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Obama’s Ex-Church Has Won $15M in Federal Grant Money
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Posted on 06/02/2008 6:25:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama’s Ex-Church Has Won $15M in Federal Grant Money by FOXNews.com Monday, June 2, 2008

By Jeff Goldblatt

Across America seven days a week, parents drop their kids at day care centers, which are supported by funding from the federal government.

But what makes one facility noteworthy in inner city Chicago is that it’s run by Trinity United Church of Christ. It’s the same church whose former head pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, drew widespread scrutiny after he cursed the U.S. government for its treatment of African-Americans.

FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.

Records show this money supported a variety of outreach: everything from low income housing to nutritional programs for needy kids to money for HIV/AIDS education. Wright blames the government for intentionally infecting the African-American community with that deadly virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: faithbased; federalspending; fundingtheleft; grants; jeremiahwright; obama; religiousleft; revwright; trinityucc; wright
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To: bluerose

I am very POed. Anyone that voted for it should be run off.


21 posted on 06/02/2008 7:47:59 PM PDT by Big Horn (I am bitter, I just want to eat my waffle.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thank you God for those GD whiteys and these here GD United States. But this ain’t enough! We want more since we been suffrin fo fo hunert years! And it’s all the GS whiteys fault.


22 posted on 06/02/2008 7:49:33 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Sub-Driver

$15 billion, just enough to buy Revernd Wright that mansion in Orland Park plus a couple of white Porsches manufactured by white people.


23 posted on 06/02/2008 7:56:52 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The liberal media has never told us exactly what being a “Community Organizer” entailed. For Barack Obama, it meant basically getting money from local, state and federal governments to subsidize his hate church and other left-wing organizations.

People have no idea how much the funding of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and other leftist groups comes from the taxpayer. With the help of Community Organizers like Barack H. Obama, of course.

Amazing how long it has taken for this information to come out.


24 posted on 06/02/2008 7:58:05 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: tflabo

From Hotair:

“Update (Ed): After AP posted this, I tooled around through the FedSpending.org database to see how these grants got allocated. The database covers all grants and contracts for fiscal years 2000-2007 and is a great resource. According to the search, TUCC received its last grant in FY2001, for $150,000 under a program to “Improve the Health Status of Minority Populations”.

After 2001, the grants apparently stopped, which might also explain some of the hostility Wright felt for the federal government.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/fox-news-wright-trinity-received-15m-in-taxpayer-money-from-gddamn-america/

So...now the truth is known, but this liberal commie writer just had to bring up ‘Faith based Initiatives’ from the Bush Administration (which was not even passed when the church got it’s last grant)

Color me pissed off at another MSM biased article.


25 posted on 06/02/2008 8:08:12 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: F15Eagle

The Video That Barack Obama DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sawN7uJ8s8s&feature=related


26 posted on 06/02/2008 8:47:04 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Sub-Driver; dead

Reverend Jeremiah Lesko says: "God Damn America! And get your FREE MONEY!"

27 posted on 06/03/2008 12:55:33 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: Sub-Driver
Now you know where the $10 million came from for Jeremiah's new crib.

And the chorus sings...

"Gimme, gimme, you rotten whiteys! Down with the USA!"

28 posted on 06/03/2008 5:06:28 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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To: Sub-Driver

How does a church get Federal grant money? (more like WHY) What happened to separation of church and state, huh?


29 posted on 06/03/2008 5:07:01 AM PDT by madison10 (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: All

Why do I feel like typical white person,taxpaying sucker?!

Giving the good “Reverend Wright” our money is beyond obscene.


30 posted on 06/03/2008 5:15:46 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: HonestConservative; eeevil conservative; AliVeritas

Seen this?


31 posted on 06/03/2008 9:48:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: HonestConservative; eeevil conservative; AliVeritas

Seen this?


32 posted on 06/03/2008 9:49:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Sub-Driver; editor-surveyor; metmom; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; SJackson; dennisw; Tailgunner Joe; ...

“Rev.” Wright and the UCC are laughing all the way to the bank:

“Since 2003, the administration has increased grants to faith-based organizations by 20 percent. That’s a positive development; that’s the kind of news that I like to hear, particularly when those faith-based programs are changing America one soul at a time.”—George W. Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050301-4.html


33 posted on 06/03/2008 9:58:52 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Beckwith

I’m sure you’ve seen this already, but just in case...


34 posted on 06/03/2008 10:00:43 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: madison10

The “Faith Based Initiatives” that Liberals complained about.


35 posted on 06/03/2008 10:55:45 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: GodGunsGuts

As usual, Jorge is looking out for us!


36 posted on 06/03/2008 11:04:45 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Sub-Driver

The downside of faith based iniatives. At least the little ones are getting an “appropriate” education. President Obama would approve, and expand the program.


37 posted on 06/03/2008 11:08:29 AM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: Sub-Driver

IRS needs to do a thorough investigation of this church. Preaching politics (of racial hatred) from the pulpit, lining the pockets of the pastor with money from the public trough, etc., is NOT the way my church works. It shouldn’t be the way ANY church works. Their “church” IRS status should be yanked.


38 posted on 06/03/2008 11:17:20 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


39 posted on 06/03/2008 11:45:04 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess that whole Church and State thing doesn’t count if its a black church.

Then again, they don’t preach any recognizable gospel there, so maybe there’s no conflict.


40 posted on 06/03/2008 2:56:07 PM PDT by PsyOp (Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
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