The White House denied Time's Monday report that the Obamas have ended a search for a church home in the nation's capital. Here's Politico:
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama continues "to look for a church home," and said a magazine report that he has stopped is erroneous.
White House deputy press secretary Jen Psaki said by e-mail: "The president and first family continue to look for a church home. They have enjoyed worshiping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family."
The Obamas haven't faced much questioning from the White House press corps about when they're going to make a church decision. With most presidents, this might not be a big deal, but the establishment media's reluctance surely reflects its sensitivity to Obama's political problems with choosing radical, ranting Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago and staying in his church for 20 years.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs, like Psaki wasn't very direct about precisely when the Obamas might stop shopping and start attending, so Time's Amy Sullivan is standing by her story, since "nothing in the statement contradicts my reporting." But what the White House is contradicting is any sense of finality. They seem to want to keep the question persistently open and unanswered.
If the White House had wanted to call into question my reporting, it certainly could have. The reason it didn't is that the plan for the foreseeable future is for the First Family to attend services at the nondenominational Evergreen Chapel when they're at Camp David. It's not a membership congregation, so as Robert Gibbs carefully noted in this afternoon's briefing, they won't be "joining" the chapel. The Obamas have not ruled out becoming members of another church down the road — what churchgoer would? — but neither are there any plans for them to pursue that option right now.
For the Obamas and for Sullivan, the question is this: if they wanted to claim the First Family was going to charm the evangelicals with their piety, do they think this game of kicking the can is impressive? Or doesn't it begin to signal insincerity?
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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They have enjoyed
June 30, 2009 - 06:46 ET by motherbeltThey have enjoyed worshiping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, (emphasis added)
So they've been going to church all this time, at different churches, and no one knew it? Word never got out which churches they showed up at? They kept it a secret?
Yeah, right.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
How sick is it when you have to lie about attending church?
June 30, 2009 - 07:30 ET by SickofLibsLike them taking the show on the road to attend services wouldn't be front page news everywhere.
Nice to know Obama has so much free time he can manage to go golfing four Sundays in a row, though.
B.S. Artist
June 30, 2009 - 06:54 ET by jdlybrandObama saying he was not aware of Wright's rants, although he went to church there for tewnty years; is like saying you watched a porn movie and never saw any naked people. He makes lying an art form.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
June 30, 2009 - 07:03 ET by DanoO can't find a church similar to his old one in Chicago. He tried to get Rev. Jeremiah Wright to move to D.C., but Wright doesn't want to leave his new 10 million dollar house!
O, since he has become
June 30, 2009 - 07:13 ET by MidAmericaO, since he has become the anointed one, is probably not able to just sit in a pew and listen to someone else lecture him.
Good point
June 30, 2009 - 10:17 ET by StarAZIt's his self-appointed job to lecture US now.
If the truth be known...
June 30, 2009 - 07:15 ET by ApodicticObeyme has probably ordered the construction of a chapel and shrine to himself in the White House.
obama's church affiliations
June 30, 2009 - 07:22 ET by trhugMaybe Wright can establish a DC congregation just for the elect. I assume that the Pres's leanings haven't changed. "By their fuits shall ye know them". I must cease as I just ran out of sane thoughts------
Church Membership
June 30, 2009 - 07:33 ET by dmntd1Ya know, I go to a rather progressive church (in some manners, conservative in others...), and while anyone is welcome to attend, you must apply and be approved for membership.
I'm not sure if Obama would pass the membership approval. I'm not sure if I would continue attending if he did.
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,
Remember This Story!
June 30, 2009 - 08:38 ET by GothampcI want everyone to remember this story. You will notice that it is not Evangelical Christians that are raising the issue about where the Obamas go to church. You do not see one televangelist talking about it. BUT, the media will eventually spin the story that the Evangelicals were pushing the Obamas to choose a church.
Perhaps all the mosques in DC are closed for remodeling
June 30, 2009 - 09:00 ET by R D Helm-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
Where a man and his family
June 30, 2009 - 09:06 ET by Dan The Man 2Where a man and his family go to church or if they go at all is pure hogwash. Actualy if Duh One wanted to have him and his family worship alone it is a "church". The Bible says a church is wherever 2 or more are gathered in His name (or something to that effect). Duh One should come clean and just state the applicable verse and be done with it.
I still think Obama is less
June 30, 2009 - 09:14 ET by taterI still think Obama is less of a Muslim and more of an atheist.
www.theholyrosary.org
"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia
??
June 30, 2009 - 11:27 ET by USAnumber1who cares if he's a muslim OR an atheist?
I'm not sure that I care,
July 1, 2009 - 10:30 ET by TimothyZI'm not sure that I care, nor would I be surprised in any case. But he did say he was a Christian. You might be cynical enough not to worry if your politicians start lying, but that's asking for it.
I thought
June 30, 2009 - 09:28 ET by StarAZIsn't it general knowledge that he went to the Wright church to get an in with the black establishment in Chicago--now, mission accomplished...
Oblahma is a pantheist
June 30, 2009 - 10:17 ET by sevenHe is with Oprah. All roads lead to unity and god. It is sincereity that matters.
I don't see Repentence and remission of sins in Oblahma's conversation.
David said, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ..but his delight is in the law of the LORD.
Oblahma is the opposite of King david in Psalms 1.
Church shopping...
June 30, 2009 - 11:18 ET by PrairieSky"They have enjoyed worshiping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family."
And I'll bet that this "time" will just happen to amazingly coincide with the beginning of Obama's re-election campaign...(or when he finds himself in some type of big political trouble...whichever comes first.)
This whole "searching for a home church" crap is a load of BS...I could be mistaken, but wasn't Easter the last time the Obama's went to church?
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
Yeah...
June 30, 2009 - 12:10 ET by StarAZSaving church for when the dog no longer works.
Star...Yeah...the dog, or...
June 30, 2009 - 13:46 ET by PrairieSkychurch, or the cute daughters, or Michelle's toned arms, or "The One's" supposed mesmerizing speaking skills...Sooner or later (hopefully), none of "O's" schtick will work anymore, and it will finally become apparent to everyone, that this emperor never had any clothes...
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
It's hard to find
June 30, 2009 - 11:58 ET by RD Kinga rev wrong that's GDing America in every city in the US, but they could fly back to Chicago every Sunday and make us pay for that since he makes no bones about his outrageous spending even though he has put 10%(soon to be 15%, maybe 30% if c&t passes the senate) of the country out of work, thats your hope and change, we use to call it poverty and we use to call POS like him enemies, I still do.
Keep bamslamming the bamster until he is gone.
Obama going to church
June 30, 2009 - 14:15 ET by wingnut55He has been in Washington for how many years as a senator and he can't find a Church? That is kind of hard to believe.
slack
July 1, 2009 - 04:28 ET by m1xramCome on, cut the guy some slack. You Google Map ' wash dc "black liberation theology" church ' and see how many hits you get. Google only returned one bogus hit for a black supremacy church.
He has already failed... his country.