Obama resigns from controversial church

[Dos Equis]

How convenient.   

Obama resigns from controversial church

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's campaign confirmed Saturday that he has resigned from the church where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers created repeated political headaches for the Democratic frontrunner.


Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has confirmed his resignation from Trinity United Church of Christ.

The resignation comes days after the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a visiting Catholic priest, mocked Obama's Democratic rival during a sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.

In the video, Pfleger wipes his eyes with a handkerchief and suggests that Sen. Hillary Clinton wept because she thought that as a white person and the wife of a former president, she was entitled to the presidency.

"And then, out of nowhere, came 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama,' " Pfleger said "And [Clinton] said, 'Oh, damn, where did you come from? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show!' "

Pfleger is a Catholic priest at St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's southwest side. He is also a friend of Trinity's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from whom Obama distanced himself in April.  Watch Pfleger mock Clinton »

Wright, Obama's minister for about 20 years, drew unwanted attention for the campaign when videos of his fiery sermons surfaced.

In the speeches, Wright suggested that the U.S. government may be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and equated some American wartime activities to terrorism.

Obama has said he was not present for the controversial sermons by Wright or Pfleger.

His campaign condemned Pfleger's comments.

"As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us but by all that that unites us," Obama said in a statement Thursday.

"That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."

The Clinton camp also condemned Pfleger's remarks.

"Divisive and hateful language like that is totally counterproductive in our efforts to bring our party together and have no place at the pulpit or in our politics," the Clinton campaign said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/31/obama.church/index.html

[calmus]

Should I call you a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE?

[Dos Equis]

lol.  Nah.  I think it's busy with the rabid Chihuahua. 

[Dos Equis]

 



http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/31/obama-resigns-church-membership-in-chicago/




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24908975/

[calmus]

Nice photoshop of Obama's chin in the first pic. 

[Camel Jockey]

Good. 

[BayGBM]

“I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me...”

--Barack Obama

[calmus]

“I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me...”

--Barack Obama

Oh, give it up already, you're girl is as done as she will ever be

[Dos Equis]

“I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me...”

--Barack Obama

Doh!  And this is from the great race speech. 

[youandme]

Little too late

[drkaje]

Hillary was better off with him in the church. His officially leaving distances him from black people and makes him more electable.

[240 is Back]

He did it on a wise day.  Split the news between the dem decision and this story, and do it on a saturday before puerto rico.

monday's news cycle will have all 3 of these stories, and most likely focus on hilary's next move.

when cited later for the rev, obama can accurately say "i resigned from that church".

smart timing.

[tonymctones]

blah blah blah......no one cares!


NT

lol you say that wait until the general election if the republicans make a stance on this i guarantee it will swing a number of voters, maybe not to vote for McCain but to not vote at all...the guy sat in this church for what 15+yrs LOL YOUR RIGHT I GUESS HE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE !!!!!! muhahahahharteahhaefkl;ya sure buddy. Im not saying McCain is the answer but this dude is a straight up pimp, whoring us all out telling us what we want to hear.

[drkaje]

lol you say that wait until the general election if the republicans make a stance on this i guarantee it will swing a number of voters, maybe not to vote for McCain but to not vote at all...the guy sat in this church for what 15+yrs LOL YOUR RIGHT I GUESS HE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE !!!!!! muhahahahharteahhaefkl;ya sure buddy. Im not saying McCain is the answer but this dude is a straight up pimp, whoring us all out telling us what we want to hear.

You're giving the voters to much credit. The church knows distancing Obama from blacks will help him get elected, it's all contrived.

Can't remember the percentage but very few blacks vote. Generally blacks vote against a person, not for one. Bill Clinton understands that concept better than anyone in politics.

Lame as the "vast right wing conspiracy" is... I wouldn't be surprised if republicans had a hand in advancing Obama's political rise. H. Clinton is so polarizing (and very likely evil) that people would rather have a half-Black president than her.

[shootfighter1]

Pfleger is a complete as-hole.  That church is drama, peroid.

I am happy to see Obama publically distance himself from that church, even if it is for political reasons.  Thats still sending a good message. 

Yet, it still bothers me that our next likely president was a member of a (at least semi) racist, left wing ideologic church with radical pastors like this.  If Obama was white, this 20 yr association with these radical friends & preachers probably would have probably closed the door for him.  McCain's distant association with Hagee is significantly different.  Pleger's remarks were straigh up racist.