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Attacks on his church trouble Obama
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | MARY MITCHELL

Posted on 03/15/2008 4:47:13 PM PDT by indcons

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Obama strongly condemned the racially explosive language attributed to Wright.

“We are still members of the church.”

Obama's bamboozling us.

21 posted on 03/15/2008 5:02:20 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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“We are still members of the church,” Obama said.

He wouldn't dare leave. His wife would hang him out to dry. They fully believe every word spoken by the good rev.

He's in pickle -


22 posted on 03/15/2008 5:03:11 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: PGalt

The drive bys are reporting on this story with utmost reluctance. Their chosen candidate just destroyed the “moderate” image that the drive-bys created for him.

I won’t be surprised to see the MSM spin this as Buraq’s Sista Souljah Moment.


23 posted on 03/15/2008 5:03:27 PM PDT by indcons (Buraq was the name of the horse on which Mohammed supposedly "travelled to heaven and back.")
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To: indcons
An old newsmax article places Obama at at least one of the hateful sermons http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml?s=lh
24 posted on 03/15/2008 5:04:12 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: maine-iac7

This whole g_d awful mess indicates that BO is an empty suit.


25 posted on 03/15/2008 5:04:50 PM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: indcons
Wright is not involved in Obama’s campaign

He was until it got too hot! No excusing here

26 posted on 03/15/2008 5:04:54 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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As the gospel teaches, Obama is looking for a way to condemn Wright’s actions but still love the man.

Garbage. One may love a man but disassociate himself from that man. Obama has failed to do so for decades. That's the issue.

27 posted on 03/15/2008 5:05:30 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: LiberConservative

Rev. Rul. 2007–41
Organizations that are exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as organizations described in section 501(c)(3) may not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.

26 CFR 1.501(c)(3)–1: Organizations organized and operated for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/rr2007-41.pdf


28 posted on 03/15/2008 5:06:09 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: LiberConservative
Reverend Jesse Jackson
Reverend Al Sharpton

These too need to be looked into by the IRS.
Don't think Gestapo, think illegal gamers.

29 posted on 03/15/2008 5:07:10 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()... Cevapi & Slivovitz for everyone....()
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To: indcons
LOL! Sorry, guys, this dog ain't hunting. Too many film clips of Uncle Jeremiah out there ready for Hill's team to inject them into the public consciousness. Obama's had one chance to distance himself from this rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth racist and he flubbed it. He'll be given another, but is he even capable of taking it?

Already there has been one disastrous attempt to spin this affair by his own people, in the form of strident cries of "what has Wright said that's wrong?" Plenty, as it happens, the old attempt to bully people out of questioning it by accusations of racism is simply not going to work this time.

And so at last we do end up having that "dialogue on race" that the liberals have been forever babbling about but terrified to actually enter. This one, unlike the predecessors, isn't going to consist solely of accusations on the one side and apologies on the other.

As important as the candidate is the team he or she will bring to office. In this particular case the prospect of empowering a gaggle of resentful, aggrieved hatemongers is one that no one in the MSM has had the courage to consider. Do these people speak for Obama's team? Does his wife? Is this sort of vicious, hate-filled rhetoric to become enshrined as canon within the Democratic party? Or is it already?

If Hillary thinks this line of attack can be brought up to damage her opponent and then put back in the bottle she'd better wake up and smell the molotov cocktails. This stuff is incendiary, and it isn't going out with a cheery "Well, whatever, it's time for a healer, not a divider," when she crosses the finish line in Denver. But ultimately it is Obama himself who is going to take the rap for it, and he deserves to. IMHO.

30 posted on 03/15/2008 5:08:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Maybe Obama should try crying. Worked for Hillary.

This is typical Liberal tactics. Make the perp into a victim and finger point.

“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

Yup it's all the talk shows' fault. Obama, meet fairness doctrine.
31 posted on 03/15/2008 5:09:14 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: indcons

I like how the singled out Fox News (Hannity & Colmes, specifically). Of course none of the other networks would dare...


32 posted on 03/15/2008 5:11:48 PM PDT by Zeon Cowboy (Pardon Ramos and Compean NOW! // R.I.P. William F. Buckley // Worst. Election. Ever.)
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To: mass55th

Right and let’s face it, he is ONLY concerned about his OWN campaign, he is falling from his golden pedestal now that the smoke and mirrors are getting clearer.


33 posted on 03/15/2008 5:12:48 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: indcons

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.

“Charismatic” is what the left calls black racism?...Gag me with a spoon!


34 posted on 03/15/2008 5:15:40 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: maine-iac7

if a candidate went to a church that preached that Jesus was the son of God and that the only path to salvation was to believe that he was born and died for the forgiveness of their sins he would be denounced as a right wing nut but obama gets a free pass in spite of going to a church that is the black equivalent of the KKK


35 posted on 03/15/2008 5:17:07 PM PDT by bigjackattack
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To: LiberConservative
They start going after churches and I start thinking "Gestapo"

No one forces a church, or any other “nonprofit” to voluntarily apply for tax-exempt status, with the concomitant voluntary quid pro quo of limiting their political advocacy speech.Churches, Red Cross, March of Dimes: all the same, when it comes to politics & taxes.

Nobody says they can't take the NRA route, and play on the other court.

36 posted on 03/15/2008 5:21:05 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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"If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me," Wright told The New York Times with a shrug. "I said it to Barack personally, and he said 'yeah, that might have to happen.'"

But only as a public ploy - and only until he made it to the WH =

Just like the "uninvite" to open the meeting with prayer - but he had him backstage for a prayer before he went on.

Double speak = forked tongue

37 posted on 03/15/2008 5:21:12 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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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.

I bet his wife does not agree! She is a separatist! And the more dangerous of these two!

38 posted on 03/15/2008 5:34:33 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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39 posted on 03/15/2008 5:40:01 PM PDT by The_Macallan
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Well, well!!!! after watching news clips of Rev. Wright sermons from the past, its 100% clear why Michele Obama has such a NEGATIVE opinion of the USA.......
40 posted on 03/15/2008 5:43:08 PM PDT by geo40xyz ((McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?))
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