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Obama Skips Church, Heads To Gym
politico.com ^ | November 23, 2008 | JONATHAN MARTIN & CAROL E. LEE

Posted on 11/23/2008 2:46:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend church services since winning the White House earlier this month, a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors.

On the three Sundays since his election, Obama has instead used his free time to get in workouts at a Chicago gym.

Asked about the president-elect's decision to not attend church, a transition aide noted that the Obamas valued their faith experience in Chicago but were concerned about the impact their large retinue may have on other parishioners.

"Because they have a great deal of respect for places of worship, they do not want to draw unwelcome or inappropriate attention to a church not used to the attention their attendance would draw," said the aide.

Both President-elect George W. Bush and President-elect Bill Clinton managed to attend church in the weeks after they were elected.

In November of 1992, Clinton went to services in Little Rock, Ark., on the three weekends following his election, taking pre-church jogs on the first two and attending on the third weekend a Catholic Mass with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, with whom he was trying to smooth over lingering campaign tensions.

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To: Free ThinkerNY; narses

Not surprising.

Clinton, Carter, Reagan, Bush, etc......all were at least held in good standing in their respective home churches, even if I vehemently disagreed with their theology. None of them ever denied their faith or church, none of them.

Barack Obama is the first Presidential winner I can recall who actually denied his church and the tenets of his Faith. When threatened with being tossed into the lion’s den during the campaign this year, Barack Obama essentially said, “Jesus who?” (at least when one considers how he “found jesus” this is certainly true).

Truly, a first in my lifetime. Truly.


41 posted on 11/23/2008 3:13:57 PM PST by TitansAFC (Sarah Palin/Mitt Romney 2012!!! Elway, Schwarzenegger, Ditka, Huckabee, and Hoeven for Senate 2010!)
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To: Salamander

Why do you think I haven’t talked to you lately? ;-)


42 posted on 11/23/2008 3:15:00 PM PST by BykrBayb (May God have mercy on our souls. ~)
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To: BykrBayb

Oooooch!

*Burn!*

;-D


43 posted on 11/23/2008 3:16:32 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not suprising for someone who is called the Messiah. What could church possibly have to teach Him?


44 posted on 11/23/2008 3:18:26 PM PST by samson1097
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To: Yorlik803

45 posted on 11/23/2008 3:19:03 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Just spent a little while on the United Church of Christ's website.I had,for some time,been under the impression that that "church" was one of many Protestant denominations that had gone atheist...at least in the US.And after spending a while on their website it looks as if I was correct.Their list of "ministries" and "concerns" looks like it was lifted straight off of the DUmmieLand or Daily Chaos websites.

And remember,the Anything-But-Revered Wright is a UCC "clergyman".

46 posted on 11/23/2008 3:22:55 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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To: Clemenza
".. he uses the church when he needs it, and ignores it when it is no longer useful."

But Lincoln, Jefferson, and Reagan didn't do this. To me, that's the point.

47 posted on 11/23/2008 3:25:26 PM PST by Irene Adler (')
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To: brytlea

Did he even go to bury his Grandmother?


48 posted on 11/23/2008 3:25:47 PM PST by omega4179 (Pardon Ramos and Compean, Mr Bush.)
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To: Salamander
I heard he is going to appoint Anton LeVay for Chaplin of the senate.
49 posted on 11/23/2008 3:26:14 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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To: Clemenza; All

Ditto..


50 posted on 11/23/2008 3:27:33 PM PST by KevinDavis (Thomas Jefferson: A little rebellion now and then is a good thing)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Atheists do not go to church, silly!


51 posted on 11/23/2008 3:27:59 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Yorlik803

He’s now raising the dead, too?

Wow!


52 posted on 11/23/2008 3:28:27 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ah! Very good.


53 posted on 11/23/2008 3:28:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: omega4179

I think so, but I’m not sure.


54 posted on 11/23/2008 3:29:09 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Clemenza

Mr. President-elect, you can always ask a pastor to come to your place and you and your retinue can hear the Word of God. The church is not a place. The church is composed of people, the Body of Christ. If you are of the Body of Christ, then you should be worshiping.

Why don’t you see if a pastor would come to you and not tell the press, if that’s your concern.


55 posted on 11/23/2008 3:30:03 PM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yep, time to dump the charade sez the O-child. Too late, suckers!


56 posted on 11/23/2008 3:30:03 PM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Speaking for myself, I don’t hugely care about this. Attendance of houses of worship are personal, not political. My concern is what he does when he’s in the Oval Office.

I'm Christian, but I'm more than okay with Lieberman being Jewish and with Romney being Mormon. I'm not okay with someone who claims to be religious during the campaign and then slides his "beliefs" back into a folder marked "Do Not Open Until 2012 Campaign". Faking faith reflects on integrity, or in the Affirmative Action President's case further supports the overwhelming conclusion that Obama is a complete and total fraud.

57 posted on 11/23/2008 3:30:54 PM PST by MathDoc (War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Obama is Good.)
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To: Salamander

Lol

But honestly, it’s always good to see you. I hope you’re well.


58 posted on 11/23/2008 3:31:33 PM PST by BykrBayb (May God have mercy on our souls. ~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

For such a twerp this guy sure works out a lot.


59 posted on 11/23/2008 3:35:04 PM PST by mowowie
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To: Doe Eyes
"Where in the Bible does it say you need to go to church?"

Hebrews 10:25

"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is,but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day approaching"

60 posted on 11/23/2008 3:35:34 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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