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    WASHINGTON – Senator Barack Obama is ending his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he has belonged to for about two decades and one that had become a lightening rod in his Democratic presidential bid.

    Mr. Obama informed his campaign advisers of his decision today, according to people familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the candidate. Mr. Obama is scheduled to explain his decision tonight in South Dakota.

    For Mr. Obama, this is the latest effort to distance himself from a church that had repeatedly drawn negative attention to his candidacy. And, in turn, Mr. Obama drew negative attention to the church on Chicago’s South Side, where he was married and his two daughters were baptized.

    Last month, Mr. Obama forcefully broke with his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., after a series of incendiary remarks he made about the United States government. This week, Mr. Obama found himself responding once again to a sermon delivered from the pulpit of Trinity, when a Catholic priest and a longtime friend of Mr. Obama was captured on video last Sunday mocking Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    Mr. Obama, as he prepares for a general election campaign against Senator John McCain, was seeking to put the controversy over his church behind him. It remains an open question whether this move will do that or will simply draw more attention to his decision to be a member of the church for two decades.
    I'm consitently stupid- Japher
    I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

  • #2
    Good timing
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    • #3
      You have to admire a man who, after only two decades, realises the error of his ways and acts so swiftly to try and make things right.

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      • #4
        Very telling of an Obama administration. Stay the course until somebody practically hits you over the head with the truth. So Tel Aviv will be smoldering radioactive rubble when Obama finally acts against the Iranian nuclear threat.
        "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."--Victor Hugo

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        • #5
          He didn't technically quit, he just went up and said "LATERS"
          "Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
          "At least there were some thoughts went into Apocalypse." - Urban Ranger
          "Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
          "In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd

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          • #6
            I think it has more to do with a couple of pastors using Obama campaign for their personal soapbox.
            I'm consitently stupid- Japher
            I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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            • #7
              What an Oreo.
              Only feebs vote.

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              • #8
                So is he a heathen now?
                Blah

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                • #9
                  The only thing that could redeem Obama in my eyes is if he is elected and his first words to the cameras upon entering the White House are: "Where the white women at?"
                  Only feebs vote.

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                  • #10
                    I didn'y realize you had such a high opinion of US blacks, aggy.
                    I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                    I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                    • #11
                      He's a card-carrying Ku Klux Klan member.
                      A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                      • #12
                        It's a thing for New Zealand peoples.

                        JM
                        Jon Miller-
                        I AM.CANADIAN
                        GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Theben
                          I didn'y realize you had such a high opinion of US blacks, aggy.
                          You idiot.

                          Only feebs vote.

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                          • #14
                            Obama has shown us the way, Catholics can now quit the Church for enabling pedophiles

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                            • #15
                              Was he actually attending the church? Or was it the church he 'wasn't' attending?
                              "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier

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