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Obama Ditches Church 20 Years too Late

May 31, 2008 Political

On March 18^th of this year, after endless coverage of the incendiary remarks by pastor Wright, Barack Obama decided he needed to discuss the issue. Barack Obamessiah gave his More Perfect Union speech where he tried to explain the state of race relations in this country. During this speech he stated:

Going to great lengths and several times repeating his reason for his continued association to Wright and his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Obama said the pastor introduced him to his Christian faith and continues to perform God’s work on Earth.

“As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. … 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,” Obama told an audience at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. [emphasis mine] Fox

Message for Obama’s grandmother, watch out. Today Barack Obama resigned from the Trinity United Church of Christ so it looks as if disowning grandma is not off the table.

Obama wrote a letter of resignation after a guest speaker (and Obama spiritual supporter) at the church gave a speech that hammered Hillary Clinton and made racist remarks about white entitlement. This came as Obama was repairing his damaged reputation that came at the hands of Pastor Wright, his other spiritual supporter (and adviser). Despite the many claims of his supporters and the MSM that Obama has not been harmed by the Wright episode, he has. This newest episode just confirms that Obama spent 20 years at a church that preaches hatred and despite his race relations speech, Obama is part of the racist mindset that exists there. His wife is certainly a black woman with a chip on her shoulder and her statements expose a woman who has a dislike for white people and a hatred for her country.

Interestingly, Obama said he was leaving the church with sadness and that he was doing so because he did not want his church experiences to become a circus (too late for that) and that he was leaving because of a cultural and stylistic gap. He also said that he was sorry for the attention his campaign has brought to the church. Obama said that reporters had taken church bulletins and were calling shut ins and the sick. I suppose what Obama is saying is that he has to quit because of the attention the church is getting not because of what it says or stands for.

I can understand why Obama is upset that his church got so much attention. I imagine he would have rather had the church and its racist philosophies kept under wraps until after the general election. He certainly would rather have won the presidency before anyone found out that he belonged to a racist church for 20 years and that he either agrees with them or is so inept he should not be the leader of our country. As it stands now, he has been harmed by Wright and now Pfleger. Democrats think this is a non issue but recent exit polls show that it made a difference among Democrats. Just think how this will play with Republicans and Independents.

Obama quit his church about 20 years too late and this will certainly play against him for at least the near future. His resignation, despite his faux reasons, only shows America that he finally realized that his church was the wrong one to belong to. It will also show that he was playing politics when he gave his race relations speech and that he actually can disown things.

Unfortunately, it appears he can only do so when it is to avoid political harm rather than when it is the right thing to do. For a new kind of politician he sure looks and acts like the the same old stuff.

Sources:
Politico
My Way News

Tags: church, Obama, racism, resignation

Wright Flock Loses Black Sheep Obama

Apr 29, 2008 Political

For quite some time now Barack Hussein Obama has been taking heat because he attended a church with a racist pastor who hates white people and has a huge chip on his shoulder. Obama had hoped that the furor over Pastor Wright’s remarks had passed and that his [Obama's] speech about race had sealed the deal. Unfortunately, the man Obama described as an uncle more closely resembles the black sheep (pun intended) of the family. I believe that the Obama’s hold many of Wright’s views but don’t want to be associated with them so that he can be elected and Michelle can go on being proud for the first time in her life.

Wright was making the rounds this past week and he ended up at the National Press Club on what turns out to be the invite of a Hillary Clinton supporter. Barbara Reynolds helped get Wright as a speaker. Whether she did it to throw more fuel on the fire and help Clinton or did it to hear what he has to say is a matter of speculation. Regardless of the motive, he did not disappoint people and his anti-American hate filled speech is probably giving Obama more gray hair by the minute.

Obama, who has tried to distance himself from Wright, completely denounced his spiritual mentor and said he was outraged by statements Wright made. Wright told audiences that the attacks were not on him but on the black church as a whole and that the US government created AIDS to get rid of black people. Wright likens this to the Tuskegee experiments early in the last century:

Wright criticized the U.S. government as imperialist and stood by his suggestion that the United States invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against minorities. “Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything,” he said. Breitbart

Just for historical purposes, the experiments dealt with syphilis, a venereal disease. In the 1930s syphilis killed a lot of people and the medication they gave to treat it was often worse than the disease. The medications killed people or made them very sick and often did not cure the infection. A group of people decided to follow black men with the disease (they had it already, the government did not infect them) and see how it progressed. This was a time when there was no real informed consent and the “participants” (uneducated black men) in the study were not informed why they were being observed. Many patients were often not told the truth about conditions at that time in our history.

Syphilis was not brought under control until the invention of penicillin in the 1940s. However, many people in the Tuskegee study were not given penicillin and remained under observation to see how the disease affected them. There is no getting around the fact that these people were used and were the victims of what we would now consider unscrupulous medical practices though at the time they were not seen as such. The fact that they were not given penicillin when it was discovered is a terrible case of malpractice. However, there is no way to equate this to the AIDS virus (which came from a simian virus). Wright is spouting off conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact.

Before I get off this tangent it is important to note one thing. Wright blames the government for HIV and says that this is a way [for whites] to get rid of blacks. Then he brings up the Tuskegee study as if a bunch of white guys went around infecting blacks with syphilis. Two of the people involved in the Tuskegee study were black. There was a black nurse and a black doctor who studied the men who had become (on their own) infected with syphilis. It does not make it right, it only dispels this idea that white guys are trying to kill off blacks.

Is Wright now a thorn in Obama’s side? Wright told people in his speech that he is a pastor and Obama a politician so he speaks as a pastor and Obama says what politicians have to say [to get elected]. Does this mean that Obama agrees with Wright but says the opposite in order to gain higher office? Regardless of what he means, it is obvious that Wright has blackened Obama’s eye. It looks as if Wright has been offended by Obama’s constant denunciation of him and his preachings.

Is Pastor Wright now deliberately sabotaging Obama because Obama has distanced himself from his one time spiritual adviser? Has Obama become the black sheep of Wright’s flock? It seems like Wright is an intelligent man so he has to know that his multiple appearances will adversely affect Obama. Is he so vain that he is blind to the effect he is having or has he decided that Obama needs to pay for denouncing him? Does Wright think that trying to redirect the blame by saying white people are attacking the black church will play well with the very white people Wright thinks are racists?

It seems as if Pastor Wright has turned against Barack Obama. Is it because he is upset?

Or did the Clintons get to him?

Obama has Wright to mess things up and Hillary has Bill. You have to love watching the Democrats implode.

Tags: AIDS, church, Clinton, Obama, racist, tuskegee, wright