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Attacks on his church trouble Obama
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 3/15/08 | Mary Mitchell

Posted on 03/15/2008 12:29:04 PM PDT by pissant

When Sen. Barack Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ 20 years ago, little did he know that the church’s charismatic pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., would become a flashpoint in a Democratic presidential primary.

Wright, an activist pastor who brought the South Side church from a 85-member congregation to an 8,000-member mega-church, has been under constant attack on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” as a “cult” and “separatist” church.

In an interview, Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times that, despite the controversy swirling around Wright over racial comments he made from the pulpit about Sen. Hillary Clinton, he is not abandoning his church.

“We are still members of the church,” Obama said.

At the same time, Obama strongly condemned the racially explosive language attributed to Wright.

“The particular statements that have been pulled out of Rev. Wright’s sermons are ones that I profoundly disagree with,” Obama said, adding that he has never been at Trinity when Wright made similar remarks.

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“I have felt frustrated by how the church has been characterized and by the suggestion that this is somehow a separatist church and by other statements made on these talk shows,” he said.

“Anybody who has been to the church knows this is a terrific, welcoming church,” Obama noted. Trinity “is a wonderful faith community that has done very positive things in the community and also in my life.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; dncfalseprophets; falseprophets; jeremiahwright; larrysinclairslover; nobama; obama; religiousleft; ucc
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“Anybody who has been to the church knows this is a terrific, welcoming church,” Obama noted. Trinity “is a wonderful faith community that has done very positive things in the community and also in my life.”

Unless you are white.

1 posted on 03/15/2008 12:29:07 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Osama is every bit as vile as his “pastor”.


2 posted on 03/15/2008 12:31:24 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: pissant

If the majority of people in this country were black,then Obama would be preaching this crap right alongside the rev Wright.


3 posted on 03/15/2008 12:32:29 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: pissant

...whites need not apply.


4 posted on 03/15/2008 12:32:50 PM PDT by Bull Man
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To: pissant

If the majority of people in this country were black,then Obama would be preaching this crap right alongside the rev Wright.


5 posted on 03/15/2008 12:33:06 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: pissant

So who is next to take over the church and what has he/she stated in his “sermons”


6 posted on 03/15/2008 12:33:07 PM PDT by woofie
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To: johniegrad

just not as honest


7 posted on 03/15/2008 12:34:01 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Now we know where his wife gets her views of America from!!!


8 posted on 03/15/2008 12:34:04 PM PDT by Antique Gal (Build the Damn Fence !!!!)
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“The particular statements that have been pulled out of Rev. Wright’s sermons are ones that I profoundly disagree with,” Obama said, adding that he has never been at Trinity when Wright made similar remarks."

And it you believe that Hussain has a bridge in NYC to sell you. Cheap!

9 posted on 03/15/2008 12:34:58 PM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: Farmer Dean

Just remember, Jesus was a black man persecuted by the white Romans.


10 posted on 03/15/2008 12:35:29 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Is it integrated?


11 posted on 03/15/2008 12:35:34 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: pissant

So now Hussein and his Drive By toadies are playing the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy card, LOL!


12 posted on 03/15/2008 12:35:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Bull Man

Or blacks such as Colin, Clarence and “Condamnneesha”


13 posted on 03/15/2008 12:36:57 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Just remember, Jesus was a black man persecuted by the white Romans.

And the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

14 posted on 03/15/2008 12:37:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: pissant

The Sun-Times is a leftist rag sheet. The Tribune is hardly better.

Personally, it’s Obama’s long term attendance at a racist, hate-mongering “church” that troubles me.


15 posted on 03/15/2008 12:37:42 PM PDT by mike-zed
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To: woofie

The new pastor I’m suuuuure does not subscribe to Pastor Jeremiah’s beliefs.


16 posted on 03/15/2008 12:37:52 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Didn’t Jesus also warn us that the CIA was gonna put HIV in the crack cocaine?


17 posted on 03/15/2008 12:39:12 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: pissant
"20 years ago little did he know"

You don't have to see 20 years in the future to know what you are doing today is wrong.


18 posted on 03/15/2008 12:39:24 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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So now Hussein and his Drive By toadies are playing the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy card, LOL!

Yep, mean old FOX is pickin on Obama's church.

19 posted on 03/15/2008 12:39:45 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Wright, an activist pastor who brought the South Side church from a 85-member congregation to an 8,000-member mega-church,

I guess race baiting sells
20 posted on 03/15/2008 12:39:53 PM PDT by uncbob
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