Jun 01 2008

Obama campaign bus gets a flat after church steeple pierces tire

Posted by Neocon in Democrats, Obama, Religion

Even with the light posting schedule that I’ve been keeping (and I hope to change that problem soon) I just had to comment on this latest Obamination. If you hadn’t heard about it yet, get ready because this should be eating up the news cycle for the next week- even if the Obama camp tried to downplay it with a lazy weekend release.

Barack Obama said Saturday he has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago “with some sadness” in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and more recent fiery remarks at the church by a visiting priest.

“This is not a decision I come to lightly … and it is one I make with some sadness,” Obama said at a news conference after campaign officials released a letter of resignation he sent to the church on Friday.

“I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church,” he said, adding that the new pastor at Trinity and “the church have been suffering from the attention my campaign has focused on them.”

Obama said he and his wife have been discussing the issue since Wright’s appearance at the National Press Club in Washington last month, which reignited the furor over remarks Wright had made in various sermons at the church.

So first we get chided for daring to criticize an upstanding religious leader such as Pastor Wright, who shines the good light of the lord on his congregation with such gems as “God Damn America” and accusations that the government created AIDS to kill black people. Then we’re told by Barack Obama himself that to denounce Wright for his outlandish B.S. is denounce the entire black community in what was one of the most over-hyped and poorly constructed speeches in recent memory.

We’re told that Wright’s long history of racist radical beliefs are no different than the purported unease that Obama’s white grandmother once allegedly felt at being approached by an urban youth on the streets alone. That poor granny is just as guilty misguided as the Rev, and that we should just deal with someone spreading hate because we’re just distracting from the real issues by bringing up their relationship.

Nevermind that Obama wrote in his own highly acclaimed memoir that he was so tuned into the Wright and his church throughout his life that he listened to tapes of the sermons college. Nevermind that Michelle Obama has been stepping dangerously close to Wright’s level of rhetoric over the last few months while on the campaign trail. Nevermind that Obama flat out lied about what he had or hadn’t heard at Trinity church for a few weeks and the media happily covered for him. Nevermind that he didn’t choose to reject the endorsement of Louis “Mothership Math” Farrakhan until he was called out about it by Hillary during a debate, albeit in a clumsy manner. Nevermind that Obama disinvited Wright from a campaign announcement BEFORE any of this broke in the MSM by telling him that “you can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”

After all of that, we’re supposed to believe that this issue is over now because Obama says it is? He said it was before. It ain’t, baby, it ain’t. If Wright’s words were the sort that could be swept under the rug, they would have been soundly rolled up in the man from Illinois’ closet again by now.

It’s a bad sign for your democrat campaign when you can’t even get your talking points straight with a friendly media source like the AP. First it says he left because of Wright’s comments, which we now know he has been aware of for quite some time. Then he’s leaving to protect the church from further scrutiny?

Please. This isn’t any closer to going away than it was after he delivered that mess of a religion speech a few months ago.

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