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Wolffe: President Missed Rev. Wright’s Racist Rants Because 'He Wasn’t Much of a Churchgoer'
NewsBusters ^ | June 16, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/16/2009 12:15:01 PM PDT by Rufus2007

If you've ever wondered why the mainstream media didn't show much curiosity about how 20 years of attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church shaped President Barack Obama, there is a perfectly logical explanation. Obama wasn't really there.

According to Richard Wolffe, an MSNBC contributor and former Newsweek columnist that covered the Obama presidential campaign for the weekly magazine, people don't have to worry about the rantings and ravings of Obama's controversial preacher having any impact on his world view because he wasn't there.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2pathetic4words; jeremiahwright; mediabias; msnbc; richardwolffe; spiritualmentor
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This is a new one - Obama's not really a churchgoer...
1 posted on 06/16/2009 12:15:03 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Maybe he was down at Farrakhan’s mosque...


2 posted on 06/16/2009 12:17:11 PM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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didn’t he dedicate a book to the guy? didn’t the guy marry him and his wife? Baptize his kids?


3 posted on 06/16/2009 12:18:20 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Rufus2007

Well, I’m relieved. Phew!


4 posted on 06/16/2009 12:18:34 PM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Rufus2007

The Head Loon is not much of anything.


5 posted on 06/16/2009 12:18:39 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Rufus2007

Are these people out of their minds??


6 posted on 06/16/2009 12:19:32 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Rufus2007
F*cking butt sucking enablers....
7 posted on 06/16/2009 12:19:33 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Rufus2007

The previously Muslim BHO clearly joined Trinity United Church for political purposes as it was the biggest politically connected “church” in South Chicago when he moved into the city to begin his career as a community agitator and political organizer. It was all done for a purpose.


8 posted on 06/16/2009 12:19:42 PM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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Barry regularly attends the First Church of the Perpetual Narcissist: A Gym with Mirrors. His wife goes, too. That's where she got the great guns and large turret.
9 posted on 06/16/2009 12:20:13 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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"I'm shocked, shocked I say ..."

Should we ask what religious services he attends ... perhaps on Fridays?

10 posted on 06/16/2009 12:20:29 PM PDT by TurtleUp (So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
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During the campaign, the One website portrayed him as a regular at Trinity. Even specified which service he attended (11 o’clock).


11 posted on 06/16/2009 12:21:43 PM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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White guilt really has gotten out of control.


12 posted on 06/16/2009 12:22:20 PM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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I don’t know, (shakes head) just when you think it can’t get any weirder...lol.


13 posted on 06/16/2009 12:22:59 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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Mre like "The Church of St. Mattress", or, alternatively, he took the kids to Sunday School and then sacked out in the parking lot.

You can see that just about anywhere with any Megachurch.

Nobody notices those guys but they're there.

Try that in a small congregation and people will question your sanity and/or propriety.

Still, Obama picked up enough street cred that he adopted the "Don't Say Nothin' Bad About The Brothers" doctrine and he's using it now with the Dictator in Iran. He wants us to belive that will keep the dictator from getting more vicious.

14 posted on 06/16/2009 12:23:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Question? Have the Obama’s been attending church on a regular bases since moving to DC? If they had I would think we would have heard about it.
15 posted on 06/16/2009 12:24:04 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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You said it. Barry’s religion is “Baraq Obama”.

He’s not a Muslim, as some claim, and not a Christian, as he claims.

He’s definitely not one of Jesus’ sheep. He doesn’t even acknowledge that He is the Son of God who came in the flesh. (1 John 4)


16 posted on 06/16/2009 12:24:25 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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“Despite Campaign Claim, Obama Told Paper He Attended Trinity Church ˜Every Week"

President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 “ while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat “ that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week.

This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright's comments.

The comments from Obama about his church attendance appeared in the transcript of an interview posted Tuesday on the religious news Web site Beliefnet.com. The interview was conducted on March 27, 2004 by Chicago Sun-Times religion writer Cathleen Falsani for a story on Obama's faith, but the interview was not released in its entirety until now.

One of the churches that I became involved in was Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama said in the interview. “And the pastor there, Jeremiah Wright, became a good friend. So I joined that church and committed myself to Christ in that church.

Obama began attending the church in 1988 and formally joined Trinity in 1992. Falsani asked, "Do you still attend Trinity?"

Obama answered, "Yep. Every week. 11 clock service. Ever been there? Good service. I actually wrote a book called ˜Dreams from My Father," it's kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity."

That is in direct contradiction to what he has said throughout this campaign year.

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=13649

17 posted on 06/16/2009 12:25:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: Uncle Hal

They’ve been a total of THREE times since they moved to DC.


18 posted on 06/16/2009 12:25:26 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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Wright would look out over the congregation. Only if he didn't see Obama, would he launch into one of his racist rants.
19 posted on 06/16/2009 12:26:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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why the mainstream media didn't show much curiosity about how 20 years of attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church shaped President Barack Obama,

Oh, please! Since when is the MSM curios about truth?
20 posted on 06/16/2009 12:26:28 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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