Blood In The Water
Obama quits his wacky, bigoted, anti-American church. Swamp:
Sen. Barack Obama is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ, his longtime religious home in Chicago and a place that has triggered repeated controversies during his presidential bid.
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt confirmed Obama is essentially resigning from the church. No other details were immediately available, although Obama is expected to speak on the topic later this evening.
The latest controversy involving the South Side church erupted this past week when an Internet video emerged from an appearance there last weekend by the Rev. Michael Pfleger.
Pfleger, who has had numerous run-ins with Chicago’s Roman Catholic archdiocese for his political activism, mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton from the pulpit during a guest appearance at the church. The priest also suggested the former first lady is a white elitist who felt entitled to the Democratic nomination.
Obama has not attended the church since it first entered the national spotlight in mid-March, following the appearance of Internet videos featuring Obama’s longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Dwight Hopkins, a theology professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, who joined Trinity 12 years ago, expressed shock and regret about the senator’s decision.
“I thought he would stay because of the good works of the church,” Hopkins said, noting Obama’s frequent affirmations about the Trinity community. “He had a baptism and marriage connection. I guess the Pfleger thing took it over the top. Maybe Sen. Obama thought the church should not have provided that platform.”
First grandma, then his preacher, how the whole darn church. All under the bus. With abandon!
Pun intended. He plans to abandon 26 million Iraqis to genocide, and kick off a new age of Irano-terrorism. Might as well start by ditching the people he’s shared pews with for the past 20 years. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes over with the electorate. Maybe it’s a good cut-and-run through.
If I were Michelle, I’d be worried. But if I were Hillary, I wouldn’t be in any rush to cut any delegate deals. If I were the Dems, I wouldn’t be in any rush to do Obama any delegate favors. Never mind, too late:
In a setback for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s rules committee has decided to let delegates from Florida and Michigan participate in the party’s presidential nominating convention with half a vote each.
After a long day of wrangling in Washington, D.C., the committee voted unanimously on Saturday for the half-vote compromise. It also allocated 59 Michigan delegates to front-runner Barck Obama, whose name was not on the Michigan Democratic primary ballot.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:54 pm on Saturday, May 31, 2008
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May 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
You would think Obama would hold unconditional talks with Fr. Mike and Rev. Jerry.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
“…a place that has triggered repeated controversies during his presidential bid.”
From the earlier videos of crazy preachers spewing hate, You’d think it would have been controversial all along. But, hey, let’s be fair, huh?
/MSM idiots.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Damn, I always heard the Reich Wing had the nutball churches. From the sounds of things, they don’t hold a candle to the whack jobs on the caring and sharing side of the aisle.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Maybe he missed Rev. Wright after all.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:34 am
Half votes? That’s ridiculous, and worse than giving them no votes at all. If they’re going to count them, then they should count for a full vote.
Anyway…
(Parody of Weird Al Yankovich’s parody of Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust)
Standing in the crowd on the campaign trail
And the place was pretty packed (yes we can!)
Couldn’t find a seat so I had to stand
With the fainters in the back
It was smelling like a revival tent
There were pamphlets all over the floor
They’re already crowded there under the bus
But we’re stopping to throw under more, look out!
(chorus)
Another one under the bus
Another one under the bus
Another goes down and another goes down
Another one under the bus
Hey, he’s gonna renounce you
Another one under the bus
There’s a blackberry poking me in the ribs
There’s an elbow in my ear
There’s a smelly Code Pinker standing next to me
Hasn’t showered in a year
I think we’re missing a Reverend
I think the Grandma’s gone
And I think the candidate is stopping again
He’s got somebody new to disown, look out!
(chorus)
(weird sound effects)
Another one under the bus
Another one under the bus
Another one under the bus ow
Another one under the bus hey hey
Another one under the bus hey-ey-ey-ey
The Messiah is speaking and reporters swoon
And the country is turning blue (yeah!)
I haven’t been in a crowd like this
Since I went to see The View
Well it should’ve been over long ago
We want to hear the rhetoric soar
There’s hardly any room left under the bus
And now he’s gonna throw in more
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June 1st, 2008 at 2:51 am
“Damn, I always heard the Reich Wing had the nutball churches. From the sounds of things, they don’t hold a candle to the whack jobs on the caring and sharing side of the aisle.”
Maybe there is a defect in your pigeon-hole assignment algorithm.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
T’was being facetious about the double standard in our land Larry. When Mr. Bush mentions God, it is portrayed by the permanently outraged as a sign of the coming theocracy. When any Democrat campaigns in a church, it is an occasion to reflect with misty eyes on the divine imperative of the redistribution of wealth.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I blame the MSM almost exculsively for this entire sick train wreck of Obama and the ugly associations of his past, and I believe the Dems (especially Hillary supporters) should too.
It is the job of a non-partisan MSM to vet all candidates early on, to reveal their shortcomings and to hold them responsible for their past behavior, positions and associations.
Six weeks after Obama won Iowa, we should have known all about Wright, his creepy sermons and Black Liberation Theology, the enthusiastic TUCC congregations, Ayers, Rezco and the rest of Obama’s sordid background. (I don’t completely absolve those who bought the MSMs story hook, line and sinker, but that’s a case for another time.)
But the MSM was not non-partisan. In Obama, they saw what they wanted to see, rather than what was really there: they saw (and may still see) the Emperor’s New Cloths. Their partisan enthusiasm reinforced the beliefs of those of their readership who wanted to see in Obama the second coming, when objective MSM reporting should have challenged what many of their readers wanted to see.
For whatever reason, the MSM failed to do its job, and that — plus the new media of blogs, YouTube and talk radio — has brought the Democratic chances for capturing the presidency to the brink.
Or so I would argue.