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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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To: pissant
The Chicago Sun-Times, just totin’ the water.
41 posted on 03/15/2008 12:51:09 PM PDT by CarryingOn (Spread the message every day, like your life depended on it.)
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To: pissant

That clip of Wright saying “God damn America” alone will lose the election for Obama.


42 posted on 03/15/2008 12:52:36 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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8 thousand members? Wow. I didn’t realize it was THAT big.


43 posted on 03/15/2008 12:52:57 PM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: pissant

Seriously, are there ANY white people in this church?

I’m inclined to say “no”.


44 posted on 03/15/2008 12:53:02 PM PDT by FReepapalooza (Joshua 3:4 ..."for ye have not passed this way heretofore.")
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To: pissant

Yeah, but he wasn’t troubled by the church’s attacks on America.


45 posted on 03/15/2008 12:53:26 PM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: pissant
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46 posted on 03/15/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Vote for McCain but trust in the Lord)
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To: pissant
The media was supposed to keep this under wraps until after the November election. It would have worked except for the Republican attack machine, A.K.A. Fox News. I can see why Obama would be upset.

Whites are supposed to know their role by now--go into paroxyms of guilt over the history of how white Americans have treated "people of color." The last thing they should do is to demand Barack explain what he really believes or really intends to do if he becomes President.

47 posted on 03/15/2008 12:55:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: denydenydeny
That clip of Wright saying “God damn America” alone will lose the election for Obama.


'Nuff said!

48 posted on 03/15/2008 12:55:27 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Lockup child molesters RFN!)
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To: aculeus
That is exactly what disturbed me-—the high fives, the dancing in the aisles, the clapping every time the “pastor” made these racist statements....what an eyeopener!
49 posted on 03/15/2008 12:55:39 PM PDT by Red RN
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To: joebuck
Obama said, adding that he has never been at Trinity when Wright made similar remarks."

Listen, even if he had not been at the church when these, or other hateful remarks, had been issued from the "pulpit"; Obama is a close friend to this man. He has to have had this man over for dinner or other such gatherings. Do you think that this man has never made similar remarks during his day-to-day conversations with people.

I simply don't believe that Obama has never heard this man say things like this, while in the pulpit or out of it.

50 posted on 03/15/2008 12:55:43 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: pissant
little did he know that the church’s charismatic pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., would become a flashpoint in a Democratic presidential primary.

LOL! "Charismatic". You gotta love it.

I suppose Hitler would be called "giddy" on occasion.

51 posted on 03/15/2008 12:55:55 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
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To: Hardastarboard

I’ve been warning people that Obama has been using the same speech patterns and cadence as a southern tent preacher, ever since I heard him speak at the Democrat convention and saw the Black audience respond to the buzz words with their bodies swaying to his cadence and their arms in the air.

Then another poster told me that these were typical crowd mind control tactics that are taught by communists and Marxists. I looked it up, the poster was right, straight out of the Marxist handbook.

Hannity had the new preacher from Trinity UCC on last night and he spoke the same way, with same cadence and inflections that Obama and Wright use.


52 posted on 03/15/2008 12:56:30 PM PDT by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Nice! ....and so unfortunately true!


53 posted on 03/15/2008 12:56:37 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Lockup child molesters RFN!)
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To: pissant
Just remember, Jesus was a black man persecuted by the white Romans.

Well, it would be hard for such a "reverend" to actually say that Jesus was a Jew; since he seems to be anti-semitic as well as anti-white.

54 posted on 03/15/2008 12:57:10 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: pissant
Previous discussions on 'black racism' in freerepublic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514713/posts

55 posted on 03/15/2008 12:57:44 PM PDT by antonia (Build the Wall Now! "Drill right now, Drill today, Drill all night, Drill all the way!")
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To: pissant

Have the Dems and the Hillary camp condemned this yet? They are even worse than Obama in their silence because they are the importers of this sort of feminist terrorism.


56 posted on 03/15/2008 12:59:21 PM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: pissant
Obama has a talent for candy coating that Marxist poison pill—Marxist Black liberation theology.

Such theology is sweeping through the black churches like New Age theology swept through the Christian churches in the eighties and nineties.

57 posted on 03/15/2008 12:59:42 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: pissant
"Attacks on his church bother Obama"

Obama's church bothers me.

58 posted on 03/15/2008 12:59:49 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: VeniVidiVici

Indeed, we have Goebbels multiplying in the US and we do nothing about it.


59 posted on 03/15/2008 1:00:31 PM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Antique Gal
Now we know where his wife gets her views of America from!!!

A couple of weeks back I read an article in a paper comparing her to Jackie Kennedy. Both fairly tall, well dressed and having an affinity for pearl necklaces. That was at the height of the liberal media fawning over Obama ... it seems the tone is beginning to change.

60 posted on 03/15/2008 1:01:40 PM PDT by BluH2o
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