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To: ASA Vet
How can the National Baptist Convention USA Inc support the abortion candidate and still claim to be christians?

It is not a Baptist group. It is a DNC front group that pimps for Obama.

11 posted on 09/13/2008 2:43:36 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Always Right

“How can the National Baptist Convention USA Inc support the abortion candidate and still claim to be christians?

It is not a Baptist group. It is a DNC front group that pimps for Obama.”

Technically it is a Baptist group. And they aren’t just pimping Obama. This same bunch was all agog at Billy Clinton.


15 posted on 09/13/2008 2:49:23 PM PDT by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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To: Always Right

Right you are!

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080829/COL10/808290318

Obama calls on black churches to register voters

August 29, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama has been quietly working with ministers nationwide to mobilize a massive voter registration drive because he believes the black church and its members could determine whether he gains the White House in a tight presidential race, the Free Press has learned.
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In a move from the Bill Clinton playbook that allowed the former president to so connect with black voters that he was dubbed “the first black president,” Obama has reached out since last September in a series of conference calls to ministers and leaders nationwide to create a network to push the vote.

The most recent call came Sunday evening, four days before he was to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. During the 50-minute call, Obama spoke about how close the election will be in November.

“He said it’s really going to be an incredibly narrow margin, if you base it on the last two national elections,” said the Rev. Nicholas Hood III, pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ in Detroit, who participated in the call. “He believes that the black church and the black community may be the difference in putting him over.”

The ministers also heard from the Rev. William J. Shaw and the Rev. T. DeWitt Smith Jr. Shaw is president of the National Baptist Convention, the nation’s oldest and largest African-American convention with about 7.5 million members. ...


63 posted on 09/13/2008 4:01:41 PM PDT by maggief (Read my lip-stick!)
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