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Obama Quits Trinity
Townhall.com ^ | May 31, 2008 | Amanda Carpenter

Posted on 06/01/2008 3:51:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has resigned from his controversial church, Trinity United Church of Christ.

“We don’t want to have to answer for everything that’s stated in that church,” Obama told reporters in Aberdeen, South Dakota during a rare Saturday night press conference.

Obama’s church came under intense scrutiny after videotapes were discovered of Obama’s longtime friend and former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright making anti-American and racist statements in sermons earlier this spring. Obama’s initial reaction was to defend Wright, until Wright engaged on a media tour and reiterated many of his most offensive remarks.

Questions about the church were renewed last Sunday when another one of Obama’s Chicago friends, Father Michael Pfleger, made racist statements pointed at Obama’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

"Rev. Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on," Pfleger said, recalling Clinton’s tearful press conference during the New Hampshire primary. "I really believe that she just always thought, 'This is mine! I'm Bill's wife, I'm white, and this is mine! I just gotta get up and step into the plate.' And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama,' and she said, 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show!”

Obama expressed regret at having to leave his church of over 20 years. “I did not anticipate my fairly conventional Christian faith being subject to such challenge and such scrutiny,” he said in South Dakota.

Obama noted his resignation should not be interpreted as a denouncement of the church. “It’s not a church worthy of denouncing,” he said. Obama said his critics “they’ve seen caricatures of the church and accept those caricatures despite my insistence that’s not what the church is about and there’s not much I can do about it” with a defeatist tone.

TUCC issued a statement that said: “Though we are saddened by the news we understand this is a personal decision.”

Obama’s decision came shortly after a contentious meeting ended in Washington D.C. by the Democratic National Committee to determine how delegates from Michigan and Florida should be seated. Both states were punished by the DNC for moving up their primary dates and were thus stripped of their delegates.

The DNC decided Saturday to seat half of the delegates from Florida and Michigan and to specially allocate 69 of Michigan’s delegates to Clinton and 59 to Obama.

The compromise was fought intensely by Clinton’s surrogates who are unhappy with the outcome of the meeting. Clinton campaign strategist Harold Ickes said at the conclusion of the meeting that Clinton had asked him to reserve the right to challenge the compromise with the Democratic Credentials Committee. This tactic has been deemed the “nuclear option” by political analysts since it would likely extend the Democratic contest until the Democratic convention in Denver.


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; trinityucc
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1 posted on 06/01/2008 3:51:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

And it only took him 20 years to do it.

What a guy.


2 posted on 06/01/2008 3:52:43 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

Notice that he quit after a WHITE, CATHOLIC priest took to the pulpit. Very Clever!!


3 posted on 06/01/2008 3:53:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: Kaslin

What a Boobama, LOL!


4 posted on 06/01/2008 3:54:17 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler ( :: FREE LAZAMATAZ! ::)
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To: samtheman

Well that makes him presidential /sarcasm


5 posted on 06/01/2008 3:55:02 AM PDT by Kaslin (Because the DemocRats lied and abetted the enemy, thousands died)
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To: Kaslin

I expected Father Flim-Flam to break out in a stirring rendition of Mammy!


6 posted on 06/01/2008 3:55:13 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: Kaslin

He can always join Pfleger’s church.


7 posted on 06/01/2008 3:56:07 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Petition For Removal of Father Pfleger
8 posted on 06/01/2008 3:56:18 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Kaslin

Yup.


9 posted on 06/01/2008 3:56:18 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin
Throws his church under the bus for POLITIAL ambition.

Just another politician...

10 posted on 06/01/2008 3:56:45 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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“And it only took him 20 years to do it.

What a guy.”

You are who you hang with.


11 posted on 06/01/2008 3:57:45 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

And one of the people he “hangs with” is an unrepentant terrorist bomber.


12 posted on 06/01/2008 3:58:55 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

I assume the MSM’s take on this will be that it innoculates him from further criticism.


13 posted on 06/01/2008 3:59:42 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Kaslin
I am not denouncing the church. I am not interested in people who want me to denounce the church because it's not a church worthy of denouncing.

This guy is definitely not ready for prime time.
14 posted on 06/01/2008 4:01:58 AM PDT by Krankor (kROGER)
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To: Kaslin

Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has resigned from his controversial church, Trinity United Church of Christ....

now b. HUSSEIN can come out of the closet and go to the mosque of his choice!!!


15 posted on 06/01/2008 4:09:07 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: Krankor

I’d really like to know which dummy is making him talk.


16 posted on 06/01/2008 4:10:36 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Kaslin

Can Osama Barraka say to late?


17 posted on 06/01/2008 4:18:57 AM PDT by exnavy ( conservative, not republican)
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To: Kaslin

Now that he has thrown christianity under the bus he is free to go back to his muslim mosque where they preach the same thing as trinity.

There is a lot of stuff under that bus and it may not be able to move now.


18 posted on 06/01/2008 4:19:20 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist Muslims in the WH)
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To: Kaslin

“Despite my FAIRLY CONVENTIONAL CHRISTIAN FAITH!”
B.O.HUSSEIN, There is nothing conventional about your Faith, even remotely, it is a Hate filled Racist Mismash of retoric and your own Muslim ideaology germinated over your lifetime and pretending it disapeared yesterday wont hide your black theology beliefs from the American Public, at least the Americans with Brains. Ann Coulter has told us that if Democrats had any brains they would be Republicans. We can only pray they will wake up and see You for who you are and VOTE REPUBLICAN To Save America!


19 posted on 06/01/2008 4:20:02 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: Kaslin

Mr. Obama believes if we just sit down and talk with those who hate us we can turn Iraq around. Funny that he couldn’t do it with his own church.


20 posted on 06/01/2008 4:23:30 AM PDT by Raycpa
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