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"Obama's Politically Motivated Good Judgement"
In this Oct. 31, 2004 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., then Democratic senatorial candidate, prays during a services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent remarks at the church by Rev. Michael Pfleger.
Barack Obama has resigned his 20 year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent fiery remarks at the church by another minister.
Obama said he disagreed with Wright but initially portrayed him as a family member he couldn't disown. The preacher had officiated at Obama's wedding and been his spiritual mentor for some 20 years.
But six weeks after Obama's well-received speech on race, Wright claimed at an appearance in Washington that the U.S. government was capable of planting AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested that Obama was acting like a politician by putting his pastor at arm's length while privately agreeing with him.
Obama denounced those Wright comments as "divisive and destructive."
Comments by Wright inflamed racial tensions and posed an unwanted problem for Obama, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, as he seeks to wrap up the nomination.
More recently, racially charged remarks from the same pulpit by another pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, kept the controversy alive and proved the latest thorn in the side of Obama. Pfleger mocked Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as a guest speaker at Obama's church.
On Thursday, Obama was again forced to reject another man of the cloth, this time Pfleger, who made racially charged comments mocking Clinton in a guest sermon at Obama's church.
Obama made it clear he wasn't happy with the comments — in which Pfleger pretended he was Clinton crying over "a black man stealing my show" — and said he was "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."
Pfleger, too, issued an apology, saying he was sorry if his comments offended Clinton or anyone else.
The timing of Obama's decision was clearly planned with an eye toward Washington and the calendar. The news broke late on a Saturday and while most of the political attention was focused on the Democratic National Committee's struggle to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan.
Father Pfleger's Rant - Final Straw or Obama Exit Strategy?
Senator Barack Obama, the "great uniter" of America, has used his "qualified to be President" good judgement and resigned from his twenty year membership at one of Chicago's premier South Side churches, Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago. The $64,000 question is, why didn't he exercise this "good judgement" 10 years ago, 15 years ago, or 19 years, 364 days ago? Ostensibly the decisions to resign from Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago and denounce his twenty year Pastor and spiritual advisor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright were politically motivated. In all probability Senator Obama's long time membership at Trinity United Church Of Christ In Chicago, was politically motivated, for the then young Harvard graduated lawyer trying to blend in with the politics of Chicago's South side. I am sure now Obama, the "great uniter" of America will join a mixed race church where the pastor keeps divisive politics and cursing from his pulpit on Sunday morning. Another example of the politically motivated "good judgement" of Barack Obama, potentially the next President of these United States.
It appears Father Michael Pfleger and OBH are close.
The more Americans learn about Barack Obama, the more they will discern he
is a radical far left and socialistic liberal. Voters have failed to see
this in the Dem primaries but it will become more obvious in the general
election, in my opinion.
So, Obama can't do the right thing without first being shown how he gains a
political advantage from it. Is that so bad? We have elected lots of
politicians who don't find this out until after they are elected!
Johne37179, I appreciate your comment. The point of the post is to
establish that Obama is no "messiah" or a radical "agent of change". My
major criticism of Barack Obama is that he is "politics as usual". If left
unchecked his administration will be a far left liberal and socialistic
one. I am now however a critical supporter of Barack Obama for President in
'08.
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