Flip-flopping started here by Obama

Obama talks about the recent attacks on his campaign by Hillary-supporting media. All Obama's pastor say is common sense.
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Trinity United Church of Christ, to the media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's more inflammatory comments.

"AN ATTACK ON OUR SENIOR PASTOR AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH":
Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.
"Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright's ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite," said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.
During the 36-year pastorate of Dr. Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ has grown from 87 to 8,000 members. It is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
"It saddens me to see news stories reporting such a caricature of a congregation that has been such a blessing to the UCC's Wider Church mission," said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, in a released statement. " ... It's time for us to say 'No' to these attacks and declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends."
Trinity United Church of Christ's ministry is inclusive and global. The following ministries have been developed under Dr. Wright's ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.
Moss added, "The African American Church was born out of the crucible of slavery and the legacy of prophetic African American preachers since slavery has been and continues to heal broken marginalized victims of social and economic injustices. This is an attack on the legacy of the African American Church which led and continues to lead the fight for human rights in America and around the world."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, "love thy neighbor as thyself." Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he preached, "The 11 o'clock hour is the most segregated hour in America." Forty years later, the African American Church community continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers' characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most segregated hour in America.

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[Walkerboy88]

We lived 8 years under a liar that took into an bogus war,rang up a fat deficit after Clinton left office with a SURPLUS,and after 8 months YOU got this Obama dude figured out. Get over it already.HE won. HE IS the President of the United States of America. While the rest of the world has converted to the metric system,we're still lagging behind by "ft." and Yds.".Just admit that you feel the president should be a white man,OR woman..and a black man doesn't have the capacity to be president.

[aakozanoglu]

A black man or a white man or a yellow woman or a brown in between, does not matter as long as s/he has self-respect, as long as s/he does not have inferiority complex, as long as s/he puts the interest of people who elected him/her to the top, as long as s/he does not become one of them.You say he won. What has he done differently than Bush?Today is the anniversary of his victory.Has anything changed?

[722marine]

Such a liar.

[nineballssj9]

yep you are right

[Margo2020ify]

Every leader who is trying to make great changes in a country or the world should have all parties working together to fulfill that great changes especially if all parties are for the people. To me if each party, winners or losers are saying that they are for the people.Why not work with the person who won instead of causing problems. What we all should do to prevent problems is to check

ourselves and our families bad behaviours and see if we can solve them. Can we? so why judge another.

[phantomcharger]

@Walkerboy88

Presidents doesn’t spend money, the congress does, while Billy was in office, the republicans ran the house, any balance budget would of come from them, not Billy boy.

You can’t give budget success to any president, congress and senate.

[vdvsoldat]

AMEN. GOD (PLEASE) DAMN AMERICA. A chemically guilded, lazy, well armed and too chickenshit to FIGHT militia, governed by completly unconstitutional traitors.

[AbjectConformity]

I vote to expunge the word "freedom" from the Mariam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries... the word doesn't exist in real life anymore.

It should only be used as slang in retrospective poetry.

Actually, I think you should be imprisoned indefinitely for uttering the word "freedom" from here on out.

Thank you.

[ceomeye]

GOD, BLESS AMERICA FOR ALL THE STOLEN LANDS AND THE HYPOCRISY OF AMERICAN HISTORY!! GOD, BLESS AMERICA FOR ALL FREE EXPRESSIONS OF RELIGION, YET RACISM AND 2 MILLION MINIORITIES LIVE IN PRISON....GOD BLESS AMERICA, YES, BLESS AMERICA...HAHAHAHAH

SUCH NIGHTMARE!!! paranoid america, fearful america, freedom based on lies.....

[ceomeye]

God bless america in the pursuit of lies, blind freedom, and where they consider the dollar part of god, with god, and in the pursuit of dollar god!!! God Bless america for the brainwashing european racist history. God bless america for the KKK, God Bless America for poisoning the air, water, lands, and food supplies. God Bless America, BLESS ALL THE LIES!!!