[Marxism] ABC: Obama Quits His Church

[Walter Lippmann]

Obama Quits His Church

Share May 31, 2008 6:24 PM

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-quits-his.html

Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, and Sunlen Miller report: Sen.
Barack Obama, D-Ill., today resigned from his controversial church,
Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago.

Obama had been in discussions about resigning with his church's new
pastor, Rev. Otis Moss before the latest controversy, which involved
a longtime friend of Obama's, Father Michael Pfleger, mocking Sen.
Hillary Clinton, D-NY, just last Sunday form the church's pulpit,
using racially charged language, to the apparent delight of the
congregation.

"Rev. Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on,
I really don't believe it was put on," Pfleger said from the pulpit.
"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!'

Pfleger then mocked Clinton's tears.

"She wasn't the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white
people crying!" Pfleger said to laughter.

After his sermon, Rev. Moss thanked Pfleger: "We thank God for the
message, we thank God for the messenger, we thank God for Father
Michael Pfleger," Moss said.

Obama's resignation from his church was first reported Saturday
evening by CNN.

The previous controversy involving his church involved heated
rhetoric from its former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons
used incendiary language to discuss the U.S. and race. The
controversy prompted Obama to deliver a widely-publicized speech
about race and later to condemn Wright.

Sources tell ABC News that Obama felt that as the campaign continued,
the media would continue to focus on the church, to the detriment of
the church community, that Obama would be held responsible for what
happened in the church, and that the Church would be held responsible
for his campaign. It would be best, Obama felt, to simply cut ties.
He has not yet joined a new church.

As he distanced himself from Wright on April 29, Obama expressed
disappointment in how the media maelstrom had intruded on the church.

"When I go church it's not for spectacle, it's to pray and to find to
find a stronger sense of faith, it's not to posture politically it's
not to, you know, it's not to hear things that violate my core
beliefs," he said. "And I certainly don't want to provide a
distraction to those who are worshipping at Trinity. As of this point
I'm a member. I haven't had a discussion with Rev Moss about it so I
can't tell you how he's reacting and how he's responding ... there’s
been great damage."

Obama will address the matter this evening at a campaign stop in
South Dakota.


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     WALTER LIPPMANN
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