Day: June 1, 2008

Obama Throws Church Under The Bus

Barack Obama has quit the Chicago church he attended for two decades – making a final break after inflammatory remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and a second minister shook his campaign.

Obama submitted a letter of resignation to Trinity United Church of Christ on Friday, saying he was leaving his spiritual home for nearly all of his adult life “with sadness.” He told reporters last night that he didn’t want to have to answer questions every time someone at the church said something controversial.

“This was one I didn’t see coming,” Obama said of attacks on his links to Wright and the church. “I did not anticipate my fairly conventional Christian faith being subject to such scrutiny.”

Obama said he prayed about the decision with his wife, Michelle, and another Trinity pastor, the Rev. Otis Moss III, and didn’t want the church subject to added scrutiny because of his candidacy. “I am not denouncing the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing,” said Obama, who also said he hadn’t been there in months.

Personally, I think he should have done this from the beginning of the song and dance with Rev Wright.  Will this be help or hurt?  A good question.

What Happened On The Way To The Nomination

WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.

The committee voted to seat Florida’s and Michigan’s delegates, though both states will have only half-votes. The move brought Obama’s delegate total to 2,052 and Clinton’s to 1,877.5 and increased the number necessary for nomination to 2,118, according to The Associated Press.

WHAT’S AHEAD.

Appeals of the committee’s decision can be made to the party’s 186-member credentials committee, which is charged with deciding which delegates should be seated at the convention. Harold Ickes, a Clinton adviser, said yesterday that she will “reserve the right” to appeal the Michigan decision. But even the credentials committee decision could be challenged if 20 percent of its members were to file a minority report. The issue then would go before the full convention in August

Of course not everyone is happy—Clintonistas are bitching and threatening the convention and to vote for mcCain because they did not get their way.  And today is the Puerto Rican Primary and Clinton is suppose to win handily.  Then on to South Dakota and Montana.  We will see what we will see.