes.

WAYR?


37 posted on 06/01/2008 11:47:34 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Golly Gee, are you so shallow that you can't see an underlying personality weakness revealed by his inability to follow through on a personal goal of stopping to smoke. It's an indicator of his inability to follow through on any goals (Re: Campaign Promises) that he sets for himself in any arena. The man can not control himself much less another person or organization, instead they will control him.
38 posted on 06/01/2008 12:03:03 PM PDT by fella (Is he or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Muslims and the Trinity don’t mix!

Hey, he can always fall back on Allah.


39 posted on 06/01/2008 12:03:21 PM PDT by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: fella

SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Don’t mess with me right now. I am very angry that I went 0 for 2 in todays softball game and misplayed a fly ball.

If I have to tear into you to make up for it, it’s your fault.


40 posted on 06/01/2008 12:16:20 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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