I haven’t said much about Barack Obama since I tend to blog from work and I have to be careful not to “campaign” on government property. But I am at home on my own personal computer and I am ready to weigh in on the Obamas. Yes, both of them.

First, I link to Ith’s excellent rebuttal to Michelle Obama‘s lack of pride in her status as American. A snippet:

I’ve been thinking about Michelle Obama lately. I admit, I don’t get her. She’s my age, but that’s about all we have in common. She has a loving husband, healthy children, an Ivy League education, and makes more money than me and my entire family combined. And yet, she seems so angry, and dare I say it, bitter. In Michelle Obama’s world, living in America sucks. And yet, she is blessed with a life few of us will ever have. She doesn’t have to worry about her next paycheck, or paying a credit card bill, or paying her rent when it goes up. I doubt she ever lived out of the family car when she was a teenager. But instead of feeling blessed at what being an American woman brings her, she’s angry; all the time, it would seem.

Go read the rest - I agree 110%.

Second, it’s really hard for me to believe Senator Obama when he says he never heard the inflammatory things his pastor preached in the 15-20 years he attended that church or that he doesn’t subscribe to Black Liberation Theology. I’ve been a member of many churches and I knew exactly where my pastors were coming from and what was their theology. I guarantee that I would not have stayed in a single church if my pastor said things or whose theology was anything with which I completely disagreed. (I flunked a Religion 101 class my first semester in college because I completely disagreed with the theology that was being put forth in that class and I wasn’t prepared to feed back the expected answers. Instead I took the F with pride and gave back the correct answers.) That it took the recent posturing from the Reverend Wright at the NCAAP and National Press Club for Obama to finally denounce his former pastor tell me that it is merely his political ambition that made him do it. Because if you ask me, I think that Obama believes 100% in that theology - you cannot sit in a church Sunday after Sunday and hear that stuff without believing in it.

Related, I have an Insider subscription to the Glenn Beck radio show and today he ran almost the entire infamous sermon (where he said, “God damn America,” among other things) in response to Rev. Wright’s accusation that he has been taken out of context. I just listened to that sermon and I am telling you this much - he was not taken out of context and he is a racist. What’s sad is that this was his Palm Sunday sermon and instead of preaching of the upcoming passion of Christ, he preached hatred for non-black America and heaped anti-American political statements on his congregation. Of course, from the cheering heard they were in agreement. And he slandered his fellow Christians (Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice, to name just a couple of people), which is not what a pastor is to be about either, especially from the pulpit.

An Aside: The pulpit is not to be used for politics. Ever. I believe that the pulpit is for the sharing of the Gospel only. I don’t care what kind of church you are - if you set aside the Gospel to bring forth a political agenda (whether or not I agree with the viewpoints), you are wrong. My 2 cents.

Now, I was never going to vote for Obama. But I sincerely hope that the people who glommed onto his messiah complex campaign will pay closer attention and rethink their blind worship for a man who is not fit to our President. I’d rather see Hillary in the White House and that’s really saying something.

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1. Amen and dittos all around.

   Posted by  on  05/02/08  at  06:34 PM

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