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Obama: Actually, I can quit you
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Salena Zito

Posted on 06/01/2008 6:20:57 AM PDT by Salena Zito

Obama: Actually, I can quit you Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito WASHINGTON -- After the second Academy Award-winning performance by a pastor at his family's church, Trinity United in Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama quit his parish.

Robert Gibbs, Obama's campaign communications director said Obama had resigned from the church "over the last few days."

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


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1 posted on 06/01/2008 6:20:57 AM PDT by Salena Zito
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To: Salena Zito
Obama Quits Trinity

So now it's just down to the Father and the Holy Ghost.

2 posted on 06/01/2008 6:22:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Problem: He waited until a white, Catholic priest took to the pulpit. I’m betting Obama himself set this up!!


3 posted on 06/01/2008 6:26:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: Salena Zito

Too little, too late there Hussein!


4 posted on 06/01/2008 6:27:36 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Sacajaweau

Obama abandons the folks who may need him most.


5 posted on 06/01/2008 6:28:41 AM PDT by Son House ( BMT ==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just Say No To Democrats!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 06/01/2008 6:30:55 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

He still has his holy trinity, “Me, Myself, and I.”


7 posted on 06/01/2008 6:31:02 AM PDT by Ratblaster (HILLARY 08 Bring Back the Crooked Hillbillies)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That was really, really good. LOL!


8 posted on 06/01/2008 6:31:10 AM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Salena Zito

Great title; it says it all, bringing to recall the statement about how “he could never disown Jeremiah Wright”, but then did; and Grandma under the bus. He’s been esposed as a complete charlatan, to those who are willing to listen.


9 posted on 06/01/2008 6:33:18 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Sacajaweau

I agree. It’s a set up. His wife would be throwing a hissy fit if he took away her sacred leader. You know the one that is completely racist and hates America.


10 posted on 06/01/2008 6:35:26 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

LOL!!


11 posted on 06/01/2008 6:35:35 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
So now it's just down to the Father and the Holy Ghost.

Well played, sir. I hope some TV pundit steals that line and lets everyone hear it.

12 posted on 06/01/2008 6:36:14 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate" Ibn Warraq)
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To: Sacajaweau
B.S. - Unless Obama plans on derailing his own campaign, he would have never “set this up”! That's a ridiculous assumption.

Obama is used to the kid glove treatment by the MSM/DBM and even they couldn't turn a blind eye to the inflammatory racial speech (peppered with cursing) that this so-called “church” continues to espouse.

Put a fork in Obama. He's done when it comes to the presidential election, unless "goody two shoes McCain" wants to continue giving Obama, the white man America hater, a pass.

13 posted on 06/01/2008 6:39:08 AM PDT by right wing (The Drive-By Media Are Terrorists Too)
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To: Salena Zito

Remember when he said this just a couple of months ago:

“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. These people are a part of me...”


14 posted on 06/01/2008 6:43:00 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: right wing
So for twenty years Obama listened to this stuff and was mentored by these people but now he's had enough? How convenient for him.
15 posted on 06/01/2008 6:46:36 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Red Boots

So 20 years of going to this cauldron of hate and now he wants to quit. A lifetime of bad judgement cannot be overcome by an empty campaign jesture.


16 posted on 06/01/2008 6:47:54 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Obama Quits Trinity

Actually, I have been thinking about it since last night and have come to the conclusion it is the other way around.

Trinity quits Obama

The radicals, both white and black are serving notice, "We made you what you are today and we can break you. Black Marxist Theology and Weatherman radicalism are more important than your puny run for the President where you might have to compromise our beliefs."

At least that is how I see what they are saying.

17 posted on 06/01/2008 6:50:25 AM PDT by JimSEA (Kaffur and proud of it.)
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To: Salena Zito

Obama is beyond clueless. Now, this leads to interesting conclusions about his followers.


18 posted on 06/01/2008 6:52:49 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: normy

I know. Who, other than the koolaide drinkers and the commie media, can swallow that one?


19 posted on 06/01/2008 7:02:19 AM PDT by right wing (The Drive-By Media Are Terrorists Too)
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To: Salena Zito
BOOK DEAL IN THE WORKS!!!

TITLE: "AN INCONVENIENT FAITH"

20 posted on 06/01/2008 7:04:08 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Sacajaweau

The New York Times reported in early May that the Catholic Church run by Rev. Pfleger received a $100,000 earmark from Sen. Obama and that Pfleger is one of the religious leaders whose “faith testimonials” is posted on the Obama presidential campaign Web site.


21 posted on 06/01/2008 7:13:49 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

LOL!


22 posted on 06/01/2008 7:18:26 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Salena Zito
Obama quit his faith, loses his religion. Obama may revert back to Muslim!
23 posted on 06/01/2008 7:18:39 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Salena Zito; PhilDragoo; potlatch; devolve; pissant; Ernest_at_the_Beach

It is a safe guess that Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas’s focus groups and internal polls and the DNC’s show that Middle America will no longer tolerate Black Racism and Black Racist POS’s posing as ministers. Nor will they vote for a Black Racist, who hates America, Whites and real Christians and Jews.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_el_pr/obama

There is no way that Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas would have left this anti America Black Racist POS phoney church if not for the internet, Sean, Rush, U Tube and other sources of the real news.

The next target of opportunity are the longtime Anti America black and white mentors/buddies of Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas’s past and present.


24 posted on 06/01/2008 7:19:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas's Pastor Wright: "God Damn America, U.S.to Blame for 9/11")
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To: Sacajaweau

The nutty priest is a long-time friend of the church, preaches to his own largely black church, and has been for reparations.


25 posted on 06/01/2008 7:23:00 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: snippy_about_it
National Review Online links to the NY Times article (subscription required):
Houston, we have a problem. New York Times from May 11:

Typical of Mr. Obama’s earmarks was a $100,000 grant for a youth center at a Catholic church run by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a controversial priest who was one of the few South Side clergymen to back Mr. Obama against Mr. Rush.

Father Pfleger has long worked with South Side political leaders to reduce crime and improve the community. But he has drawn fire from some quarters for defending the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and inviting him to speak at his church. Father Pfleger, who did not return calls for comment, is one of the religious leaders whose “faith testimonials” Mr. Obama has posted on his presidential campaign Web site.

David Axelrod, the chief strategist for the Obama presidential campaign, said that Father Pfleger was “remaking the face” of Chicago’s South Side and that all of Mr. Obama’s earmarks went to worthy programs like his. 05/29 10:32 PM

Obama will have a hard time distancing himself from a priest for whom he made the effort of making an earmark for
26 posted on 06/01/2008 7:27:51 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: snippy_about_it
The New York Times reported in early May that the Catholic Church run by Rev. Pfleger received a $100,000 earmark from Sen. Obama ...

Very interesting. Let's crunch some numbers, shall we? Let's say -- for the sake of discussion -- that every American tax-paying family pays $10,000.00 a year in taxes. OK?

So this means that 10 tax-paying American families go to work everyday, toil day in and day out, for an entire year, to make money that provides Pleger with his $100.000.00 earmark.


27 posted on 06/01/2008 7:30:49 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“parish” is not exactly the word to use with a “stand alone” church.


28 posted on 06/01/2008 8:20:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
“stand alone” church.

And this is an oxymoron.

29 posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:14 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: Salena Zito

Everyday ... just a little more interesting.


30 posted on 06/01/2008 9:21:25 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Salena Zito
"Obama's resignation is a complete departure from his now famous 'race speech' in Philadelphia where said he disagreed with Wright but portrayed him as a family member he couldn't quit."

This is the point that needs to be emphasized. Barry played that speech with such apparent sincerity that the entire left was calling the greatest speech since "I have a dream". Now Barry has acknowledged through his actions that it was complete, utter 100% BS.

31 posted on 06/01/2008 9:28:49 AM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Obama and his merry band of bigots are going to lose in November. The Dems have definitely given up the high moral ground this election. They always start out with it because they tend to complain about social problems. Now, they represent a social problem: anti-white bigotry.


32 posted on 06/01/2008 10:21:32 AM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: Salena Zito

20 years too late


33 posted on 06/01/2008 10:23:47 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
So now it's just down to the Father and the Holy Ghost.

EXCELLENT!

We have already seen that Obama prays to HIMSELF:

But he does find time to pray.
"It's not formal, me getting on my knees," he says. "I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.
On the other hand, Obama certainly has a very clear understanding of what it means to be “a Christian:”
His mother, he says, was a Christian.
In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as "a lonely witness for secular humanism."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
DG

34 posted on 06/01/2008 11:12:26 AM PDT by DoorGunner ( "...and so, all Israel will be saved.")
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To: Salena Zito

O’Bama Shrugged


35 posted on 06/01/2008 11:13:26 AM PDT by RightWhale (We see the polygons)
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To: Salena Zito
The Great Obomanation’s inability to stop smoking shows a lack of personal control where his mind is unable to gain control over his bodily cravings. Perhaps tinged with a emotional weakness which leads him to seek out a chemical crutch to support sooth his knowledge of his inabilities to coap with unpleasant realities.
36 posted on 06/01/2008 11:20:38 AM PDT by fella (Is he or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
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To: fella

Golly gee willikers, the guy is a Marxist, elitist, America hating, leftist, dangerous pacifist...and the only thing you can “THINK” is wrong with him is that he smokes cigarettes.

WAYR?


37 posted on 06/01/2008 11:47:34 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Golly Gee, are you so shallow that you can't see an underlying personality weakness revealed by his inability to follow through on a personal goal of stopping to smoke. It's an indicator of his inability to follow through on any goals (Re: Campaign Promises) that he sets for himself in any arena. The man can not control himself much less another person or organization, instead they will control him.
38 posted on 06/01/2008 12:03:03 PM PDT by fella (Is he or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Muslims and the Trinity don’t mix!

Hey, he can always fall back on Allah.


39 posted on 06/01/2008 12:03:21 PM PDT by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: fella

SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Don’t mess with me right now. I am very angry that I went 0 for 2 in todays softball game and misplayed a fly ball.

If I have to tear into you to make up for it, it’s your fault.


40 posted on 06/01/2008 12:16:20 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Salena Zito
Obama has been a member of the black version of the KKK for 20 years. His friends and preachers are all avid black KKK members who practice black storm front teachings. He IS a racist. The mentality that allows him a free pass on this is sickening. If a white person showed such racist ties he would have been shouted out of politics and perhaps thrown in jail.

This needs to be shouted from the housetops, wake up America! Black liberation teaching is as racist and dangerous as ANYTHING the KKK or white supremacy ever came up with. Do blacks put up with the KKK, hell no they don't. They push for its eradication because they recognize the danger it presents toward their race. Why should white people have to act as though black hate, racism and prejudice is less evil. Why shouldn't these black hucksters be delegated to the the same level as their white racist counterparts have been. They call them reveruuund, I call them grand dragons of black KKK theology, all they lack is hoods.

41 posted on 06/01/2008 12:27:49 PM PDT by Snurple
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To: Salena Zito
Obama told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times that he had three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks and Father Michael Pfleger.

Obama is essentially saying that he has officially quit the Ku Klux Klan but that his "mentors" are the current KKK Grand Wizard, the current leader of Storm Front and David Duke.

But, since he officially quit the KKK, that makes it all hunky dory.

42 posted on 06/01/2008 2:07:21 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Don Corleone
I agree. He's already admitted his alliances with the bogoted "church" and "pastor." Quitting now just shows that he'll toss any baggage into the river in order to win.

It's not about theology: It's about appearances.

Too bad, Barry Hussein: We've seen your innards, and we know that they ain't perty!

43 posted on 06/01/2008 2:11:33 PM PDT by bannie (clintons CHEAT! It's their only weapon.; & Barry/Barack has two faces.)
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To: bannie

Pastor Wright married Machelle and I and baptized our children.............yea
but WHO baptized you and Machille, Mr. O? Or...are you a Muslim?


44 posted on 06/01/2008 3:24:07 PM PDT by cornbreadmuffin
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To: maggief
Frist to Obambi: "My halo is bigger and cooler than yours!"

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45 posted on 06/01/2008 6:25:08 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: snippy_about_it

An earmark? With my tax dollars?


46 posted on 06/01/2008 6:33:32 PM PDT by JavaJumpy (Let's have a whinefest, shall we? Mark Levin)
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To: Sacajaweau
Catholic priest took to the pulpit. I’m betting Obama himself set this up!!

That was my take as well. He's been hoping that this would die off, and eventually seeking a way out, for months. Suddenly, out of the blue, a WHITE priest shows up at this black separatist "church" and starts spewing garbage. Then Obama gets to bow out due to the rantings of a WHITE priest. Ya, sure.

47 posted on 06/01/2008 6:37:37 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

GMTA, Lonesome.....you beat me to it.


48 posted on 06/01/2008 6:40:13 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn" --Delmore Schwartz)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

GMTA, Lonesome.....you beat me to it.


49 posted on 06/01/2008 6:40:23 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn" --Delmore Schwartz)
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To: doug from upland

Yeah, they can take the reparations from his skinny a$$.


50 posted on 06/01/2008 6:42:44 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (Michael Steele for VP)
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