How's that for under-bussing.

Hahahahha

Blah blah blah political expedience blah blah blah. Some things you have to do if you want a shot at the big seat, I guess.

bout time

I'm sure this will stop Republicans from mentioning it over and over again, due primarily to the fact that they can't compete on policy issues.

...and joined Pastor Hagee's church.

See?!?! I knew he was a Moslem, this proves it, he quit church!!!



/You know this will be on fox spun this way.

What a swift, decisive move... wait, what?

Bren_34: img150.imageshack.us

That picture terrifies me.

The Beacon Man: It's too late.

20 years too late.

Who's pandering now?

PwnBama

Two decades too late... a typical politican pandering!

Too late, his racist roots have been exposed.

Vote McCain

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

How noble of him to leave when it becomes politically inconvenient. It's a good thing he left, but it's about 20 years too late.

Damn, son.

Seems a little late to matter, though....Good for him, either way. That place was full of crazy.

GOBAMA.

heathen.

I guess he could disown him.

Day late, $ short.

OK wayyyy off topic

anyone see the 2002 version of Rollerball?

I swear that's Penn Jilette as the English Announcer...but IMdb says no.

/end off topic bullshiat

Who cares? He's going to have trouble attending it with any regularity when he's living in the White House, anyway.

The Rev. Wright is, for lack of, no.....that is the perfect word - CRAZY.

Dude was a political liability to say the least. You just know he has grandiose plans of hobnobbing with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and having revivals in the rose garden.

Hey now, stop that fuss! Everybody get underneath the bus!

He needs to hire that second preacher guy to write his speeches. He was hilarious!

It took him THIS LONG? I thought he'd done that a few months ago

Anything to ignore any actual policy problems O-bomb-a may have, such as not being anti-war, wanting to ban guns, and being in favor of a nanny state.

I'm hoping now he becomes the lead spokesman for Kwanzaa.

guess that means its safe for me to vote for him.

/hard to be sarcastic on the intertubes
//independent...no I have not made my mind up yet, any advice?

He probably thought he had packed it already and left it in the bathroom.

What choice did he have after that stupid video popped up on youtube? I imagine he was quite furious at that ridiculous display from that preacher. I mean, seriously, does that church not understand the concept of youtube and the internets?

Call me crazy, but when a member of your congregation is on the cusp of becomming president, you may have to tone down the rhetoric.

I lol'd

Just him?

Lapel Flag Pin - Check

Leave racist church - Check

Quit Smoking - Check

//So much for sticking to your beliefs..

Headline FAIL

Barack Obama leaves Rev. Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

Fix it. No Clergy member owns a UCC church.

it's because he found a Trinity Christian Church in DC to frequent.

FTW?

Infobahn: Headline FAIL

Barack Obama leaves Rev. Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

Fix it. No Clergy member owns a UCC church.

Well, he may not be leaving that denomination all together... just that one specific church.

keytronic: What choice did he have after that stupid video popped up on youtube? I imagine he was quite furious at that ridiculous display from that preacher. I mean, seriously, does that church not understand the concept of youtube and the internets?

Call me crazy, but when a member of your congregation is on the cusp of becomming president, you may have to tone down the rhetoric.

Why should they? I really don't like the idea of them hiding what is in their hearts just so one of their own can get elected.

Obama is showing how very NOT different he is than any other Chicago politician in the last 60 years.

Obama did community organizing in over a dozen churches in Chicago and during that period in his own words, the older folks would constantly want to know which church he was a member of. He didn't like any of the multitude of of respectable churches in Chicago, and instead chose to attend and rise in the church's social heirarchy in THE most racialist and ignorantly conspiratorial church there in Chicago.

And now he thinks he can bamboozle the country by orchestrating publicity stunts like this. It's an insult to the intelligence of even the mouth breathing morons who only get news from the local network TV news.

This orchestrated distancing from Trinity Church is so amateur hour and sloppy it's an insult to decent and competent political consults the world over.

He went there for couple of decades and gave them tens of thousands of dollars, but now he's noticing that sometimes some objectionable things get said from the pulpit. They must have really toned things down when Obama was in the pews because he never ever heard the hardcore stuff.

It says a lot about Obama that his inner circle of friends and religious figures pretty much stab Obama in the back repeatedly.

The first Wright episode was a "gaffe"... the fact that it keeps coming means these people could care less about Obama and hes been fooled into thinking they care about him.

I dont want a President that can so easily be tricked....imagine what our enemies could do to such a susceptbile leader.

This is not something the Penguin would approve of.

/up shiat creek
//jesus christ

blah blah blah. meh meh meh.

mah fellow murkins! teh turrists will get you! so be skeared!!!!

now watch this drive

duh duh duh. hur hur hur.

/the state of political discourse today...

There's gotta be a way to spin this as a far more serious and important stain on Obama's candidacy.

I'll wait patiently for that spin to arrive.

Nuno311: The first Wright episode was a "gaffe"... the fact that it keeps coming means these people could care less about Obama and hes been fooled into thinking they care about him.

As much as I dislike Obama (mainly his policies), I do feel sorry for him in this regard. Not sympathy enough to vote for him by any means though, for exactly the reason you stated.

I wouldn't want to be affiliated with a bunch of idiots who don't know any better than to keep getting themselves in the news to my detriment either.

Good for Obama. That a check in his column.

I can't say that I'm surprised, but I am disappointed.

Darth Vader: Obi-Wan ... I've quit the Dark Side of the force...

Obi-Wan: Uh, perhaps those folks on Alderan will be thrilled to hear that... oh, snap...!

Now that the Trinity United church has done what Obama needed them for, to springboard him into a position of local importance (which he parlayed into State and then national power) he no longer needs them, and they're getting kicked to the curb. Especially because they're now a political liability.

In other news, the mosque next door welcomes its newest member.

This actually makes me like Obama less.