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By Alexis Stodghill, BlackVoices.com
Obama is being harshly criticized for having a pastor who holds challenging views on race in America. Hillary Clinton has used this moment to express her religious views, chiming in: "[Rev. Wright] would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Interestingly enough, a story has broken about the type of "church" Hillary Clinton does choose to attend: an organization cultivated in an open quest for power with a controversial history, an un-Democratic modus operandi and ties to destructive political regimes. These facts will be explained in detail in 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,' by Jeff Sharlet to be published in May.
Columnist Barbara Ehrenreich reports that Hillary seeks spiritual guidance by worshiping with The Family, "a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum." During the 1940s this religious organization "reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolf Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs."
Interesting. To quote Ehrenreich further:
The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the "meek." They believe that, in mass societies, it's only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God's 'dominion' on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it's all about power -- cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or "cells." "We work with power where we can," Doug Coe [The Family's leader] has said, and "build new power where we can't."
Obama has made every effort to explain himself and his religious beliefs, while attempting to bridge the racial divide. What will Hillary have to say of her "chosen family"?
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Obama's pastor got him in trouble
ashanticreek said: "where are the well-connected and influential members of trinity church who will stand with rev. wright and counter the slanderof the congregation as 'racist' and 'separatist'? where are the influential mover-and-shakers of the chicago black community that will attest to the good wright has done in the community and the positive impact of trinity church? why is there no outcry at the racist machinations of the press in its pilloring of rev. wright and its obvious agenda to bring obama down?" (Photo: AP) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Sharpton Shuts Down Tucker Carlson, Defends Obama & Wright
bobgeorge66 said: "Only Al Sharpton can b*tch slap these pundits and make them like it. He brings it to them each and every time - All I have to hear is that Al Sharpton is going to be on.....(insert show here)...and I am watching it. I LOVED how he turned it around on that Tucker guy...." (Photo: Richard Alan Hannon, Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Spitzer Drama & Ho Hypocrisy
EbonyDiva75 said: "Between this woman who was involved with the governor and this link of a segment on the Today Show basically about high price hos, I don't see how these mostly white women who sleep for money and some notoriety (and possibly a future book deal) are any different than [Karrine Steffans, 'Video Vixen']. A HO IS A HO IS A HO--NO MATTER THE RACE AND HOW YOU SLICE AND DICE IT!!! If it was someone like Karrine Steffans doing this, it would be like oh well go figure, typical black woman (why be surprised she does that)..." (Photo: Maury Phillips, WireImage.com) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
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Conceited Black Man: A Serious Epidemic
kanyepest said: "I've been a 'polite, nice guy' and women found that boring. Whenever I've been a little arrogant and let the woman know indirectly that she should be happy to be with me, women started being more responsive to me (and opening up their legs for me more, if you know what I mean). What you read as arrogance may very well be confidence in disguise."" - Comments from Black Voices Boards
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da8653 said: "Forget cleavage. Women should just go topless." (Photo: Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Dr. Alveda King Speaks Against Abortion
kangold05 said: "First, I wish people would use condoms and practice safe sex. Secondly, given the amount of orphaned, murdered and abusedchildren out there.....some folk should not have been given the chance to even conceive moreless give birth....I say its the woman's right to choose whether she aborts her pregnancy. In a perfect world, ever woman that gives birth is a perfect mother who gives 100% to her child(ren).....this is not a perfect world."" (Photo: Jeff Fusco, Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
HALF OF BLACK TEEN GIRLS HAS STD!
holla1600 said: "honestly, i don't know what the real numbers are so i can't dispute what's being said and no one else can either unless someone is conducting their own studies. so my best response to this information is to shake my head and think about a solution to bring the number (whatever it is) down. cuz we all know that it's higher than what it needs to be just based on common sense alone." - Comments from Black Voices Boards
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middlepassage1 said: "Have black people given up on MARRIAGE? Is black love dead? R&B singer Monica has 2 babies out of wedlock. Erykah Badu has 2 babies outof wedlock. Laurn Hill has 3 or 4 babies out of wedlock. Puff Daddy has 3 kids out of wedlock. Rapper T.I. has 4 or 5 kids out of wedlock. Somebody on this board said that Keyshia Cole is now pregnant, and she is not married. 70% of black kids, are born to UNWED mothers--whatever happened to MARRIAGE in the black community?"
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By: Tai Hunter on 3/28/2008 4:38PM
WTF!!?
Is this for real?
Looks like my google/wikipedia time just shot up. We'll see how true this is after a thorough research session....
I'll be back
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By: Jarobie Anderson on 3/28/2008 8:27PM
You probably will never here this story ran on FOX NEWS. It is really said that this has to be tied to his Church as if the Black Church has not suffered enough.
http://www.blacknews4us.com/
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By: SjP on 3/30/2008 2:33PM
First she'll deny it...then she'll say she miss-spoke, but she has since left the church...and finally, Chelsea will say it's "none of your business" cause that's the "Clinton Way".
SjP
http://sojournersplace.blogspot.com
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By: Warren W Wagner on 3/29/2008 1:13AM
The chickens have come home to roost. People have been fired for less. Rev. Wright is going down and he is taking Obama with him.
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By: Cecil Jones on 3/29/2008 6:13AM
You don't choose your parents, but you do choose your husband or wife. If that sorry something gets caught with their pants down in the Oval Office, he should resign and you should get a divorce. Instead of doing the right thing, Hillary did an Obama. She looked the other way as Bill "ministered" Monica. She sold her soul for a chance to get even and take control of the White House. Bill was down like Charlie Brown because she's always been his puppet. Hillary in the Office continues Bill Lame Duck session. He would have no accountability. Not even impeachment would work on him. Too risky! Too angry. New direction. Peace. Hillary we do pick our Supreme Court Justices and sometimes they pick the President.
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By: BOFFO on 3/29/2008 6:17AM
The Black Church? The Black Church? What Black Church? You mean there are now different levels of Christianity based on color? What a bunch of baloney. I don't remember Jesus saying "Sorry, I can only help you based on the color of your skin."??? Once again, Rev Wright is WRONG. Barack should have left the church long ago,,but he stayed because of the political base he attracted. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. NOW IT'S JUMPED UP TO BITE HIM.
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By: johnson on 3/29/2008 8:58AM
i for one, enjoy watching that clip of reverend wrage doing his imitation of wild bill 'wriding durty'.
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By: Ms.Unique on 3/29/2008 12:16PM
This comment is for Warren W Wagner #4.
Obama is not going ANYWHERE,except to the
"WHITE HOUSE"! BELIEVE THAT!
I feel, you go to church to "Worship" "God"!
You go to church to get the "Word"! It is your responsibility to get that "Word", read that "Scripture", "Meditate", and "Speak"! You go because you "Believe" in "God", "Trust", and "Have Faith" in him! You might not agree on everything what a minister says but it doesn't mean to leave the church?
MSNBC had a segment this past Wednesday,"MSNBC Opens The Door on Hillary's Participation". A person by the name of "Joshua Green", did research on Hillary's history. He found out that, Hillary belongs to a "Conservative"church and are to the "Far Right".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/msnbc-opens-the-door-on-h_b_93556.html
Somebody in the Obama Camp and the Media need to check the CHURCH Hillary is going to? I'm sure the REAL TRUTH about Hillary will be brought out!
I know Obama has a lot of love and support from his fam, friends, and supporters to back him up and to stick with him till the END! The end to "VICTORY" into the "WHITE HOUSE"!
I can't wait, until April 22 to vote for OBAMA in the "BURG"!!!! Our city is getting pumped for this "SPECIAL DAY"!
"OBAMA 2008"
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By: Natalia on 3/29/2008 1:40PM
HILLARY IS A BIG LIAR!!!!!!
I want to see her TAX RETURNS!!!!
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By: DetroitD69 on 3/29/2008 4:17PM
WHY ARE YOU (BLACK PEOPLE)SO SUPRISED?????....
WHITE'S ALWAY'S HAVE & ALWAY'S WILL STICK TOGETHER ( WITH "OTHER" WHITE'S ONLY...)WITH THEIR OWN....NAZI OR WHATEVER!!!.......
THAT'S WHY "WE" (BLACK PEOPLE) HAVE TO GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THEM.....AND, THEIR (BLACK) SLAVES!!!
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