The Obamagony and the Hillecstacy
But we’ll start with a little right reax. Me first: It’s only a matter of time before he’s forced to distance himself from himself.
Surber: “Too stupid to be president.”
Gateway: “It’s getting crowded under that bus.”
Rubin at Commentary: So much for that claim it was Wright and not the church.
Malkin: (Helpfully) A pantheon of Obamorons.
Stubborn Facts: Great move! … If he had thought of it years ago.
Ha! Cynics and Skeptics: “It’s 3 a.m. … do you really want a president who takes 20 years to make a decision?”
OK, now some Hillecstacy:
Dem Daily: (Ironic) Great timing! Bury it on a Saturday when the DNC/RBC pipe job is the big news. Also check Tremain R. in comments, channeling Seinfeld and God.
Taylor Marsh: (almost speechless) “Let’s just call it an inconvenient church.”
And the Obamagony:
Comments from Left Field: (Bitter, in need of a grip)
“Have you ever read a book or seen a movie where the villain puts a gun to someone’s head and says to him, “Now do exactly as I tell you and everything will be all right,” and the guy does exactly as he’s told and gets killed anyway?
“Yeah?
“… You know that resigning from Trinity is not going to be the end of this matter. I expect to see it inside of a week: ‘Obama admitted that many members of his former church are his personal friends.”
Balloon Juice: (Apparently serious) Great move, now he’s got that church thing out of the way. Ditching your 20-year church is way cooler than ditching an endorsement.
Pam’s House Blend: (All business) Bravo. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Enough pandering to the religion-clingers.
Liberal Values: (Unabashedly Obtuse) I look to TV for my understanding of real issues. This’ll show ‘em. Ditching his 20-year relationship with that church will really show how desperate and absurd those attacks on his 20-year relationship with that church were.
With thanks to Memeorandum on the roundup.
Where are my manners? Here’s the candidate himself on his decision to ditch his church of 20 years. He prayed, determined that there was a cultural and stylistic gap, and decided to spare the shut-ins a circus. Politico:
On the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) announced Saturday evening that he had resigned from his controversial Chicago congregation, Trinity United Church of Christ, “with some sadness.”
Obama told reporters he didn’t want his “church experience to be a political circus — I think most American people will understand that, and wouldn’t want to subject their church to that, either.” He said it has been “months” since he has attended Trinity.
At a news conference in Aberdeen, S.D., after the news emerged on the blog of a black journalist in Chicago, Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, had notified the church in a letter Friday that they “were withdrawing as members of Trinity,” in part because of “a cultural and a stylistic gap.”
Obama said he also regrets “all the attention that my campaign has visited on” the church.
“We had reporters grabbing church bulletins and calling up the sick and the shut-in,” he said. “That’s just not how people should have to operate in their church.
Obama said he began contemplating such a move after the “National Press Club episode” in which his former pastor and longtime spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., made comments that the senator later denounced as offensive.
“We had prayed on it. We had consulted with a number of friends and family members,” Obama said. “Frankly, it’s one that I made with some sadness. Trinity was where I found Jesus Christ, where we were married, where our children were baptized.”
This week, Obama had to distance himself from a guest preacher at Trinity, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who last Sunday made comments that seemed to accuse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) of acting “entitled” because she is white.
Obama said he has “tremendous regard” for the church community, but said he could not live with a situation where everything said in the church, including comments by a guest pastor, “will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held, views, statements and principles.”
Topics: pols, racism, religion
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:30 am on Sunday, June 1, 2008
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June 1st, 2008 at 10:25 am
“It’s getting crowded under that bus.”
HA! So true. I wonder who else The Messiah™ will sacrifice in His quest for the White House……Michelle, perhaps?
June 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
“Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the albatross
About my neck was hung.”
S. C. Taylor
June 1st, 2008 at 11:07 am
Sorry, that was from the “Rime of the Antique Sailor.”
June 1st, 2008 at 11:23 am
Good Lord. This campaign has been a treasure trove of comedy gold. I am truly going to miss it when it is over.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
Too Much Too Little Too Late….
It’s a few years too late for this to help him. He had to be pried shamed out of TUCC with the Jaws of Life weight of public opinion instead of doing it of his own volition, despite twenty years of opportunity, so he’ll continue to carry that albatro…
June 1st, 2008 at 11:57 am
Obama said he has “tremendous regard” for the church community, but said he could not live with a situation where everything said in the church, including comments by a guest pastor, “will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held, views, statements and principles.”
Which long-held views, statements, and principles are those? He sat in that church for 20 years, listening to anti-white, anti-American rhetoric, and never experienced a conflict with his views, statements, and principles until now, when the bigoted preachery is public knowledge? For that matter, how does a half-white man listen to that crap for 20 years unless he’s willing to sacrifice that part of himself for money, influence, and votes? Hope and change? Not hardly.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
“It’s only a matter of time before he’s forced to distance himself from himself. ” Pretty clever turn of phrase, until one realizes that that is an all too common thing amongst political animals.
Spin doctors make a living at it.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I repeat my oft repeated question, if America is so hopelessly racist, how could it possibly be to Obama’s benefit to run as a black? If the country were as portrayed by his church, you’d think he would want to obfusticate that part of his lineage somehow.
Turns out America is not as depicted by various TUCC demogogues. Black culture has been considered the epitomy of “cool” since the 60’s. Many of us have been pulling for black success the entire time, if for no other reason than the converse drags our country down. For that we are castigated by black millionaires as clinging to our bibles and our guns and fearing those who are not like us.
I personally think they should be thanking our ancestors for consulting their bibles and picking up their guns in 1863 and doing the right thing for their ancestors. Then they should shut up and go to work like everybody else, and enjoy the bounty of this great land.