(May 31, 2008):Obama Resigned From His Church And NOW Making Another SPEECH!!!

[califlefty]

News Flash: Bo Resigning From Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago

[Sandy in PA]

CNN is now reporting that Obama is resigning from Trinity UCC.

[agalfromcal4hill]

breaking news...cnn reports Obama resigns church membership...DUH

[Ace]

CNN is reporting that Obama is resigning from the Trinity United Church of Christ according to Roland Martin. A written letter was sent to the church.

[bangorgirl]

bo finnally quite his church, funny he should do it this day.

[B positive]

'bout time! 20 years too late!! We need to see what that letter says!

[xfiles]

Twenty years too late!

[supra5677]

Just breaking on CNN Obama resigns from Trinity church.. You chicken shit..

[Donald]

About time...However, this is a political move and anyone can see this. Why didn't he leave before now? Not good enough.

[joeysky18]

News Flash: Bo Resigning From Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago

After 20 years.

why now? Because it has become a liability.

He is unfit to be a leader. He doesn't stand up for what is right. His actions are motivated by personal gain.

[Meg]

BREAKING NEWS>>Obama leaves Trinity...hmmm

OMG!!! This is the biggest piece of Sh** I've ever heard!!! Of course it only took him 20 F**king YEARS!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[SadStateOfAffairs]

Can you fit the whole church under the bus???:eek:

I really like this as it shows how damaging it's becoming to him. Unelectable.........thats what he is......

[Rick V]

breaking news...cnn reports Obama resigns church membership...DUH

If that is true then it 2 late it has damaged him already, having his former paster and a new paster say thos thins I do not believe him and that is y I will NEVER vote for him.

[bangorgirl]

It's a deal, they said to bo you have to drop your crazy freinds or we will rule in clintons favor.

[ILBlue]

I wonder if he included a nice fat check?

[Brooke]

Too little. Too late. Sorry, BO.

[Linda C]

Who cares..

[bangorgirl]

Too little. Too late. Sorry, BO.

agreed!

[Brooke]

It's a deal, they said to bo you have to drop your crazy freinds or we will rule in clintons favor.

Wouldn't surprise me.

[Eddie3dfx]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Soon he will be resigning from Michelle Obama.

[deniseds]

I wonder if he included a nice fat check?

This man is absolutely pathetic. NOW UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

[Florida Dawn]

Doesn't change my vote.

Does it change your vote? No?

Good! I didn't think so.

What an opportunist! He should have resigned a long time ago.

[lanney]

Now his church under bus, Time for another speech.

[B positive]

About time...However, this is a political move and anyone can see this....

Yes- the timing is curious.... during the middle of the RBC meeting! Some type of distraction, I presume?


Can you fit the whole church under the bus???:eek:
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[RachachaSharon]

There is something seriously wrong with this picture.

If we remove the label of both sides,
forget all about who is for BO or HRC,
forget that this is a meeting of our Democratic Party,

we see one group of people is trying to represent the voters,
while the other group is doing everything to resist it hiding behind the 'rules' created by their hands and pretending that the rules are divine.

This is the crux of the problem within the DNC. They stop representing the voters. They stop preserving the democratic spirit.

That's what happens when people become addicted to power. It's all about them. And being in the "inner circle" is such a turn on. They think they ARE the party.

[califlefty]

Obama was sitting in the pews at the church and then all of a sudden Father Mike came along and Obama shouted "Oh my God somebody is stealng MY show!!!!"

[Meg]

LOOK WHO'S PANDERING NOW!:mad:

Guess what 20 years to F***ING LATE!

[Alex01]

News Flash: Bo Resigning From Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago

Too freakin' funny.:rolleyes: Here's his desperate, last-ditch attempt to look like a decent human being. Won't work.

[Donald]

Who cares..

Its interesting that he picked today of all days to do this.

This to me signals that supers have an issue with this church..However, this looks like a political stunt to me..

Why did Obama not leave this church after Wrights hate speech about America, but chooses to leave after hate speech about Hillary.

He used this church, now he is throwing it under the bus for his own political gains.

[Trina]

Why now???? Because more the idioits are raising up in public? ROTFLMAO I don't care if he resigns now or never, it won't change my mind one little bit. I'm still one of those redneck Kentucky voters that will always cling to my guns and religion. Can't shake this old over 50 woman. My vote goes to McCain worse case, but right now, my vote is and has been cast for our next 44th President, Hillary Clintonf!!

[bangorgirl]

All of a sudden it's wrong, they said it wasn't bo fault, but now they will say that "oh, he quite that church." And it will be all ok.

[NYVIN4HILL08]

I will say or do anything to get elected so i can help my arab friends and americas enemies

[Dendy]

sigh

[Wyoming Dem]

CNN is now reporting that Obama is resigning from Trinity UCC.
Well DUH and Double DUH...just got more crowded under the bus.

[Renee in Florida]

Whats the matter BO? Now that you see the Bylaws committee remains behind closed doors you are pulling out this crap as if leaving now will help.

Must we now withstand yet another one of your PATHETIC explanation speeches this week regarding Trinity church. The minute I saw that church's HATEFUL website I knew you were TROUBLE>

People stay united to defeat this Atrocity called Obama!!!!
I mean he wreaks of corruption!!!!

[ScottVA]

Obama was sitting in the pews at the church and then all of a sudden Father Mike came along and Obama shouted "Oh my God somebody is stealng MY show!!!!"

I wonder if BO will throw MO under the bus when the Republicans bring out the "whitey" videos if he gets nominated LOL

[Lodi]

Obama was sitting in the pews at the church and then all of a sudden Father Mike came along and Obama shouted "Oh my God somebody is stealng MY show!!!!"

:D:p:eek::)!

[Eddie3dfx]

Obama = Political Expediency

[Kbentleyis]

What a load of bull. BO must think we're pretty stupid.

3 strikes and you're out!

[SadStateOfAffairs]

Yes- the timing is curious.... during the middle of the RBC meeting! Some type of distraction, I presume?



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Too Funny...:p

[Tea toaD]

He's covering his as* so no one can call him on it. Political move alright. 20 years and just now finding out it's not for him. Give me a break:mad: I have an idea that this may have been planned. I don't trust him at all:mad:

[Trina]

Maybe he wants his "typical white grandmother" to roll with them.

[Meg]

at this point if he deserves to be the nominee! That way I can watch him get his a** kicked by john mccain and every other republican. Remember Michelle said it this time and that's it!

[B positive]

So, I guess this makes him CHURCHLESS now, eh?

Will he need to join another church? St. Sabina's church is available for his joining... the pastor at St. Sabina's is none other than Fr. Pfleger;) Obama's friend for 20 years!

Again, I stress the need for that letter to be made public.....Oh, god- I just heard Roland Martin say the church was getting threats... If FLUFF uses this as his reasoning I'm gonna' puke!

[Linda C]

Its interesting that he picked today of all days to do this.

This to me signals that supers have an issue with this church..However, this looks like a political stunt to me..

Why did Obama not leave this church after Wrights hate speech about America, but chooses to leave after hate speech about Hillary.

He used this church, now he is throwing it under the bus for his own political gains.

Rev. Wright already spewed hat speech about Hillary and Bill Clinton. I guess the priest got involved and threatened the Catholic vote which he doesn't have.. Well he isn't going to get the Catholic vote. He can't close the circus car door now after the clowns are already out.

[Alex01]

Whats the matter BO?

Must we now withstand yet another one of your PATHETIC explanation speeches this week regarding Trinity church. The minute I saw that church's HATEFUL website I knew you were TROUBLE>

People stay united to defeat this Atrocity called Obama!!!!

Renee, he's making it easier and easier.:cool:

[Eddie3dfx]

I believe the Nation Of Islam is accepting memberships :rolleyes:

[califlefty]

Alert - Meeting Is Reconviening

[Donald]

the media is already spinning for Obama...

He did not do the right thing. He did what was best for his political future.

[Jordan]

This resignation is laughable. It's a bit too late Barry.

[Meg]

Ha even better now people can really believe he's a muslim!:p What a dumbass.... now he has no church to fall back on that says "hey look, I'm a Christian!" it just gets better!

[Morgan]

To little..to late.

[SadStateOfAffairs]

He heard there was a white guy preaching from the pulpit and thought OMG I can't be going to a church where there's a stinkin white guy preaching.

I QUIT!

Ha! Ha! Ha!:p

[HRCin08/GeekLove]

Just reported on CNN.

[Eddie3dfx]

Btw, isn't this so ironic that he does it on the day where all the news is on the DNC florida/michigan debacle.

Kind of like when he held a rezko press conference when the rev wright story was hitting hard on the airwaves.

Yeah, nobody will notice Obama lol

[shenanigans]

Oh! I wonder if he sealed the letter of resignation with a flag pin?

[Dendy]

I wonder if BO will throw MO under the bus when the Republicans bring out the "whitey" videos if he gets nominated LOL

If you ask me, with all the information the Republicans have on him he should throw himself under the bus.

[Jake501]

Too little too late

[erasmus]

Talk about a rat deserting a sinking ship.

[i hate nbc and cnn]

i saw that also. i wonder if he wasnt running for president would he of done this????

[SadStateOfAffairs]

If you ask me, with all the information the Republicans have on him he should throw himself under the bus.

Exactly! All his buddies are waiting for him. That's funny.

[Eddie3dfx]

I hope rev wright says that Obama was there in church when he was spewing his hatred.

[B positive]

Obama was sitting in the pews at the church and then all of a sudden Father Mike came along and Obama shouted "Oh my God somebody is stealng MY show!!!!"

Now that's just funny!:p

[Donald]

Talk about a rat deserting a sinking ship.

So what will he do when things get rough in the White House..Send a letter to congress and quit...one can hope.

[debstew]

How convenient and how political.....This person called Obama and his family sit in that church for twenty years and see those cheers of the congregation of HATING white people. I don't about anybody else but if you truly read the bible....WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN GODS EYES...ALL. And when I see this congregation cheering to hate white people there is NO WAY they know God. And that is one thing I have learned from this Trinity Church and this person called Obama attending it for 20 years....How much white people are hated....And it makes me sick to think that people SPIT on God. And that is exactly what they are doing....JUST SPITTING ON GOD.

[hillary4change]

*YAWN*

[i hate nbc and cnn]

i forget but when he gave the wright speech in philadelphia didnt he say he could not disown his church???

[BillDemo]

http://www.orangeandbluehue.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/shocked.jpg

Is this confirmed? This is huge!!! He can't defend the 20 years he spent there. He's nuts.

[Eddie3dfx]

My favorite response on another blog was this..

Can an entire church (5.00 / 15) (#4)
by ****** on Sat May 31, 2008 at 04:52:12 PM EST

fit under a bus?

[GOHillary08]

News Flash: Bo Resigning From Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago

Kind of a big production, isn't it? If I wanted to leave my church, I would simply not go any longer. He has to send a letter and make national news. What a load of crap.

[BillDemo]

Its interesting that he picked today of all days to do this. This to me signals that supers have an issue with this church..However, this looks like a political stunt to me..

Definitely. The Obama camp must have been told that his church membership is the biggest obstacle for him gaining support among SDs.

[joeysky18]

i forget but when he gave the wright speech in philadelphia didnt he say he could not disown his church???

Yes he said that. He couldn't disown Wright, his church, and his black community.

[blueskygal]

He is trying to capture the NEWS LEAD.

To all those people underneath the bus...
move over and squeeze together
we have to fit the whole church under it.

[Charlie Brown]

What ever.......America looks like a Joke to the whole world...

[Eddie3dfx]

Remember, “I could no more distance myself from Pastor Wright than I could from my white grandmother”?

I guess grandma is on notice.

[joeysky18]

Just breaking on CNN Obama resigns from Trinity church.. You chicken shit..

No apology to HRC. But resign from the church.

[Meg]

Yes he said that. He couldn't disown Wright, his church, and his black community.


HAHAHA! :D He just f*cked over everybody who ever believed that!:rolleyes:

[blueskygal]

we have to fit a whole lot more of you under the bus...

[shadow]

Too little, too late. Does he honestly believe anyone will say "oh, okay, he quit after 20 years, of exposing two little girls to that hate, now I will vote for him"?

Get lost BO. Take your wife with you.

[lakerchick4life]

WOW It just took the moron 20 years to leave a place like that..can you all imagine him as President..it would be like a 2 year old in office..a really really dangerous 2 year old

[NYVIN4HILL08]

he's resigning from the wrong campaign, the loser racist anti-american needs to drop out now so hillary can unite the party and win the g.e..

[skc1976]

It disturbs me that allows so much hatred and prejudice to spew from the places of his "beliefs," and then the day of the DNC hearing for FL and MI, he decides to finally resign. Almost a week after the latest rant too. WHATEVER OBAMA! You're a fraud!

[NYVIN4HILL08]

Ha even better now people can really believe he's a muslim!:p What a dumbass.... now he has no church to fall back on that says "hey look, I'm a Christian!" it just gets better!

he will probably join hillary's church.

[PuppyDogMom]

Btw, isn't this so ironic that he does it on the day where all the news is on the DNC florida/michigan debacle.

Doesn't this remind you of something else? Like the day that John Edwards endorsed Obama? The more he does this, the more he reveals his true, shallow self. He's not even a good politician!

[Soaring Eagle]

Obama is the dirtiest politician i have seen in my years.

[joeysky18]

Too little too late

20 years too late.

[ALL4HILLARY]

A little too late but it shows that Obama will do anything that the times call for just to get elected. After he is elected I will not be surpriced if he goes back again

[Justmy.02]

Kind of a big production, isn't it? If I wanted to leave my church, I would simply not go any longer. He has to send a letter and make national news. What a load of crap.

You got it! But not him...oh no, he has to make a production of it. I'm sure it's politically motivated to win the GE cause he probably thinks he's gonna live in Washington and wouldn't be able to attend anyway.

Just because he leaves this church now doesn't mean the past 20 years of sitting there and associating with those hate-mongering preachers will just 'go away.' All those nasty thoughts are still embedded.

Goober!

[teachgrd3]

ON FOX, waiting for Obama comments on resigning from church. Reports that church members, Obama supporters, are upset and saying he "caved in to pressure."

[UpstateNYRN]

The piece of $hit will sell his own racist mother out if it's in his interest so why not his racist church! Wait until he sells out the frigging country the same way when the going gets tough.

[Eddie3dfx]

Obama is the biggest scum on the face of the earth and will do and say anything to get ahead.
I hope he loses his black support.

[LoveHC]

Has America ever elected somebody who had to resign from his own church! Hilarious. My spirituality was forged in the place I just disowned! If a white guy had to do that, because his church was TOO RACIST, he'd be shunned out of the country. Ferraro was right.

[HRCin08/GeekLove]

On Fox now-- They are waiting for him.

[Renee in Florida]

Yet again we have to see this pathetic supposed leader give another speech talking about that rACIST HATEFUL CHURCH

[Meg]

I have to see this speech on Obama's magical political timing!:rolleyes:

[joeysky18]

Yet again we have to see this pathetic supposed leader give another speech talking about that rACIST HATEFUL CHURCH

I'm so sick and tired of his excuse.

[NYVIN4HILL08]

not interested, never will be

[tcbwriter]

I'd rather stick a needle in my eye then listen to that arrogant jackass.

:cool:

[Tea toaD]

I'm so sick of his frigging bullsh*t. Liar is all he is. Can't stand him:mad:

[xfiles]

Blah, blah, blah, lies, lies, lies, pandering, pandering, pandering!

[EH]

Obama who? Oh you mean that jerk who'll only see the White House in postcards and on TV? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

[B positive]

He always lectures us to not do something he is guilty of!

I'm sure he'll give us a lecture TELLING us to leave organizations that do not represent our values..... DONE- I've left the DNP

[DrLisa]

This looks worse than if he stayed in it. He is admitting how bad it is, but yet was in it for 20 years.

I want to throw up....MSM is going on and on about it now.

[Eddie3dfx]

When Wright dissed Obama, gave his supporters the go ahead to knock wright, Obama has now given the supporters to go ahead to blast Trinity.
When Obama says touch your nose.....

[victory]

Another f-ing BO speech? BOring. I'm sure it's gonna be filled with lies and stuff to make us believe that he's OK. Not falling for it.

I wonder how all the Trinity Church people will feel now when they realize that they were thrown under the bus with granny, and all those typical white people. Hmmmmm.

[Tea toaD]

I think it was all a setup. He knew for the GE he would have to put the church behind him. This has been said a trillion times by pundits. Now all of a sudden a maniac white minister starts ranting and Obama mysteriously leaves the church. :mad:

[Dendy]

Obama supporters, are upset and saying he "caved in to pressure."
This is only the beginning. Soon he'll throw all of them under the bus as well.

[DrLisa]

Hillary is on Fox right now.

[Linda C]

This is only the beginning. Soon he'll throw all of them under the bus as well.

Well by the time he is through most of the country will be under that bus...enough to start their own party.

Did MO resign too?

[Annie]

Obama = Political Expediency


Now he feels he really has won the nomination (even though it isn't his until Denver in August) he is afraid....Michelle's 'whitey' rant will be coming out sooner than he thought.... Also there was a video with his kids dancing behind the Wright jerk - maybe that is the one with michelle ranting. And what happened to the FBI who were there when BO was in the pew during one of the rants.

The repubs have it all. Can Obama be certified to run for US President with all his background terrorist and anti American buddies?

[B positive]

This is only the beginning. Soon he'll throw all of them under the bus as well.

He's trying to get into the WH so he can throw our whole country under the bus! I will not let that happen:mad:

[SugnSpicesmom]

This is hilarious!!!! It's 20 years too late and so obvious as to WHY he's doing it! For political reasons only. What he fails to recognize is that we are smart enough to know that leaving the church doesn't mean a thing - he's still be molded and shaped by 20 years of listening to that shit. He's still the same angry, racist person. What a schmuck!!! Can't you see him in the White House having to give "a speech" every week to take his foot out of his mouth or try and smooth things over? PLEASE AMERICA WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Annie]

Hillary is on Fox right now.

What is she saying?

[agalfromcal4hill]

he's only about 20 yrs too late on this. He's been exposed to this hatefilled organization for the past 2 decades, but his personal views don't reflect their beliefs..my arse.
I hope those AA's get pissed at him for tossing them aside. A man of convictions he is not. When things get tough he seems to throw in the towel too easily. The country can't afford a leader like this...

[joeysky18]

ENOUGH of BO!

We don't want any more of your stinky speech

[Meg]

No shit sherlock! Duh BO everytime something controversial goes on in your church it's stuck yomyou... because you stayed there for 20 years... for someone who went to havard he can't seem to get it!:rolleyes:

[DrLisa]

What is she saying?

She was interviewed having a great time. Fox said an Obama supporter, the GV of PR was just arrested for many crimes. Another bad association Haroldo said for BO. She is leading by double digits down there they said.

[xfiles]

Obama wishes the best for the Trinity members, blah, blah, blah.

Does that include the members who where cheering and clapping at horrible statements Wright, Moss and Pflger were making?

Have those members apologized? If that stuff has no place in church or politics, what about the people who cheered? Do they belong in church or politics?

Let's ask Obama that?

[Eddie3dfx]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!

How sly... Use the media to scapegoat him leaving because of he real reason hes leaving, their racist -anti-american views.

[lanney]

I am waiting for another Speech when he will announce, I am divorcing Michelle for her "mean and bitter" comments.

Please guys, buzz me when that speech will start.

[SugnSpicesmom]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!

Ohhhhh.....so now he's throwing his beloved media under the bus as well!!!!

I wonder how he's going to deal with Michelle if the "Whitey" tape really does exist and is shown to the public. I guess she's under the bus then, too???

[Eddie3dfx]

its starting Lanney.

Obama should apply here

http://www.trincoll.edu/~mlee2/images/Church_of_Satan.jpg

[JOY TO THE WORLD]

Obama is only dissing his church temporarily. Pastor Wright and the congregation should send all the videos of Obama and Michelle to CNN and his pet cable network MSNBC and put them on YouTube. The scenes where he is clapping and nodding his head in agreement with everything hateful being spoken about bitter people clinging to their Bibles and guns! And Obama can keep his can speeches...they are predictable.

[Artists4Hillary]

He should also get rid of his wife.

Too late. Sorry Obama, but this is nothing but political expediency.

He is as transparent as glass.

[Linda C]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!

How sly... Use the media to scapegoat him leaving because of he real reason hes leaving, their racist -anti-american views.


Now he is going to throw the media under the bus? Bad move senator Obama..They created you and the myth that is you..they can also take it away.

The media is OK for Obama not being accountable and blaming others, just as long as they are not ones being blamed.

[luvhillary]

He only did this today to take the focus off the DNC meeting. He has to be in the limelight ALL the time. The media is only happy to oblige. :mad:

[joeysky18]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!


So he still shares their belief.

[Mrsawd]

More political tricks What an ass !

[Bacio83]

I'm so sick of his speeches go home BO!

[underpaidnurse]

he's the biggest tool around. Boy am I glad I got called into work today or else I"d be in the marketplace for a new t.v. after I got done showing what I thought of his desperate attempt to throw everyone under the bus.

[Artists4Hillary]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!

How sly... Use the media to scapegoat him leaving because of he real reason hes leaving, their racist -anti-american views.

Naturally, he's blaming everyone else, this time the press, for his terrible judgement. The man won't take responsibility or hold himself accountable for anything. He blamed Fox for losing KY. Blames Lou Dobbs for the hate crimes against Latinos:rolleyes: He's a child and an idiot.

Yep, he's leaving because of their views, politically expediency. He still believes Wright is right, and is a separatist. Sorry, he's not getting our votes.

[Soaring Eagle]

Obama. Please take your speeches and put them where the sun does not shine.

[underpaidnurse]

He just stated that he will not denounce his church, so what is it?

You either accept the church or you denounce what the church stands for.

Flip flop, double speak, the okydoky.

[underpaidnurse]

now comparing his church to others that speak out about racism and sexism...huh?

[i hate nbc and cnn]

when a reporter ask if this was done for political reasons he gets all angry

[Meg]

Oh he's sweating bullets now(literally)He has no idea what to say.

[nette60]

In November!

[mjoynaples]

Will he need to join another church? St. Sabina's church is available for his joining...


and besides his friend and campaign manager David Axelrod is already on some building committee they could hang out more....

He is sickening... and he is "fielding questions like he getting ready for the White HOUSE I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR BO..." ever!!!!!!!!!!!! NOBAMA for me!!!!

[i hate nbc and cnn]

he doesnt denounce the church but says he doesnt agree with wrights views

[Artists4Hillary]

dear do u realize this is a plot by trinity and obama right?
white people cant be this damn slow . You actually think this is not planned?Wright performing at that conference was planned.Obama than denouncing him was planned.
Shakes my head

He could have left that church when Wright spoke at that conference. He could have denounced the church at that time. He still isn't denouncing that church. The whole thing is sickening.

I don't know what this has to do with white people though.

[VANITY4HILLARY]

He could have left that church when Wright spoke at that conference. He could have denounced the church at that time. He still isn't denouncing that church. The whole thing is sickening.

I don't know what this has to do with white people though.

Alot and this campaign has shown who is the most racist group of people.And that surely is not white people.I am telling you as a blk person that church is the majority of the voices of blk people.
That my dear is a fact.

[mkreyns]

Sean Hannity is on Fox now commenting on Obama's resignation and saying he is unelectable.

[Viktoriya]

Obama and his speeches remind old Soviet Union. Great speeches by our great leaders for every occasion. All media reports and praised the great leader, kisses and hugs by party members. Where is this country going to?

[HillsterHDRC]

There are actually people out there who don't see through him, Nobama? It's very sad that this incapable man thinks he can fool people with his political motivations. I trust Hillary, and I see the love within herself and her family, and there is absolutely no way I will ever support Barack H. Obama.

[Alex01]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I just read over on NoQuarter the theory that the Pfleger thing was staged so BO COULD quote the church. That makes total sense.

It's not going to do him any good. He's sinking like a stone.

[FLHillRodSupporter]

Can you fit the whole church under the bus???:eek:

I can't help but laugh at this comment.... but how utterly true.

As far as I'm concerned, they can keep coming out of the woodwork... who's next?!

[DrLisa]

I'm very confused as to why he chose today to do this. The news was all obout FL & MI, and now it is back on his church.

[Morgan]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I just read over on NoQuarter the theory that the Pfleger thing was staged so BO COULD quote the church. That makes total sense.

It's not going to do him any good. He's sinking like a stone.

I think it was staged to get that priests message out. That clip was recorded with a good camera right in front of the podium. It was no accident.

[Johnf]

breaking news...cnn reports Obama resigns church membership...DUH


The only thing that would make me happy is to learn that Obama is resigning from the party, campaign.

Resigning from his church...it's a little late in the day to be doing that isn't it? Is there anyone he's connected to that isn't either racist, corrupt or a terrorist?

[mooaks]

I think it was staged. Great way to pick up undecided Super delegates. First we had Watergate, and now Dele gate.

[kyforhillary]

Trina what part of Kentucky are you in? We can start the redneck, guntoting, Bible thumping Hillary club in Ky.

[B positive]

Has America ever elected somebody who had to resign from his own church! Hilarious. My spirituality was forged in the place I just disowned! If a white guy had to do that, because his church was TOO RACIST, he'd be shunned out of the country. Ferraro was right.

THANK YOU!

Is anyone else hearing him say he's leaving because of threats and media harassment? Where's the responsibility of his poor judgment?.... No it's someone else's fault...never his! He's leaving to help his church not because his church congregation is racist!

He didn't say a darn thing about his fellow congregants applauding Pfleger's mockery of HRC!!!

[JOY TO THE WORLD]

Ironically he is saying he leaving because of the pressure on the church and their members being attacked by the press!

How sly... Use the media to scapegoat him leaving because of he real reason hes leaving, their racist -anti-american views.

Obama's words do mean something. We should saturate and digg his comments that he left his church and blamed the press...the very ones who have been tickled up their legs, slobbing from the mouth, sweating, ranting and praising the phony messiah. Remember, these pundits have their large egos too and to think that they are now being accused of aiding and abetting Obama's spiritual disconnect is downright cruel :D:D:D:D

[Charlie Brown]

Please tell me it isnt so...Another speech....:eek:


GOOD THING I GAVE UP TV.........:D

[shadow]

This is bullshit. Anyone here who went to church, any church, for years, knows that even when you stop attending, what you learned there stays with you.

He sat listening to that crap for 20 years. So now, he decides to "resign"? What does that even mean? Resign?? When I reached the age of reason and quit going to church, I simply stopped going. Never had to "officially resign". Do churches do that? :confused:

[Bardot]

Wait till the video of MO hits the internet. Will he have to divorce his wife?

Maybe then he can hook up with Larry Sinclair for some quality time!

db

[NYVIN4HILL08]

http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/obamasmokes_small.png (http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/obamasmokes.png)
Obama
"I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

"I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race."

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

"I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.""I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."


"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

"I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."


"I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community."

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..."

"That’s just how white folks will do you."

"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money."
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff."

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion

[NYVIN4HILL08]

The Wife
"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is making a comeback."

"And things have gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime -- through Democratic and Republican administrations -- it hasn't gotten better for regular folks."


"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
"That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."



"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, that you put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, and that you engage."

"Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual -- uninvolved, uninformed."

"... as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."

"If we win Iowa, then we can move to the world as it should be."

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before."

"Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost."

"In defining the concept of identification or the ability to identify with the black community … I based my definition on the premise that there is a distinctive black culture very different from white culture."

[NYVIN4HILL08]

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The Friend
''I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.'' -- quoted on (9/11)

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon."

"I don't want to discount the possibility." -- On would he do it again?

[CriticalOne]

Yeah, the timing of this is just ridiculous. I'd have been less judgement if he'd simply stayed, because now this just looks like a purely political move. lol What. A. Clown.

[Soren]

dear do u realize this is a plot by trinity and obama right?
white people cant be this damn slow . You actually think this is not planned?Wright performing at that conference was planned.Obama than denouncing him was planned.
Shakes my head

totally - down to substituting the church revalation on May 29-30 for the long announced then cancelled Rev. Wright may 29-30 speeches. He decided: let the new pastor handle it. New paster then decided: let a white racist handle it. all planned. all orchestrated.
If a tape comes out of Michelle, they'll just say, "Oh, we quit that church."

[jasonahill]

One thing to watch is the way the media covers BO's move here. I find it interesting now that the black vote will drop from as much as 50% in some states in the Dem Primary down to 14% (or so) in the general, now its time for BO to look more main stream. So, of course distance you're self from the "black community" that you couldn't dissown no more than Rev. Wright.

[Johnf]

Interesting since


Obama Still Proud of His Church

May 30, 2008 May 30, Obama was still proud.


BEGIN TRANSCRIPT


RUSH: Go back to May 3rd, Meet the Press, Tim Russert's show, here is Senator Obama talking about Reverend Wright and Reverend Moss.

OBAMA: He was my pastor, and he built a terrific church. I'm proud of that church. We've got a wonderful young pastor who's there, who's doing, uh -- continuing the terrific work that the church does, and that's my commitment. My commitment is to the values of -- of that church.

RUSH: He's talking about the replacement for Reverend Wright, the Reverend Otis Moss there, "a wonderful young pastor, doing and continuing the terrific work the church does," Reverend Wright. Last Sunday the Trinity United Church of Christ, here is this wonderful young pastor, Otis Moss, introducing the visiting Reverend Michael Pfleger.

MOSS: We are delighted. He needs no introduction. He is a friend of Trinity, he is a brother beloved, he's a preacher par excellence, he is a prophetic, powerful pulpiteer, he is our friend, he is our brother, he is none other than Father Michael Pfleger! We welcome him once again.

RUSH: And here is Father Michael Pfleger.

PFLEGER: When Hillary was crying and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on. 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! Aaarrrgggh." She wasn't the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying.

RUSH: Play number 23 again there real quick, Mike, as much as we can get in of it here.

OBAMA: He was my pastor, and he built a terrific church. I'm proud of that church. We've got a wonderful young pastor who's there, who's doing, uh -- continuing the terrific work that the church does, and that's my commitment. My commitment are to the values of -- of that church.

RUSH: Thank you, Barack Obama. Democrats have gotta be quaking in their boots. They'll never admit it, but this is just too good.


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_053008/content/01125116.guest.html

[Kaylin]

this speech bugged me. he behaved like both he and Trinity Church were victims. and the comment about it not being right to draw the church into politics? well, hellooooo...if they don't want to be drawn into politics, maybe Trinity could stop making political statements from the pulpit.

and I continue to maintain, as loud and as long as you guys will tolerate, that the ONLY victim of Fr. Pfleger's insane racist rant was Hillary Clinton.

[JMS825]

they make it sound like he did a great thing resigning from the church and like he is a great leader for it. It disturbes me that he does this when bad news comes out for him like the rules hearing seating more delegates and PR going heavely to Hillary and the Media just covers Obama's BS

[xfiles]

He is a great QUITTER!

How many more things will he have to quit or renounce or distance himself from before his enamored public realizes he is a fraud!

These are people he CHOSE to be around for a REASON.

REASON: He likes the way they think because he thinks the way they do.

His slip-ups and his writings tell the story!! As do his associations!




they make it sound like he did a great thing resigning from the church and like he is a great leader for it. It disturbes me that he does this when bad news comes out for him like the rules hearing seating more delegates and PR going heavely to Hillary and the Media just covers Obama's BS

[ZY123]

Screw Obama - I care less what he has to say, what he quits next or who he throws under the proverbial bus next. He is corrupt to the highest level. How to know when he's lying? If his mouth if moving.

That circus (I saw just the end of it today) was the most unprofessional, embarrassing spectacle ever. I'm glad I'm no longer part of a party that would promote such a corrupt candidate.

[DrLisa]

Who cares if he says he quits the Church. He is still connected to it...he had the new pastor "pray with him about it" he said today. Wow he really left it.

[lanney]

Lets see when he throw Judas under his bus.
this is from Huff post on VP
Bill Richardson.

Now, I'm probably not the right person to assess Bill Richardson as a game changer, because I always get him mixed up with Sandy Berger. Also, I thought Netroots might be having us on. So I let it go.

(I've also heard that Bill Richardson is a scandal waiting to happen, since he's a sex machine with all the chicks. But, again, I might be thinking of Berger.)

[Hillarysmygirl08]

I dont care rather he quit the church or not he doesnt mean it. I am angry that the crooks in the Democratic Party stole this nomination from Hillary. I am not going to go back to a party that has thugs beat up women for shouting Denver I guess that is Nancy again

[ScottVA]

Wait till the video of MO hits the internet. Will he have to divorce his wife?

Maybe then he can hook up with Larry Sinclair for some quality time!

db

I think there was more motive behind this church thing today then you guys realize.... I think it was done today to overshadow the RBC ruling... but the bigger reason is because what might be coming on Monday or next week sometime where is fairest lady MO is ranting against whites from the church pulpit... LOL As someone said earlier... it's like creating a 10 foot barrier between you and the bus before the bus tries to run you over.... :-)

[DrLisa]

I wish we knew what the tape was really about. I agree there is much more going on with his announcement today. It was way too odd.

[floorrunner]

Now his church under bus, Time for another speech.

That's why he bussed all those people to all of his events. He needed the buses for his church.

[floorrunner]

I wonder if BO will throw MO under the bus when the Republicans bring out the "whitey" videos if he gets nominated LOL

Let's get MO her own bus.

[floorrunner]

Hillary is on Fox right now.

What is she saying?

[Santiago]

Enough with the speeches!

[floorrunner]

This video says it all for me.

YouTube - Deniece Williams & Johnny Mathis 1978

[AlexG]

As I said many times, I do NOT want Obama for president on any circumstance. 20 years supporting his church and just now leaving? If Hillary is not the nominee, I will vote John McCain because I do not Obama for president.

[xfiles]

Today's resignation should highlight to people that Obama is a very poor judge of character, what is right vs. wrong, etc. if he has to leave a church due to all this controversy. Just as he is a poor judge of associates he has had to explain or distance himself from.

A significant # of people want someone with poor judgment as president???

(we all know there is much more that this but at the very least the ignoramuses who support him should be able to see the judgment issue).

Sheesh!

As I said many times, I do NOT want Obama for president on any circumstance. 20 years supporting his church and just now leaving? If Hillary is not the nominee, I will vote John McCain because I do not Obama for president.

[suerw]

About time...However, this is a political move and anyone can see this. Why didn't he leave before now? Not good enough.

Oh, yes. Obviously done for one reason and one reason only -- political expediency.

[suerw]

So, I guess this makes him CHURCHLESS now, eh?


He said he probably won't decide on a church until after January -- quite obvious what he was implying.

[suerw]

i saw that also. i wonder if he wasnt running for president would he of done this????

Of course not. And if the hate filled sermons of Rev. Wright (and later visiting priest Pfleger) hadn't surfaced, O would still be a member of Trinity United.

[HILLARYCLINTONRULES]

Obama supporters are evil

[suerw]

Just because he leaves this church now doesn't mean the past 20 years of sitting there and associating with those hate-mongering preachers will just 'go away.' All those nasty thoughts are still embedded.

The nasty thoughts and the marxist based black liberation theology. Doubtless political ambition was one reason he first associated himself with Trinity United, but the philosophy he found there resonated with the rejection of mainstream American culture that he harbored from an early point in his life (as quotes from his books reveal.) The church and his radical Chicago associates reinforced, over a 20 year period, his own resentments toward this country. He can quit all the churches and organizations he chooses, for political expediency, but this won't change what he is and what he really thinks.

[suerw]

This is only the beginning. Soon he'll throw all of them under the bus as well.

He's going to need a compacter to get all those people under the bus :D

[trooper]

To put it context.....Obama said he will wait until JAN to find a new church...which means "I WILL REJOIN THE TRINITY CHURCH ONCE I AM ELECTED AND THEN YOU "WHITEYS CAN'T SAY A DAMN THING!!!"..He did NOT denouce the church

[Laura Cereta]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Soon he will be resigning from Michelle Obama.

LOL!!! :D He's been trying to shed liabilities left and right. Michelle will have to go. :p

[Christines]

With Obama it is always someone else that is to blame! Give me a break! It is like a First grader that always claims that he is innocent and that the other guy did it!:rolleyes:

[Joe from WI]

BO now blames the media as an excuse to 'resign' from the church. He never ever took any responsibility for his own mistake.

Next he'll blame the weather for the loss in PR primary.

[shadow]

Just once, just one time, I would like to hear OB own his words. Just one time, accept responsibility. He always blames somebody else.

The very few things they ranted at Hillary about (bosnia, Kenedy thing) she stood up, owned it, and apologized. I respect that.

And Michelle, exactly who does she consider "rich and has to give up some of their pie"??? Because if she is for real, that includes HER, and I am now waiting for a check from her. Because I am at the bottom, no pie. She, by her own words, has to give me a hunk of hers. About a quarter mil should do it.

[brussell]

Obama quits church to avoid "political circus"
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-quits-church-avoid-political.html