OMG- I think you’re on to something there.
This could be huge.
LEt me email this to someone who might be able to freeze it.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/attending_a_white_church_with.html
A different kind of church appearance for Obama
by John McCormick
MASON CITY, Iowa – Attending church with Sen. Barack Obama here today was a much different experience than one a few weeks ago in a struggling neighborhood in Des Moines.
The congregation of 100 or so here at the First Congregational United Church of Christ was almost entirely white, while the one at Union Missionary Baptist Church was almost completely black.
And so Obama’s low-key approach during a five-minute greeting to the gathering was significantly different than the fiery message he delivered in Des Moines or at other black churches he attends.
From the start, the pastor acknowledged as much, commenting on how the congregation is heavily “northern European,” a group she suggested is more staid in its approach to church music.
As he typically does, Obama first mentioned his home church of Trinity United Church of Christ. But he simply said it was in Chicago, rather than stressing that it was on the city’s South Side as he did in Des Moines.
After rising from his second-row pew, where he was seated next to one of his precinct captains, Obama’s message to the church was that he is trying to apply the values he has learned in church to life on the campaign trail.
“During this holiday season and during this political season, I’m continually reminded that the values that I learned … in church as part of the UCC community, are values that can’t just stay in church, but have to be applied outside of church,” he said.
It’s a splice...it is Obama but the setting is different (and more sedate).
That’s a completely different white fence behind him then anything else in that church, though. It looks like two different pieces of video...bummer!