The Barack Obama Files: Say It Ain't So

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You know, the pastor can't say it, the liberal media has to spin it, believers don't want to hear it, but hey! as the Bible says "we could not speak but what we had seen and heard". In case you live on Mars and haven't been tuning in, there's been talk that presidential contender Barack Obama is a "Manchurian Candidate", an insidious plant (yes, like the pod people from the movie 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers') sent by either Al Qaeda or yeah, maybe the martians, the ones that almost got Tom Cruise. So here in all it's inglorious goofiness are the little snippets of trivia that will either put you to sleep (so you too can be turned into one of the pod people) or maybe transform you into Johnny Got His Gun (BTW, don't panic, that's just an old anti-war film).

First on the list, the string of outrageous home videos of candidate Obama's pastor showing off his flare for colorful theological outbursts. Hey, maybe there's hope for YouTube after all. Now, in case you think the candidate got a bum rap, just stopping in for a quick peek at pastor Wright's epic sermonizing, turns out Mr. Obama has been going to pastor Wright's church for many years. Makes you wonder what message Barack's kids were picking up from pastor Wright's diatribes while sitting in the pew with their dad. But, then, maybe you should see for yourself.

YouTube video: "Obama's Preacher - The Wright Message?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36T1fnIafC0

YouTube video: Barack Obama's admiration for Louis Farrakhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUnBi1i90E&feature=related

YouTube video: Barack Obama's pastor avers that Jesus was a poor black man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJB-qkfUHc&feature=related

Now as for the next clip, I have to say, even at my age, I know I remember at least a few things my pastor said over the last ten years (and, I admit, more so the things that could have been construed as controversial). But Mr. Obama says he didn't know anything was wrong until he saw his own pastor's sermons on television. Yipes!

YouTube video: Barack Obama claims he didn't know about his pastor's radical views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisU0YXJK-Q&feature=related

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Here's a link to an article on the CBS News website that has Barack Obama saying that as Americans, when we get anxious we "cling to our guns and we cling to our faith". Now, I'm not into guns. And more so since, when the Big One hits, guns are not going to cut it anyway. However, if a big saber tooth tiger, or a big wooly mammoth, or a big hairy terrorist were bearing down on me, I do feel that, at least in my case, loud theological pronouncements might not prove to be sufficient for the situation. But, you decide ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/05/16/politics/fromtheroad/entry4103477.shtml