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Barack Obama to Skip Billy Graham Funeral
PJmedia ^ | February 28, 2018 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 03/01/2018 4:19:26 AM PST by billorites

There are few names as associated with modern Christianity as Reverend Billy Graham. For decades, the pastor has served as an advisor to presidents regardless of party. He was a living embodiment of how people should act toward those who may disagree with them.

As the day of the funeral fast approaches, past presidents and other dignitaries are paying their respects: former President George W. Bush did on Monday, and former President Bill Clinton did the same on Tuesday. President Donald Trump will be attending Graham's funeral on Friday.

Yet former President Barack Obama will be skipping it, according to the Associated Press: "Former President Barack Obama is not planning to attend memorial services for the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham this week."

Obama did tweet that Graham was "a humble servant who prayed for so many," but the former president is still opting to skip the services. The message sent by this drops any pretense that Obama actually respects what Graham stood for.

None of this is overly surprising, at least for many American Christians. Obama, despite his claims of sharing their faith, routinely acted in a manner that showed disdain for the faithful. He rarely made an effort to reach out to Christians during his presidency, and actively targeted them with his policies and actions: See his stance on Hobby Lobby, and his never-forgotten feelings on rural Americans being simpletons clinging to guns and religion.

Obama worked to be divisive during his presidency, efforts that ran contrary to Graham's outreach to politicians of both parties, so it's not surprising Obama won't be there. It's not surprising that the best the former president can muster is a tweet for the fallen spiritual leader.

Yet Graham wouldn't harbor ill will toward Obama because of the slight. It's not the Christian way, after all.

If the former president wants to know why our nation is so divided these days, perhaps he would do well to look at this and remember his role in those divisions.


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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; billygraham; husseinobama; snub; x44
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1 posted on 03/01/2018 4:19:26 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

Did his imam warn against it??


2 posted on 03/01/2018 4:21:23 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: billorites

I don’t think the Reverend would want a m*slim-loving America hater at his funeral.


3 posted on 03/01/2018 4:21:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: billorites

...shouldn’t surprise anyone....


4 posted on 03/01/2018 4:21:38 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: billorites

And Democrats still wonder why the average Joe is turning from them.


5 posted on 03/01/2018 4:22:32 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: billorites

Why should/would Obama go?


6 posted on 03/01/2018 4:23:32 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: billorites

A Muslim feels no special attachment to a blasphemous Christian so, why indeed should he attend?


7 posted on 03/01/2018 4:24:54 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: billorites

Good. His presence would defile the service.


8 posted on 03/01/2018 4:27:44 AM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: billorites

who cares? let him go away.


9 posted on 03/01/2018 4:29:43 AM PST by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: billorites

And I was so looking forward to Obama doing a Lot’s wife imitation...


10 posted on 03/01/2018 4:30:04 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: billorites

Bonzo just “exercising” his black privilege.


11 posted on 03/01/2018 4:30:15 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: billorites

What do you expect from a Marxist, Muslim, Anti-Christ?


12 posted on 03/01/2018 4:30:49 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: billorites

doesnt want his ankle bracelet seen?


13 posted on 03/01/2018 4:31:03 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: billorites

I bet Obama skips Rev.Wright’s funeral too.


14 posted on 03/01/2018 4:32:04 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Netz

He skips all the important funerals.


15 posted on 03/01/2018 4:32:30 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: billorites

I actually respect his decision. Apparently, he does have some boundaries to his hypocracy


16 posted on 03/01/2018 4:32:51 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: billorites

I’m okay with Barack the Usurper skipping the funeral of a man whose final destination is most likely in the exact opposite direction.


17 posted on 03/01/2018 4:35:38 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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toord.


18 posted on 03/01/2018 4:35:49 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: hitting center of mass)
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Lying mooselimb.


19 posted on 03/01/2018 4:36:59 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: billorites

Folks, please do not classify Barack Hussein Obama & His wife, Michelle Obama, as either A Christian, Muslim, Jew or, any other religion. The only religion, if you can call it a religion, that the Obama’s adhere to and worship is himself/herself and their unending devotion to “Satan”, The Devil, himself!! Case closed, Amen!!


20 posted on 03/01/2018 4:37:43 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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