Obama throws an inconvenient church under the bus.

When Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor and declared spiritual advisor Rev. Jeremiah Wright became a regular on the news due to his off the wall political speeches-called sermons by some-Obama saw the possibility of damage to his campaign for the presidency.

Obama was hesitant at first to disown the former pastor of his home church-the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. In what has been dubbed the "race speech" in Philadelphia, Obama offered many excuses for the man and vowed that "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."

However when the "good" Reverend strutted his stuff at the National Press Club in a effort to drive home his wacky and hate filled political doctrine, Obama changed his tune. Jeremiah Wright was thrown to the wolves.

"There wasn’t anything constructive out of yesterday. All there was was a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth. And I can’t construct something positive out of that," Obama said. He also proclaimed that Wright was "never his spiritual advisor" or "spiritual mentor."

According to the words of Reverend Jeremiah Wright in an interview with the New York Times over a year ago, it appears that Obama's dumping of Wright was a deal the two men made in advanced.

"He might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Wright told the paper. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”

In Obama's big "race speech" he also reconfirmed his dedicated to his church and its people. He spoke of his experiences in the organization that he had also previously written about in his book, "Dreams of My Father."

"People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note -- hope! -- Those stories -- of survival, and freedom, and hope -- became our story, my story," he said.

Since Obama's denouncement of Wright, Trinity has continued on its wacky way by stumping the same message with a different pastor-Otis Moss. Moss has continued preaching the gospel "according to Wright" and even compared Wright to Jesus. Obama lauded Moss as a "wonderful young pastor."

However when videos recently hit the airways of a visiting Catholic priest-Michael Pfleger- giving his own Jeremiah Wright style sermon/Obama stump speech at Trinity, once again Obama's "story" regarding his church became a different one.

On Saturday Obama announced that he was resigning from the church "with some sadness" and that it was a decision he did not "come to lightly." "We don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in the church," he said. "We also don't want the church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes."

Obama's political buddies appear to be breathing a sigh of relief that Obama has decided to withdraw his church membership from Trinity. "I think it bodes well for us in the general election that we can put whatever issues there were behind us in respect to the church," U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida said.

It appears that Obama has decided to take a "love/hate" approach when dealing with his spiritual life and the relationships he has formed as a result of it. He loves to stick around but hates it when even those on the left run out of excuses for it.
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