Obama has left Trinity United Church

[Jon]

Took him long enough. 20 years of listening to hatespeak, now he leaves because it's best for his campaign. How hypocritical.

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[Care4all]

Took him long enough. 20 years of listening to hatespeak, now he leaves because it's best for his campaign. How hypocritical.

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Hmmmm, I wonder why?

 

[Care4all]

no need to worry about upsetting the black vote anymore, perhaps? And now time to start pandering to the white blue collar and female maybe? since he is going in to the general?

 

[cbi0090]

Took him long enough. 20 years of listening to hatespeak, now he leaves because it's best for his campaign. How hypocritical.

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It is hypocritical and, in a way, disappointing. I have no problem disagreeing or supporting wholeheartedly someone with a strong, unpopular opinion if I agree but what do you do with someone who just dances about to the loudest music of the day. You can't agree, you can't disagree. We're supposed to just sit back and be entertained? Is that who we vote for? I'm fed up with the whole lot.

 

[Ravi]

Took him long enough. 20 years of listening to hatespeak, now he leaves because it's best for his campaign. How hypocritical.

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huh

 

[jreeves]

Took him long enough. 20 years of listening to hatespeak, now he leaves because it's best for his campaign. How hypocritical.

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That has been my experience at Trinity. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | His Own Words

Great leader???

 

[RetiredGySgt]

His apolgists will be along any minute to explain what he REALLY meant.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Some Obama supporters, including U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, said that disconnecting from the church signaled a chance for the campaign to move on.

"I think it bodes well for us in the general election that we can put whatever issues there were behind us in respect to the church," Wexler said.

Obama quits church, citing controversies - CNN.com

Politics pure and simply, promise to do one thing and then when expediant do another, or exact opposite.

Now we can remind him he "supported" the church until it was convenient not to.

 

[jreeves]

{quote}

Some Obama supporters, including U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, said that disconnecting from the church signaled a chance for the campaign to move on.

"I think it bodes well for us in the general election that we can put whatever issues there were behind us in respect to the church," Wexler said.

Obama quits church, citing controversies - CNN.com

Politics pure and simply, promise to do one thing and then when expediant do another, or exact opposite.

Now we can remind him he "supported" the church until it was convenient not to.[/QUOTE]

Question is, will Obama pick a new church? If so, which church will it be?

 

[Yurt]

i'm sure if david duke renounced (oh wait, obama did not renounce the church, just left it) and left the KKK, you obama lovers would all have been happy with him

 

[TheGoodShepherd]

It only helps the Obama campaign.

 

[jreeves]

It only helps the Obama campaign.

I don't believe so....how does this help him?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I don't believe so....how does this help him?

They think it lets them now claim since he is not a member, even though he was for 20 years and DEFENDED the church just weeks ago, now he is safe.

 

[Yurt]

why are the obama supporters so silent???

 

[Foxfyre]

Why are the Obama supporters to silent? I suspect they are combing through their posts trying to remember whether they passionately defended Jeremiah Wright and Trinity Church and Obama's association with these. They don't want us dredging those up if they now defend Obama's quite transparent attempt in damage control.

Politics can be such fun sometimes.

 

[Shogun]

every one of you motherfuckers are free to vote for someone else. Enjoy your 08 election while you develop a burning need for a case of mylanta.

 

[jreeves]

every one of you motherfuckers are free to vote for someone else. Enjoy your 08 election while you develop a burning need for a case of mylanta.

Lmao....so now anyone who questions Obama based on his record or statements are motherfucking racists? That's alot of class let me tell you....again...OBAMA

 

[Shogun]

did I call you a racist? No, Im calling you a petty motherfucker who has the freedom to take your vote the same direction as joe lieberman. Dont let the proverbial door bumb your ass on your way out.

 

[Toro]

President Obama.

 

[Jon]

a petty motherfucker

We're petty because we see straight through Obama, and because we see him for exactly what he has been trying to hide from America for the past year?

You seem pretty angry. Regretting your decision to defend the piece of shit yet?