Obama aide: His decision to leave Trinity was “a deeply personal, not a political decision”
posted at 7:28 pm on June 1, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via the Busters. It’s undoubtedly true — just like his decision to start wearing the flag pin again was personal, just like his decision to take a trip to Iraq and meet with Petraeus was personal, just like his climbdown from unconditional meetings with Iran was personal. The fact that all three coincide with the start of the general election campaign is but a happy whim of chance, much like him suddenly deciding that we needed a national conversation on race at the very moment his relationship with Wright was coming under a microscope. Behold the “new politics,” then: The same old crap with political stunts a-gogo, but adorned with half-hearted nonsense about “principle” and sheepish, shinola-eating grins like the one worn by this idiot. He actually uses the pat phrase “deeply personal” three times in about 60 seconds here, almost as if he’s trying to communicate just how scripted and insincere his talking point is. And why not? The media’s in the tank. Who’s going to call him on it?
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Someone PLEASE investigate his Washington, D.C. church. A friend tells me it is every bit as un-Christian as Trinity, but I have founding nothing online. And it is not a 20-year-old decision, but a 4-year-old one for Obama to attend there.
raybury on June 2, 2008 at 1:00 AM
Monday morning fireworks?
platypus on June 2, 2008 at 1:35 AM
He misspoke. It’s a deeply political decision.
waterfall on June 2, 2008 at 2:09 AM
Suuuuure, and John McCain really cares about illegal immigrants for reasons beyond pandering for Hispanic votes.
whatthehellever.
SuperCool on June 2, 2008 at 2:13 AM
How long & hard do you have to practice to be able to say this kind of stuff with a straight face?
clancy_wiggum on June 2, 2008 at 3:18 AM
Deeply, deeply personal….like his head about four feet up his ass deep.
Spc Steve on June 2, 2008 at 4:18 AM
Ha Ha thud! Oops, I laughed my head off… I hope that was supposed to be funny.
elifino on June 2, 2008 at 6:13 AM
This is a new peak in their belief in the level of our stupidity.
seanrobins on June 2, 2008 at 7:20 AM
Kind of reminds me of a Cinderfella moment!
But who’s looking in the mirror?
jerrytbg on June 2, 2008 at 7:26 AM
riiiiiiiight.
ctmom on June 2, 2008 at 7:37 AM
My own experience is full of coworkers born in the ’80s who say, “I think he’s the JFK of his time” as if they were Lloyd Bentsen and knew JFK personally or something.
To which I just remark that I can’t counter that argument because I wasn’t born until the late ’60s and I have no idea what JFK was like because I hadn’t even started pooping my diapers yet when he was still alive.
The irony is lost on them…too many stars in their eyes or something.
James on June 2, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Forget looking into past tax returns of the candidates and their wives…and the like.
Let’s have a look at their personal libraries at home. I’d be interested in seeing the books that they’ve read over the years. Where do their interests and influences lie?
Someone would have to break into their homes, I guess, so they couldn’t fill their bookshelves with phony reads.
anyway..just a thought
bridgetown on June 2, 2008 at 8:23 AM
I thought Robert Gibbs was a member of the Bee Gees.
radjah shelduck on June 2, 2008 at 8:46 AM
Does it frighten you to see Obamessiah’s people lie so easily?
drjohn on June 2, 2008 at 9:04 AM
I sincerely hope that he and his wife applied for a Debaptism certificate.
Annar on June 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM
No different than the Clintons. In fact, the Clintons are better at it.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 9:40 AM
I thought no one could change their mind faster then Romney…I was wrong.
right2bright on June 2, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Deeply Nuanced.
kirkill on June 2, 2008 at 9:54 AM
When politicians start lying about lies, we get closer to the truth.
volsense on June 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM
That’s awesome, is that your quote?
right2bright on June 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM
I’ll only begin to believe this when we see Obama, his wife, and both daughters immediately and voluntarily committing themselves to several years of racial sensitivity training and re-education.
The problem is that Obama’s and his family have been immersing themselves in “hate whitey” and “black separatism” doctrine for decades. If nothing is done to correct this, that will be proof that this has not been recognized as a “problem” but as a “political impediment”; making this move purely political.
landlines on June 2, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Divorce her and keep on going. Nothing is more important than the Cause, and he is the Cause.
flenser on June 2, 2008 at 11:03 AM
The reason he said he left the church was so the Media would stop bothering them, not that he disagreed with the ideology, sermons or preachers they have. I think that speaks volumes to his judgment on this issue.
JeffinSac on June 2, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Let’s see…He is deeply religious because of Wright’s influence. He is an old friend of Phlager.
This is a man of God who threw his faith home over the side because of politics…Some depth of faith!!!
Such a fraud.
woodswalking1 on June 2, 2008 at 11:45 AM
I believe this decision was indeed ‘deeply personal’ as BO’s thoughts and feelings about America (and the ‘whites’) coincide with his church. To sever that tie must have hurt.
heh
Lord Nazh on June 2, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Yeah, well my loathing of Barack Obama is deeply personal too.
Buy Danish on June 2, 2008 at 12:38 PM
AUINSC is onto something. The Boomers are are the college educated liberal ex hippie non religious whites supporting Messiah. Boomers were the kids of the JFK era. Now they are facing permanent replacement and failing bodies. They are primed for rebuilding the illusions of youth
I was a kid in the Kennedy era. The press slobbered over Jackie, John, the kids, the culture, the perfection, the greatness, the wonder. There was no bad. Later generations have never been exposed to that much positive press for a candidate and there was no web, no PC’s to counter the flow. Walter Cronkite was the wise sage who pompously announced every next moment of wonderment. If something ‘bad’ happened, like the Bay of Pigs betrayal, the press rationalized it as good.
Don’t misunderstand, Kennedy did a lot of good, like cutting taxes.
Starting the space race was a godsend because it lured developers with government contracts to develop new materials and technologies.
Kennedy’s Secret Service used walkie-talkies but the first live sattelite broadcast of news from Europe was in that era. I watched it, a dumb show with Lippanzer stallions from austria and singing and dancing from other nations. Walter Cronkite hosted it of course. Before that there were no live broadcasts from Europe! Imagine that kiddies
The space race took us from vacuum tubes to IC circuits, digital electronics, and miniaturization of components. It created the modern world and placed us financially in the center. Not that Kennedy understood what he triggered. We owe him our wealth, our defense systems, and our cell phones
The non religious Boomers are a dangerous group because there is no Heaven at the end of their road. They have to find it now, and quick. Yikes
entagor on June 2, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Deeply Personal…like a pan pizza.
ronsfi on June 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM
BULLSH!T. nobody believes that.
RMC1618 on June 2, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- - Bill Clinton
I say to it also Bravo Sierra, much as I don’t care for Bill. However, Obama has surpassed him in triangulation and manipulation.
Entelechy on June 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Deeply personal?
Church members sitting in quiet reflection??? Are you high on crack? How about church members screaming and yelling approval as the pastors shout out their racist, hate-mongering diatribes.
Bravo Sierra indeed!
Mojave Mark on June 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM
That reminds me of an old puzzle:
You are walking along a path and come to a fork in the road. There are two people standing there: one who always tells the truth, and one who always lies, but you don’t know which one is which.
You don’t know which path will take you to the town where you want to go.
You are allowed to ask a single question of a single person, and from their answer you must decide which path to take.
It is possible to ask a single question and determine with certainty which path to take.
What question do you ask, and to whom?
Red Pill on June 3, 2008 at 1:10 AM
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Red Pill on June 3, 2008 at 1:10 AM
You ask either one of them (it doesn’t matter which one):
Whatever that answer is, take the other path.
(Because the answer you were given was either a truthful first answer then retold by a liar, or it was a false first answer then retold truthfully) The net is the answer you were given was the false answer, so take the other path and you will get to your destination.
Red Pill on June 3, 2008 at 1:15 AM
AS THOUGH politics aren’t personal!!!
maverick muse on June 3, 2008 at 6:49 AM
Deeply personal decision = keep shoveling,there’s a pony somewhere in here. Sounds like the same old deeply political horse shit to me.
Orson Buggeigh on June 3, 2008 at 9:57 AM
OMG, can they come up with any more lame justifications and excuses which the fawning media just accept as the gospil according to BHO!
PatriotPete on June 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM
It ‘requires the willing suspension of disbelief.‘
wise_man on June 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM
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