The Audacity of the Media’s Coverage of Obama’s Church

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Illinois Democrat Senator Barrack Hussein Obama is, of course, the Media Darling for President this next go ‘round, at least du jour and for the moment.

After six months (years?) of their extended coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton, they chose to depose her after but one loss -- in Iowa, the Ethanol State.

The Queen is dead, long live the King.

Having won the Iowa caucuses, and having placed second in the New Hampshire primary, Obama is unquestionably a Top Two contender for the Democrat nomination, and is the media's new Donkey heartthrob.

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He is a man of inordinately limited experience, but that by no means serves to dampen the enthusiasm and in fact could not matter less to the Jurassic Press charged with providing the information We the People are to use in doing the choosing.

He is, however, a man of much ballyhooed heritage, being the progeny of a black Kenyan father and an Irish mother. Lacking a substantive political past, it appears the Media has chosen to instead focus on his biological one.

Obama is undoubtedly more than happy for the distraction. Though he repeatedly proffers at the inception of his stump speeches, in an attempt at immodest diffusion, that "(t)here is a certain audacity" to his candidacy given his but two year tenure at the Washington trough, anything that serves to divert us from his extraordinarily limited resume, undistinguished in its utterly conventional Liberalism, is just fine by him.

Obama, of course, pretends to be exhausted by the subject, rolling his eyes and sighing as if to say, in Rodney King fashion, "Can we not all just get past this?". But being a rank and file Leftist, Obama actually loves and can not help wading into the racial waters whenever afforded the opportunity, as he was again by Steve Kroft on February 11th 2006's 60 Minutes.

Steve Kroft: "Your mother was white; your father was African. You were raised in a white household. Yet at some point you decided you were black."

Obama: I'm not sure I decided it. Uh, I think, uh, you know, if you - if you look African-American in this society, you're treated as an African-American, uh, and, uh, when you're a child in particular, uh, that is how you begin to identify yourself.

So Obama is not the Decider, even on something as individual and personal, not to mention realistically irrelevant, as his melanin-based classification.

Once this assessment was made for him, however, Obama had no problem settling right in to the racial identity mindset that in no small part led him to the Democrat Party once his fancy late in life lightly turned to politics.

It also must have led him to choose the church he attends when back in his home state. The Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago is certainly not shy about expressing its immense pride in something over which they had no control; that being its assemblage's skin color.

It revels in it, and from all appearances it is race, rather than God and His worship, for and about which this congregation has been convened.

It exhibits that for some Liberals, even God is of secondary import to ideology, racial or otherwise. It exhibits that for the media, highly questionable matters in a Democrat's life are unworthy of questioning.

Remember this the next time a member of the press excoriates Republican candidate Mitt Romney for the Mormon Church's less than stellar past with respect to race. Obama's house of worship's racial deficiencies exist in the here and now, and remain heretofore unexamined.

So we shall. From Trinity United's About Us page:

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian...

Please note that "Black" comes before "Christian".

Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent.

We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.

We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

(1) Commitment to God

At least He comes first here.

(2) Commitment to the Black Community

(3) Commitment to the Black Family ...

(6) Adherence to the Black Work Ethic

(8) Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"

Leftism as punctuated by fabricated words to represent fraudulent issues.

(9) Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community

(10) Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions

The tithe, reconfigured and reconstituted for Liberalism and the New Black Age.

(11) Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System

Does this mean Obama? Does he "espouse and embrace the Black Value System"? Should we even be considering for the Presidency someone who does?

(12) Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.

The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:

(3) A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.

Code word for "reparations", per chance?

(4) A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.

Who says multiculturalism is divisive?

(7) A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.

(8) A congregation committed to LIBERATION.

"Liberation" from what, exactly? Could this mean ridding oneself of the yoke of American freedom and prosperity for a return to the Mother Continent, for the most part rife with poverty and ruled by thugs?

(10) A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

This is a comprehensive website for a wide-ranging liberal and Black agenda church, and there is very much more to be mined therefrom. The many other electronic offerings are all variations on this theme.

The selection of one's place of worship is a very personal, and sometimes painstaking, decision, and it is by no means my intention, or anyone's proper place, to question the nature of someone's faith.

But it is certainly fair to say that the purpose of religion is to transcend, and gird us against, the petty difficulties and differences of this world and unite us all in a devotion to something higher than ourselves. Faith is not to be used to ensconce this earthly divisiveness in pseudo-sacrosanct dictum, and twisted into just another wedge item to further one's secular political or racial causes.

This is exactly on what the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been dining for decades. Trinity United, with lesser fanfare but no less success, has done the very same thing. And Obama proudly proclaims himself a member of this political congregation guised as hallowed gathering.

A commitment to Unashamed Blackness, remain true to (his) native land (that would be Africa, as per Trinity United parlance) and the embrace of the Black Value System certainly seems to stand in diametric opposition to Obama's potential upcoming oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and his doing his very best to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Our prohibition on the Presidency for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has chosen fidelity to the United States but whose loyalties are called into question merely by the matter of his place of birth, could reasonably be extended to Obama, who had the good fortune to be born in America, but who chooses to pledge allegiance elsewhere as an article of faith.

All of these are questions worth asking. So why are the media not?

—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center and Contributing Editor for NewsBusters.org.


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It's about time!!

Thank you Mr. Motley for finally bringing this to light. Not to blow my own whistle, but I have brought up Obama's church (particularly its Afrocentricity and loyalty to Africa, and the "black values" system, whatever that is) a couple of times in comments.

The MSM have been notoriously lax and uninterested in this, at the same time that they are examining Mitt Romney's Mormonism and Mike Huckabee's Baptist beliefs.

It's time, and past time that Obama's church is subject to the same scrutiny.

It's time, and past time

It's time, and past time that Obama's church is subject to the same scrutiny.

Could not agree more mb...the hypocrisy in all of this with the msm of all venues is off the charts IMO.

Yep this is a pledge I

Yep this is a pledge I could stand behind, kinda stands out when substitutions ar made. 

1) Commitment to God

(2) Commitment to the White Community

(3) Commitment to the White Family

(6) Adherence to the White Work Ethic

(8) Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"

(9) Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community  

(10) Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions

(11) Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System

(12) Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Dan...???

Haven't you learned by now that bigotry and prejudice is a one-way street that only whitey rides?

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

dan -- Well when you put it

dan -- Well when you put it like that, sounds kinda "racist."

It's amazing no one in the MSM has picked this up.

Oh hang on, I must be smoking something to have said that.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Dan the Man 2

Great post....definitely puts things in perspective.

This has to be exposed

Obama went to a church and idolized a "reverend" that are more racist than relgious. If he were offended by racism and hate speech, why? The answer would be so obvious if he were white and it would be a consensus in the msm.

This has to be exposed?

This has to be exposed? Give me a break. Are you aware that "Black Churches" which explicitly prioritize the Black Community predate Barack Obama by decades? Back when casual racism was legally sanctioned, it was necessary for black communities to organize and one thing that developed out of that was...oh good God, they would get together to pray! Generally, white people can attend their services if they wish. They don't go out at night and beat up non-blacks. This is not racism, it's maintenance of a tradition that a person who's never been marginalized because of skin color probably wouldn't understand.

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors."
-Emily Bronte

I had no idea! Thanks for

I had no idea! Thanks for revealing this.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

No problem. "He was, and

No problem.

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors."
-Emily Bronte

Alrighty then

Of course I know this church isn't unique and in many ways is traditional. But keep all that 'you wouldn't understand' nonsense. A lot, if not all, people have suffered in history at some point. Do you know how the Rev. Wright feels about jews? What about their history? Read his words and imagine this coming from a white church. http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/Obama_Church_Racism/2008/01/07/62285.html

http://www.tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_jan21.pdf

 You know damn well it would be called racism.

OK fine. But since you

OK fine. But since you brought up the Jews, is it equally unreasonable that a Jewish organization take the stance of prioritizing Jewish people and causes? I would say "Of course not."

As to Rev. Wright's particular ideologies, I'm just not willing to apply that to Obama. Just as I refused to get caught up in the finger-pointing about Romney, I don't think religious affiliation matters at all unless it's being explicitly invoked as a justification/impetus for policy decisions.

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors."
-Emily Bronte

Jason...???

Being Jewish is not the same as being black.

[Sammy Davis Jr. was both.]

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

LionKing? So? The point

LionKing?

So? The point is that in both scenarios there is a certain degree of cultural insularity in one aspect (worship and fellowship) of their life. Should I cry racism when someone with Irish roots displays their pride on St. Patrick's Day over a room-temperature Guiness?

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors."
-Emily Bronte

Exactly what

Exactly what is/are:

  • Black Family
  • Black Work Ethic
  • Black Value System?

I thought there was either a positive or a negative version of these entities, not a racial division to be parsed out.

How does one do RECONCILIATION and with whom when it's exclusively about all things Black?

What exactly entails the non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA?  Where exactly does America fit in with your system? 

What exactly does LIBERATION mean?  Is this something in the mother land?   Where does America fit in if it is not your mother land?

The segregationist, bigoted, inflammatory, separatist, hateful, angry, myopic message of the "Christian Church" is akin to the failed Liberian emmigration policy floated during Abraham Lincoln's days.  It is akin to the anarchistic Black National messages of the 1960's and 1970's.  It fouls the mind and furthers division. 

It is a doomed policy today because it relies on a rascist separation of people instead of unifying all people under common goals, ethics and morals.

The stated policies of theis "Church" are but one step away from being a mirror image of the KKK.  All that's missing are the violent and terrorizing methodologies used by the KKK - Cross burning, lynchings, psychological and physical intimidation/abuse.

That BO is a member and a personal friend to the leader of this "Church" speaks volumes as to his character.  Why Liberals do not register the insidious, or at least questionable, aspects of BO's history, thoughts and behaviours is a great mystery to me. 

Where exactly do BO's allegiances lie?

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Obama has purple lips!

Lipstick?

When Romney's faith came

When Romney's faith came into question I seem to remember many here jumping to his defense.  Does the Mormon church accept African Americans?  They do now, but there was a time it was exclusively a white man's church.  I remember when JFK's religion came into question.  How about Huckabee?  I'm not sure I want someone in the White House who believes the planet is only 6,000 years old.  If they believe that, I'd say they have a very high gulliblility factor.  On the other hand,  whatever happened to the separation between church and state? Ultimately, a candidate's faith should have no bearing at all provided it doesn't carry over into their political beliefs.  Let's take a moment and read the constitution for a change.

Let's take a moment and read the constitution for a change.

Maybe you should take your own advise!

First: be be president you must:

Article Two of the Constitution sets the qualifications required to become president. Presidents must be:

natural-born citizens
at least thirty-five years old
must have been resident in the United States for at least fourteen years

Second: there is no "separation between church and state" in the Constitution...show me if you can.

v

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Thomas Jefferson

Article 6?

Isn't that Article 6?

"no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

Isn't that Article 6?

...in regards to what?

v

regards

in regards to "any office or public trust under the United States"

  "Congress shall make no

  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"

-the Second Amendment

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state".   -Thomas Jefferson

Your point being...

Gold....the second amendment

Gold....the second amendment is not a quote from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. This quote is not included in the Constitution, this quote come from a letter written to the Danbury Baptist Assn. written in 1802.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

The point is that government

The point is that government has no business "establishing" nor "prohibiting" any ones religious beliefs. It has NOTHING to do with "religious" people in government, at all.

To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.

v

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Thomas Jefferson

"Congress shall make no law

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"

-the Second Amendment -goldbar

 

Might want to take your own advice and "read the constitution for a change":

The second amendment reads:

Amendment II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I know it was a simple error, but when you're instructing everyone else on the Constitution, it pays to be accurate.

 

MB, me thinks goldbar

MB, me thinks goldbar should consider changing that name to "Leadbar".  

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Looking for Mr Goldbar.

Looking for Mr Goldbar.

I SECOND that Amendment!

Funniest catch for ages!

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Ultimately, a candidate's

Ultimately, a candidate's faith should have no bearing at all provided it doesn't carry over into their political beliefs.

You're kidding, right? From whose ass did you pull that farrago of ignorance?

Have you the faintest conception about the founding principles of the United States of America?

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Jack, it's not their fault...guvmint skuls to blame...

Jack, it's not their fault...it's not taught that way in guvment skuls no mor.

v

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Thomas Jefferson

vrvc -- I'm sure Global

vrvc -- I'm sure Global Warming (sic) has something to do with it as well.

Whatever you do, don't let your "faith" inform your politics, else you'll be barred from running for public office. It's in the constitution, somewhere.

Well thats wot I wuz told.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Whatever you do, don't let your "faith" inform your politics

Huck's in trouble then...

"Faith doesn't just influence me. It really defines me. I don't have to wake up every day wondering what do I need to believe," Huckabee says in the ad. "Let us never sacrifice our principles for anybody's politics. Not now, not ever."

v

As far as I can tell, it's

As far as I can tell, it's mostly secular liberals swooning over Huckabee. Liberals adore Huckabee because he fits their image of what an evangelical should be: stupid and easily led.

Have you the faintest

Have you the faintest conception about the founding principles of the United States of America?

The answer is a resounding, NO!  

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Ultimately, a candidate's

Ultimately, a candidate's faith should have no bearing at all provided it doesn't carry over into their political beliefs.

That's only for Republicans. Democrats are allowed to make political decisions based on their religious beliefs,  use the gospels to justify income redistribution, call universal health care "Cristian health care" etc. etc. ad nauseam.

<sarc off>

Yes Obama goes to a nutbag

Yes Obama goes to a nutbag church, I'll be the first one to say so. Not because of their love for Africa but principally because of the false doctrine they teach as it relates to Baptism and reception of the Holy Ghost. Most of you know my teaching on that. However, nothing could be plainer that it IS a false church than their veiled HATRED OF WHITES. If you read just a smattering of writings from his so-called pastor it sounds like it was written by a friggin' BLACK PANTHER! LOL. Jesus said "by their fruits ye shall know them", he said this in reference to "false churches and false prophets". The fruit of this church seems to be a disdain for all things "non-black" and that my friends, is OUTSIDE THE WILL OF GOD. NO Christian church could EVER teach you to hate White people and remain within the will of Christ. For he says in truth...

1 John 4:19-21 (King James Version)

  19. We love him, because he first loved us.

 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Jesus made no bones about the fact that we are all brothers in Matthew when he told them in Matthew 23:8,9

 8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

 9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Usually these scriptures are used to show the blasphemy that the Catholic church forces on it's parishioners by having them call priest's "Father". But clearly if ONE is our Father and we are ALL brethren, then Obama's church is outside of the will of God in it's attitudes towards Whites. 

That said. I take issue with these false assertions Mr Motley,

"So Obama is not the Decider, even on something as individual and personal, not to mention realistically irrelevant, as his melanin-based classification.

Once this assessment was made for him, however, Obama had no problem settling right in to the racial identity mindset that in no small part led him to the Democrat Party once his fancy late in life lightly turned to politics."

You have no idea what the heck you're talking about here. And it really pisses me off that you're making me defend as man that I really don't care for. 

As a child my first brush with racism came at the hands of a stupid old white woman who was manning the counter at a candy store in a Jewish neighborhood. I grew up attending elite schools which were probably 99% white. I was the only black in my class for grades 1-6. My only friends were Jewish kids named Vance Goldstein, Heath Levine, Jimmy Goldberg ( my very bestest friend!) and Steve Shapiro. We were trekkies and attended all of the star trek conventions together. Our parents even encouraged us to spend weekends together at each other's homes. There was this special candy, "Rock Candy" which was a confectionary delight not sold in my neighborhood as we had the "Pop Rocks", remember those? I used to give Jimmy money to secure the prized candy for me, but on one occasion, after spending the weekend at his home, he suggested that we race to the candy store for Rock candy, before my mom came to pick me up. After getting the candy and standing in line, the cashier, a withered old crone with a cigarette dangling from her mouth, asked with a sneering disdainful demeanor, just who this, that my friends had with them,  ( i was the, "THIS"). Jimmy piped up, "This is Keith he's our brother!" To which, the old lady said, with hatred dripping from every syllable, "Well then he must be the damned BLACK SHEEP of the family". As I look at these words on paper all these many years later, they don't seem all that bad. I guess you had to be there. Stevie Shapiro started to cry, Jimmy threw the candy at her and tried to pull me out of the store. I just stood there stunned. I can't tell you how me and these Jewish kids never realized that there was a "difference" between us, but we didn't. Even now re-reading that sentence that I just wrote makes my eyes water. I didn't know that there was anything wrong with being black until that day. My entire world changed that one singular day. No, I didn't become a militant, I was like EIGHT! LOL. And the guys remained MY GUYS all the way  through High School even after Jimmy's parents moved from Queens to Miami, in Junior High. Academic pursuits and GIRLS pulled us away from each other not the filth of this world, thank God. But to say that a child as young as Barack was, had the ability to DECIDE TO BE WHITE when his skin is clearly dark brown, is the height of absurdity and frankly, beneath you and this great blog. You haven't a clue as to what you're talking about on that point sir. Your identity does begin as a child and is shaped in majority by those around you.  I had friends who like Barack were bi-racial and for their PROTECTION their WHITE mothers insisted that they identify as black as white society would not accept them. Their mothers sought to prevent them from the kind of harm I found in that candy store that day. For God's sake, MLK wasn't even dead yet! What the heck are you talking about?  I even knew one girl, older than me named Eva whose parents were a very light skinned black man and a white mother. She was BEAUTIFUL and if you didn't know her father was black you would have thought she was just a normal white girl blessed with extraordinary beauty. She chose to identify with the white side of her heritage, something I probably would have done as well if I looked like her! She made it all the way to college until this "deception" was discovered by someone, I was too young to know all the details. I do remember that she became suicidal and had to be hospitalized when all of her white friends abandoned her. This was in the late sixties, early seventies about the same time that Barack was growing up. Again, you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about on that point. While I dislike Obama because of his penchant for murdering the babies that survive abortions, he has been notoriously forgiving of those who seek to play the race card around him and has never engaged in such himself. Did you forget the way he championed Joe Biden, resident IDIOT with FOOT IN MOUTH disease? How he said that no matter how offensive Biden's words might have seemed he knew both Biden's record on civil rights and his heart, as it related to blacks? Statements that I agree with by the way. You do this man a disservice when you seek to liken him to race hustlers like Al Sharpton.  Whatever he is, he isn't that. 

Keith, of what I have seen

Keith, of what I have seen of your postings you seem to have a split personality.  The first one I read seemed it came directly from as you say "the Black Pathers", and some of the subsequent ones also.  Perhaps you in that post had a bad day and was venting.  This post humanizes you and I really liked it.  Reminded me of teh character Godfrey ?? played in the Presidents Analyst revealed the first time he realized he was black.

But, I think Obama is playing the race card when he overeacts.  I personally think the man is going to be the Dim canditate and he has a great charisma and crossover appeal.  To be candid he seems like what I used to hear called an Oreo, which is probably the only way America would elect a black man.

The LA Times had it right when they said he was the Magic Negro.

BTW I am not bigoted, at least no more than anyone else, and voted for Jesse Jackson and when I got some sense Alan Keyes.  I like Alan but he is not electable.

But I enjoyed your story, it was a warm fuzzy.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

The only thing I'm

The only thing I'm "militant" on Dan is the strict observance of the Apostle's Doctrine of water baptism in Jesus name and in dwelling of the Holy Ghost with the same evidence provided same Apostles. You may have come in on the tail end of an argument where I was chastising some of the reflexive "race deniers" who act like this was a fair country for years but we all just missed it. That said, Happy New Year and I hope you're well.

Obama a Christian?

I challenge anyone to prove to me that Obama was baptized a Christian. The story of Obama's "conversion." Obama walked down the aisle of Trinity Church to make a formal commitment of his faith. However, Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, warns us that Obama’s walking the aisle at Trinity is poles apart from what Christians commonly refer to as being "saved, transformed or washed in the blood." In other words, it’s not to be confused with what Jesus called being "born again." As Mr. Obama himself explains, "It wasn’t an epiphany…but just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me." The Obama File: http://www.freedomse...

Why does this matter? "He

Why does this matter?

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors."
-Emily Bronte

It matters because all of

It matters because all of the little lost sheep need to know which sheppard to follow because none of them can think for themselves.

FINALLY someone who GETS

FINALLY someone who GETS IT!!!! JOHN 3:1-8! BABY!