LOL....what explanation can even remotely justify staying at that church that had his pastor, his mentor, his spiritual advisor, with guest preachers like Pfleger, spewing rhetoric for 20+years, that he was so supposedly opposed to, and only now coming to a realization of how polarizing it is??
Lemme help you out......there is none. Or is he that much of an ignorant moron.
Lemme help you out, I think he should have never gone to a church to begin with but that's neither here nor there.
I think you guys are just all about outraged over this church thing because you know that it reflects badly on ALL evangelicals and all the crazy things they say from the pulpit.
You righties like to say that there is a difference between Hagee and Wright, between Falwell and Fleger and McCain and Obama's relationship with each of their respective associations when, in fact, there is but not in the way you like to spin it.
Perhaps over the years, Obama did sit in the pulpit and here similar diatribes from Reverend Wright but over those same years, Obama formed a friendship with Reverend Wright, a relationship with Reverend Wright, worked with and served the community with Reverend Wright. So, when the politically expedient thing was not his response, it made complete sense to me because you don't just throw over someone you've done good work with and been friends with for years because some political operatives are using that relationship as a wedge issue. The point being that Senator Barack Obama was close with Reverend Wright and when his alleged "hate speech" was made an issue, Obama dealt with it in a measured and honorable way respecting their friendship while trying to negate the situation politically.
Conversely, consider John McCain's situation. Pastor Hagee's positions and bizarre statements were common knowledge. Even I had flipped through TBN and caught moments of crazy talk from Hagee as he tried to baffle believers with his bullshit whilst bilking them out of their bread. But John McCain was not close with Hagee. They had not worked together for 20 years to save lives and strengthen their own community. I thought I read or heard that Hagee had married John McCain and his new wife but that may have been a rumor or something I dreamed. The point being that Hagee was out there calling the Catholic Church "a great whore" and saying any number of nutty statements and McCain SOUGHT OUT HIS SUPPORT. McCain went looking for, asking his endorsement. Against his own better judgment, I daresay! I imagine he was following the advice of some political hack who told him he couldn't win without what Jon Stewart once called "crazy base land" (Stewart said that to McCain on the Daily Show).
So, now, after Trinity has a guest speaker who says some particularly silly things (true enough but presented particularly stupidly) who also happens to be friendly with Barack Obama, Obama has now quit the church. Resigned from his own church. Cut off from his friends and neighbors and fellow worshipers because you guys didn't like the way a totally different person whom Obama has absolutely no control over said some stupid shit about Hillary Clinton of all people! Jesus Christ, he bends over backwards to accommodate you guys who don't even like him and won't vote for him anyway.
Have your fun, make your sad, pathetic points and feel good that you have wrecked a family's Sunday morning traditions all to gain a few little brownie points that no one will remember when President Barack Obama is sworn in next January.
