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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Himself, his words of change and hope. His record to date does not reflect his ideals. They are fine sentiments, but his actions are yet to match his rhetoric. Perhaps history will prove differently. He is not a unifier in the senate where he maintains status as the most liberal US senator (by activity and voting record). He still attends a black separatist values church from where he proclaims the racially bigoted pastor to be his inspiration and mentor (look those up in the dictionary). Hardly presidential for all Americans, except for the far left activist types with white guilt (if you're white).
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How does Oprah manage to be a member of the very same church, yet not get "tarred", even one iota, as you are tarring Obama?
Why are blacks asked, ad infinitum, to justify what other blacks say and do, when the press would never contemplate asking the same thing of whites, in regard to the speech and action of other whites?
You and like minded people do not grasp how ridiculous and petty your "Op" makes you look...you've been carrying on with this stupid bullshit for at least 54 weeks..... please stop NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us...gin&oref=login
Disinvitation by Obama Is Criticized
By JODI KANTOR
<h2>Published: March 6, 2007</h2>
....“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites. .....
...Instead, Mr. Obama asked Mr. Wright’s successor as pastor at Trinity, the Rev. Otis Moss III, to speak. Mr. Moss declined.
In recent weeks, word of Mr. Obama’s treatment of Mr. Wright has reached black leaders like the Rev. Al Sharpton and given them pause.
“I have not discussed this with Senator Obama in detail, but I can see why callers of mine and other clergymen would be concerned, because the issue is standing by your own pastor,” Mr. Sharpton said.
Mr. Wright’s church, the 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ, is considered mainstream — Oprah Winfrey has attended services, and many members are prominent black professionals. But the church is also more Afrocentric and politically active than standard black congregations.
Mr. Wright helped organize the 1995 Million Man March on Washington and along with other United Church of Christ ministers was one of the first black religious leaders to protest apartheid and welcome gay and lesbian worshippers.
Since Mr. Obama made his presidential ambitions clear, <h3>conservatives have drawn attention to his close relationship to Mr. Wright and to the church’s emphasis on black empowerment. Tucker Carlson of MSNBC called the precepts “racially exclusive” and “wrong.” Last week, on the Fox News program “Hannity & Colmes,” Erik Rush</h3>, a conservative columnist, called the church “quite cultish, quite separatist.”
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection....
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