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Topic: Obama's takes "leave of absence" from TUCC
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| Queen Kong | Posted – 6/2/2008 5:05:13 AM | show profile You might think that on May 31st, Obama cut ties with Trinity United Church of Christ -- but think again. He didn't. He only distanced himself from the church because it was generating too many headlines that were inconvenient for the Obama '08 campaign. (I wish I could post the entire following article so you could just read it without having to go to another website, but it's not allowed -- however, this is one of the most insightful pieces on the Obama-TUCC bondage.) Obama Acts Like Obama Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine, 06.01.2008 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/8911 True to form, Barack Obama?s explanation yesterday of his reasons for leaving Trinity Church are a model of double-talk. (And the remarkably passive media pack doesn?t make it very hard for him to avoid further scrutiny.) He has, he explained | ?tremendous regard? for the church community, but said he could not live with a situation where everything said in the church, including comments by a guest pastor, ?will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held, views, statements and principles.? | And he would have remained in a church for two decades where regularly people spoke out in ways which conflicted with his principles because . . . why, exactly? We don?t know. And no one in the press thought to ask. But it gets worse. ABC reports: | He insisted that Trinity itself is not a church worth denouncing. ?I?m not denouncing the church and I?m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church, because it?s not a church worthy of denouncing, and so if they?ve seen caricatures of the church and except [sic] those caricatures despite my insistence that that?s not what the church is about, then there?s not much I can do about it.? | Yes, remember Obama does not do denouncing. There is nothing a Wright or Pfleger or Ayers can do which deserve condemnation. Unless, of course they visit the National Press Club and critique his sincerity. |
| al medio | Posted – 6/2/2008 9:33:04 AM | show profile This is my problem with Sen. Obama. No person can do the job of the president by themselves. So depending on their experience they will need the help of their advisers. This is a major stumbling block for me concerning Sen. Obama. The people who supported and advised him for the past twenty years are not the people I want advising him on how to run this nation. |
