Obama ADMITS He Kept Attending The Church After Being AWARE Of Wright's Comments

[Danzo]

"When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html

[scheming daemons]

1. Correct... he said he wasn't aware of the SPECIFIC "God Damn America" and "Hillary never been ...

...called a n*****" comments.

He said... SPECIFICALLY... in his interviews on both Countdown and H&C that he was not aware of the SPECIFIC comments that were being replayed on the networks Thursday and Friday nights.




Keep digging...

[Rene]

32. Hey folks...it's not just the preacher. That entire congregation, clapping and cheerin is sick.

That entire display in the video is awful...they were all cheering and dancing about during that awful rhetoric. What a disastrous environment to have participated in for t w e n t y years. You'll never convince me that was a one ane only occurrence that Obama and Michelle happened to miss.
I don't 'fear' those actions....I find them disgusting.

[Political Heretic]

54. Yeah.... its sick when a bunch of people are CORRECT

I hate that.

America is ruled by rich white men. Check.

Hillary will never know what its like to face black oppression. Check.

America shouldn't be praised for its brutal, criminal violent historical legacy and its CONTEMPORARY mass murdering violence around the world. Check.

:shrug:

[CakeGrrl]

2. ...and he explains why he stayed in the same sentence you quoted. So what? Old news.

Why are quotes always cherry-picked?

[Danzo]

47. If I Wanted To Cherry Pick The Quote...

...I would have just put ellipses where he explained WHY he stayed with the Church. But as you can clearly see, I DID NOT.

[DearAbby]

3. So?

[JoFerret]

4. He should have remained true to his roots

and stayed an atheist

[stop the bleeding]

5. I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. And I will be staying there myself next Saturday night.

I'll tell you how it went! (Holiday Inn - I mean)

[LordJFT]

26. haha that's about as relevant to this topic as obama's preacher is to his running for president

[jody]

6. BO preaches "hope change" and he keeps changing his story hoping someone will believe him. n/t

[chimpymustgo]

16. Now THAT is funny.

[jackson_dem]

21. Haha!

:spray: :thumbsup: ZGood one!

[DJ13]

7. If you Clinton supporters spent half as much time investigating ........

........Hillary's church in DC, you wouldnt still be Clinton supporters.

[okasha]

19. Foundry Methodist?

What, pray, is scandalous about Foundry? Their plan to honor LGBT relationship in religious ceremonies?

Is your name McClurkin?

[XemaSab]

44. The Fellowship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%28Christian_political_organization%29

[Danzo]

49. Find A More Credible Source

Wikipedia can be edited by ANYONE. I find it's good policy to use them as little as possible.

[XemaSab]

52. Here are a few:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200611/green-hillary

[Kaylee]

8. And.............

[Danzo]

37. What's My Point?

I've seen a MYRIAD of Obama supporters say "(Obama wasn't in attendance when Wright made the controversial comments)." But I don't think that even MATTERS, since either way Obama admitted that he was AWARE of the comments.

[RememberWellstone]

10. is?.....is?

What is the definition of actually "being there" did Michelle cover his ears while the racist, hating Pastor spoke?

[KoKo]

11. He doesn't say where the Reverend Wright married my Wife and I and Baptised my Children...

Obama seems to not want to admit this....

Quote:

But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church."

[cooolandrew]

12. Many folk attend churches where the preacher says homophobe stuff but is gay and still attend even..

though they disagree, but wish to practice their faith.

[theredpen]

13. Wow. Someone spends 20 years and a chuch and the stay in despite comments from a retiring pastor

Golly. That's CRAZY!

[MadMaddie]

14. So what...who the hell cares?

Where was the fake outrage when all of the Republican religious hatemongers were spewing their filth?

We heard perhaps a wimper..

Many of you don't see what you are doing..

This is what I see as a black American..

First he was Muslim - The bar = not Christian

Now he has an outspoken Christian preacher = The Bar = Not the right kind of Christian..

What will the next bar be...will it be that his grammer is not quite right?

What about his tailored clothes are not quite right?

Come on we can all play this game...but many of us realize it for what it is - distraction and subtle racism.

you are feeding into this crap and giving McCain a free ride...pat yourselves on the back for helping the Republicans. It's apparant you can't see the big picture because you are mired in the shit...What are you really afraid of?

Many of you may not be comfortable the way the black preachers are fiery and passionate but why should that be Obama's problem? It's your problem. It's America's problem for not dealing with race issues in this country.


By the way I voted for Hillary in the WA caucus I am choosing no side. I am just pointing out the obvious.

[boppers]

41. You mis-spelled:

grammar

:P

Sadly enough, this is the game, and these are the foes we fight. An ig'nant fratboy hick is in the whitehouse, and for a black man to get to the same place, he has to be perfect, or damn near it.

The funny thing is, well, it looks like we found this guy.... :)

[Double T]

15. obama keeps changing his story regarding wright. BO can't even answer.........

a reporters question WITHOUT turning it over to his speech writers for presentation on the following day. BO should step down from his Presidential campaign and resign his Senate seat, what a hypocrite and a fraud.

[Submariner]

18. Then we'd be stuck with a triangulating neocon DINO warmonger with an

empty 35 year life of nothing but dangling from her hubby's coat tails.

[Double T]

20. Guess YOU don't read MUCH. And I wish the hell YOU would STOP.......

talking about Laura Bush in such a derogatory way, she is NOT as bad as her husband.

[Abacus]

24. You mean like when he went out on every network and answered every question

they could throw at him? :eyes:

[Double T]

28. No, like when a reporter asked him about wright and BO replied...........

with HE was going to give a speech to explain HIMSELF. Pathetic.

[DrFunkenstein]

17. That Racist Oprah Stayed Too!!!

Yawn.

[jackson_dem]

23. No, she left the church because of Wright...

[uponit7771]

25. Link? Liar! Thx

[jackson_dem]

27. Google. It was reported in several Wright stories

Of course Obamites have an uncanny ability to "miss" or "forget" anything they don't want to believe, like the fact rethugs voted for Obama in Texas, not Clinton, and in Ohio they split rethugs 49-49 while Obama got spanked among Democrats.

[XemaSab]

45. So the fact that she lives in Montecito, California

doesn't have anything to do with it? :shrug:

[OhioBlue]

22. and?

[jasmine621]

29. Wright is like Farrakhan...tells truth that the powerful hate to hear.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Danzo]

40. Interesting...

...so it's ACCURATE to TRIVIALIZE the Natalie Halloway (or whatever her name is) tragedy as "(a white girl who gave it up in the Carribean)"? Sounds like he's pointlessly degrading the victim there.

(Yes, I realize that he's correct about missing women who are black not getting enough attention. He could have made that point without implying that Natalie Halloway was a SLUT, though. That was uncalled for).

[CreekDog]

30. he said this months ago

you are a fair-minded reporter aren't ya?

[mckeown1128]

31. SO WHAT?????? n/t

[pointsoflight]

33. Ugh, yeah, and the church had a new pastor.

Forgot to mention that part, didn't you?

[pointsoflight]

34. Are you listening to yourselves?!?

Seriously. Take a step back. Are you seriously saying that you believe a solid democratic candidate who has the support of millions of voters should be taken down by some things that his pastor said in his sermons over the course of his 30 year career? Really, are you seriously saying that?!?

[BeyondGeography]

35. So fucking what?

[DefenseLawyer]

36. Good for him.

I am not a church goer myself, but I certainly don't fear the scary, angry black man the way you obviously do. Would you really rather have a leader who discarded one of his closest friends because he made closet bigots uncomfortable?

[better tomorrow]

38. maybe this is why.......CAUTION it might hit you squarely in the face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9oXrK0LazE

[EFerrari]

39. BREAKING: OBAMA ADMITS HE IS AN ADULT!!!!!1

[Danzo]

46. Are You Implying That...

...there WEREN'T Obama supporters who tried to EXCUSE Obama by claiming that he wasn't there for Wright's controversial comments? Because if you ARE, I'd be happy to dig up some posts to the contrary.

[EFerrari]

50. You have managed to miss the most transcendent moment

of, at very least, this decade. That's such a shame.

And as far as your strawman goes, I don't know if you have a reading problem, but this issue has been fully aired out here.

[Swamp Rat]

42. I normally don't go to Christian churches, but I wish I lived close enough to attend Obama's church.

I think Rev. Wright is cool! :smoke:

[XemaSab]

43. The beauty of this

Is that the right wingers are going to be all "He sat in that church EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY for 20 years and never heard anything offensive?"

But the more likely it is that he heard something offensive, the more time he spent sitting in church.

They can't have it both ways; either he's an America hater who goes to church every single blessed week, or he's not an America hater but has sloppy church attendance.

I mean come on, for Joe Baptist down in Pig Holler, Alabama, how is Swiftboating someone by outlining their regular church attendance supposed to work exactly?

Especially when McCain is the most secular fool the Republicans have put up in years. :P

[Danzo]

48. Excuse Me?

I'm an agnostic Democrat, not a religious right winger.

[XemaSab]

51. I think most agnostic democrats are smart enough to think for themselves

;)

I think it's Mr and Mrs Middle America who are going to be pushed one way or another by this.

[StevieM]

53. But of course, the MSM won't report this. The rules only apply if you're Hillary (eom)

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