22,500 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Trust Obama Denouncing Rev. Wright
As Barack Obama prepares today to make a speech on religion and race, and ultimately to explain away his affiliation with the hateful Reverend Jeremiah Wright, keep in mind this one simple saying: actions speak louder than words. What actions might you ask?
First there is the fact that Barack Obama has been attending the Trinity United Church of Christ for two decades now, where Rev. Wright married he and his wife Michelle, and where he baptized his two daughters.
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with attending and being involved with a church, Trinity UCC has come under fire recently as videos of Rev. Wright's sermons were made available on the web. The contents of those sermons have been described as nothing less than "hateful", "racist", and "anti-American." And they were given by Rev. Wright, who Obama has in the past described as a spiritual mentor and father figure. Obama also credits Rev. Wright with coming up with the title for his book, "The Audacity of Hope."
Barack Obama has unsuccessfully tried to remove himself from the line of fire by explaining that he was not present at those sermons. He's also tried to push aside the man who he has built up so much over the years, labeling him something of a "crazy uncle" who says things that you don't really believe in.
Barack Obama's support of the church, of Reverend Wright, and of the teachings of the church are exemplified in those actions. But perhaps even more telling than the fact that Obama and his family have been attending Trinity UCC and listening to Rev. Wright's shocking sermons for years, is the fact that Barack Obama put his money where his mouth is, making a sizable donation to the church.
Nothing says "I support you" like a hefty donation. Obama's donation to Trinity UCC in 2006, according to his tax returns was $22,500.
So when Obama gives his big speech on race today, ask yourself this question: Is it all just a big pitch to get elected, or are those his real views?
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Great Speech! Homerun
Here is Obama's Speech In Full: A More Perfect Union
Obviously *you* are not a
Obviously *you* are not a church going man or you just have selectively chosen to disengage reasonable thought when you wrote this article. $22500 for two successful attorneys probably amounts to around 10% of their combined incomes, if not less. Many Christians return a 10% tithe to their church. Bone up on your research before espousing bonehead suggestions. You reek of sour grapes a la Ferraro! Are you a Clinton camping diehard? Maybe a Huckabee backer? Or you're nervous like all the other GOP neocons who shudder to face Obama in November.
Yes, a donation to the
Yes, a donation to the *entire church* is equal to "I categorically agree with every single word one Reverend of that church says."
Read today's speech from start to finish.
He nailed it
Said what needed to be said !!! Way to go Obama !! All the way to the Whitehouse !!
I think it's called tithing...
This story was linked to Google news. Amazing! This is nothing more than a letter to the editor. Some, who attend church, tithe (usually 10%, thus tithe). I don't believe tithing constitutes unconditional agreement to clergy, but I could be wrong. I’ve put money in the offering plate, contributed church fund raisers, and etc. I’m against the church on several issues, but believe that overall they make a significant contribution to the community.
Obama
His unpreparedness for when this sh*t hit the fan is the disappointment here, not the stale 40 year old rhetoric. Much of the criticism, minus the radical language, is true, most Americans, bot bigoted and not, bot ones who want to grow past that nonsense and those that want to feed and feast off the racism, would admit it even if some would never do so publicly.
I am sure this will kill his candidacy or at least his electability. That McCain is useless, a warmonger who will have us in wars on every continent and that the only thing he knows domestically is how to bleed banks dry, this seems unimportant, that McCain is backed by countless racists and anti-semites counts far less than Obama's one preacher; not for how long he knew him but simply because he is black and the rhetoric is scarier to whites when directed at them. That Ferraro used coded racism to appeal to aspects of the Pa voter base, this is not as important to media or "fans"
The history of this country is sometimes rather sad and would better be forgotten, wiping out the natives, fighting a war to end slavery and then retracting post-war amend-making so it would take another 150 years for some more progress, sanctioning mass graves of murdered students and intellectuals in Central America, sanctioning torture of Iraqis who were unrelated to al Qada; pandering to racists since Nixon.....we could go on for years listing things. But we live in country in denial so we have all this American Exceptionalism spouted by our candidates and we cover up any true truths. The media, thumb sucking on over-analysisng just about everything, and rarely being right, is bored and afraid of discussing anything in depth, the secret being how densely dumb most of the populace has gotten and proud of their hidebound stupidity.
All the candidates are flawed, we live in inferior times for true giants in the political sphere or in the journalistic sphere.
McCain is also a danger for promising to continue appointing to the courts justices who have made up their minds before even hearing cases, strict obstructionists I call them, pre-programmed, unbending, usually twisting the true Constitutional meanings into some simplistic Ayn Rand-ish comic book version of ideological unmodified dogma. Also a warmonger, he would prefer wars on every continent and would make Cheney seem pacifist.
I am unsure what Hillary is, a nice person with a lot of women haters and Clinton haters that don't really care what she is about.
Our electorate are 1/3 morons who would vote for Hitler if he was eating live babies on TV, as long as he was Republican, 1/3 who have no idea how to think and 1/3 who are now divided and angry at each other, who maybe vote for progress if it doesn't affect their pocketbooks too much. If they are cogent and thinking that election cycle.
Courage is for other ages past, fairness, true democracy. Republicans voting for Hillary to screw up the Democrats is not Democracy, it is childish, it is showing how weak your policies are, how weak your ideas, how pathetically weak your candidates; most of the Bush adminstration has been of this thread. Obstruct, subterfuge, signing statements so he doesn't have to follow laws, vetoes so he doesn't have to do what's right, agencies that mostly steal or misuse funds, rewriting reports so they say the opposite of their findings; in the Senate, the non-filibuster filibuster so 40 votes can block the majority on anything and everything; what did the Republicans call this when the Democrats only hinted they might use this once? undemocratic? no, it was some phrase they invented, like fast-track, the term no one wants to recall vis a vis Nafta and why it had no regulationary aspects included in it.
Why am I bothering, no one cares to pay attention even if I finished a thought before drifting into tangential matters.
The masses are asses and the US public have no independent minds to speak of anymore
Memo to Obama Bots
Obama bots: This jackass gave Rev Wright $22k of his money and you still support him. What is wrong with you people. Do you hate America?
youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5B
youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM This is the link to the racist tirade by Obama's pastor of over 20 years. Judge for yourself.
Republicans: Still Irrelevant
I went to church on Sunday and my pastor asked me to pray for George W. Bush.
I am a member of the church, serve on the vestry - but don't agree with his request.
Does that make me a Republican?
Evangelicals vs. Christians
The US needs to separate Evangelicals from Christians.
There are those of us who prey for peace, have faith, and share hope.
Then there are those who follow Pat Robertson.
Local reader willing to donate one AP Stylebook
Wow, I hope that the church doesn't use that money to, you know, feed the hungry or shelter the homeless. Because I hear they tend to do that from time to time. I hope you remembered to shoot yourself in the foot before you put it in your mouth.
It's simple, its racist.
I cannot believe the spin on this subject.If Clinton or (insert white polition name here) was caught anywhere near a hate-mongering preacher, father figure, mentor,or whatever Obama calls him, they would be run out on a rail. Church of David Duke, why not? Just call him your "crazy uncle". I for one am tired of the crap. Send all flames to dev.null@recyclebin.com
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