Seems he belonged to the church for 20 years, but somehow was never there when the ‘bad’ stuff was said and printed in church bulletins. Who would not believe that the junior Senator from Illinois was not telling the whole truth. I will tell you. “Typical white people” know he is lying through his teeth, and this same group will never vote fpr him and his “Black Liberation Theology’
The drip, drip, drip is beginning to unhinge poor Barry. But what will really do him in, what he will be unable to answer or spin, is whether he agrees with the tenets of Black Liberation Theology which his Trinity UCC was founded upon. If he says he disagrees with BLT, then he is a fraud for staying at the church. If he says he agrees with BLT but not with how Pastor Wright espouses it, then he is done. Either way it is the BLT question that will be the gotcha moment for poor Barry. He is caught in a trap and does not realize the more he squirms, the tighter it gets. Kinda like quicksand, he is sinking deeper and deeper and there is no one who can rescue him.
He sure missed a lot of church over the years.
I made this point on another thread: Stop applying conservative ways of looking at this. In my experience, a conservative looks for ways to wrap his brain around his pastor's thinking, and failing that, looks for another church.
For liberals, and a lot of middle-of-the-roaders, if religion is a part of their lives at all, it usually tends to be simply social in nature. You can sit in church, and disagree with your pastor, and be perfectly fine with it, because you're there for your family/neighbors/culture, etc. You know you might have a new pastor in a year or two or ten, so you ride it out, knowing nobody's going to call you on it for sitting in that church.
Obama might find this to be a problem in the general election, but with Democrat voters, this really doesn't mean too much for most of them, they've all got some sermon that they wished they hadn't heard, either.
Indeed. I keep looking at him through this lens.
If he were a white politician who attended a white nationalist/seperatist church which spewed racism and anti-semitism, then he woulnd’t make it past the first debate let alone the first primary. In a sane world, no bigot would get far in politics.
The other thing that does not pass the BS test is this: Barry says that Wright has been his close friend, mentor, and advisor for about 20 years. So, during all this time, the “Reverend” never said, “Barack, let me tell you about the sermon I am working on for this Sunday.” During all that time, Wright never expressed his nutbag views? Sorry Barry, my BS-o-meter is pegged beyond maximum.
“...but somehow was never there when the ‘bad’ stuff ..”