Obama attended church today.
He was a regular attendee in Chicago but has not been able to find a pastor who can match his former mentor’s spirit and insight.

It sounded like the congregation was surprised to see him.
The Washington Post reported:

Metroplian AME was filled with people who are waiting to see the Obama family.

“We have been waiting to see this for two years,” said one church member as he passed through a line of metal detectors.

President Obama and the first family will join D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to worship at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Northwest during a service that will reflect on the spiritual fervor of Martin Luther King Jr.

Last year the president delivered a major address the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Districts Vermont Avenue Baptist Church where King spoke when he was alive.

White House sources say this year the president has chosen to sit quietly in the pews with members of the historic church and listen along with his family and other White House officials.

 

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  1. #1 January 16, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Sickofobama commented:

    Sorry but I don’t buy it.

    Obama hasn’t changed one bit.

    Phony as ever.

  2. #2 January 16, 2011 at 10:27 am

    pete t commented:

    Who cares

  3. #3 January 16, 2011 at 10:33 am

    joscefi commented:

    The last time I read of Obama attending church, after the fact it was revealed that “…on that particular Sunday in that particular church, Dr. Ziad Asali, M.D., a Muslim, founder and president of the American Task Force on Palestine, was the guest speaker…”

    http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/09/obama-finally-a.html

    It makes me wonder who’s speaking at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

  4. #4 January 16, 2011 at 10:34 am

    PJ commented:

    Christmas, Easter? No.

  5. #5 January 16, 2011 at 10:34 am

    katy commented:

    2012 is now in full gear folks!

  6. #6 January 16, 2011 at 10:38 am

    L.E. Liesner commented:

    I would as soon he stay out of the church I go to. It is a sad day when you have to go through metal detecters to praise the Lord. Next they will have the TSA there with full body scans and pat downs.

  7. #7 January 16, 2011 at 10:39 am

    Conservative to the Core commented:

    [PRAYING]

  8. #8 January 16, 2011 at 10:44 am

    HeatherRadish commented:

    Metroplian AME was filled with people who are waiting to see the Obama family.

    God’s going to get jealous.

  9. #9 January 16, 2011 at 10:49 am

    patman commented:

    Did they issue t-shirts?

  10. #10 January 16, 2011 at 10:49 am

    Dave-O commented:

    Katy #5 has it spot on. The 2012 campaign is now underway.

  11. #11 January 16, 2011 at 11:00 am

    squeaky commented:

    “The 2012 campaign is now underway.” sometimes i think it never stopped. the local newspaper here is taking pot shots at Palin in their editorial page.

  12. #12 January 16, 2011 at 11:01 am

    FGT commented:

    Katy, Dave-O

    +1

    Doing whatever it takes.

  13. #13 January 16, 2011 at 11:06 am

    squeaky commented:

    OT from doug ross – some nifty new slogans just in time for the election season.
    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

  14. #14 January 16, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Joe Camel commented:

    Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church?
    Maybe a nice white, Hispanic or other ethnic church could somehow be acceptable to him some time.
    Why must it always be racial with him? Just saying.

  15. #15 January 16, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Anthony Mator commented:

    Moments such as these remind why it was so important that Christ called the church, not to conquer Rome, but to work inside of Rome, gathering true believers and setting them apart from those who would use the mantle of religion as a prop.

  16. #16 January 16, 2011 at 11:22 am

    cal rifkin commented:

    Typical cynical politics —the dude’s at least agnostic, if not an atheist or secret muslim.

  17. #17 January 16, 2011 at 11:27 am

    squeaky commented:

    i bet i know what obama was praying for. being in church was just a formality – must polish up his cred with christian blacks…..
    [Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), a charity that campaigns for social change, delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News Thursday demanding that talk show host Glenn Beck get the pink slip.]
    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/14/jewish-group-wants-glenn-beck-dropped-from-
    fox-news/
    well i’ll be hornswaggled! just what is it with these community organizers anyways………
    [Before joining the Jewish Funds for Justice, Simon worked as a labor and community organizer and Jewish social change leader for 15 years. He worked with Solidarity in Poland and unions in South Carolina, and founded Jews United for Justice, an urban social change group in Washington, DC.[2]]

  18. #18 January 16, 2011 at 11:28 am

    olm commented:

    Puke. There is so much wrong here I don’t even want to get started.

  19. #19 January 16, 2011 at 11:30 am

    owl commented:

    OT……The Republican Congress kept me mad enough to spit over their lack of BACKBONE during the Bush years. Now I am gritting my teeth. If these IDIOTS have not the sense to even recognize how the DEM’s MSM push them into corners, I give up.

    NO___NO___NO. Do NOT change tradition and SIT with the DEMS. NO—-NO—NO.
    If this is such a wonderful idea, why did they BOO Bush? Why did they not come over on their own dime????

    If they do this HORRIBLE thing, they just confirmed that the Republicans did these murders.

    They walk through a crowd of a million non-violent protesters trying to INCITE violence. They lie about spitting and racial slurs. Their good friends are all over TV this week saying they are to blame for MURDER. WHAT DOES IT TAKE to get the GOP’s attention. I am so sick of these dumb idiots. DEMS just accused them of murder. What does it take????

  20. #20 January 16, 2011 at 11:30 am

    daryl commented:

    He’s going full court press campaign mode.
    He and mooshelle haven’t been doling that money out to the “poor” and “downtrodden” for nothing. Time to harvest some of that “seed money” he’s been planting.

  21. #21 January 16, 2011 at 11:37 am

    american patriot commented:

    But has not been able to find a pastor who can match his former mentor’s spirit and insight AND RACISM AGAINST WHITEY!!!

  23. #23 January 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    save us commented:

    fake, phony, fraud

  24. #24 January 16, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    apodoca commented:

    He “has not been able to find a pastor who can match his former mentor’s spirit and insight.” That’s easy. All he has to do is go to a mosque. He’ll get a full quotient of America hate there.

  25. #25 January 16, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    This just in……… Obama joins Elks Lodge, National Rifle Association, and the John Birch Society.

  26. #26 January 16, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    nelle commented:

    The dems just want to sit with the repubs so they don’t look so outnumbered when they stand up to cheer. And Obama just wants to sit with the church folk so he doesn’t look so liberal when he’s trying to look moderate for a while.

  27. #27 January 16, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    Scott commented:

    I am a huge Obama critic. I did not and never will vote for him.

    But even if he’s only attending the church to pay tribute to MLK in a cynical ploy to gain political points with the black community, I’m glad he’s there. Nothing bad comes from a day in church.

  28. #28 January 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    DigitalTroglodyte commented:

    Scott, even if it’s a “hate whitey” church?

  29. #29 January 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    Scott commented:

    DigitalTroglodye: Good point.

    I meant a “mainstream” church.

  30. #30 January 16, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    No Man commented:

    It is time to defend yourselves.

    Each year, tens of thousands of whites are assaulted, and hundreds murdered, by blacks mainly because the vicious black church and hateful dem party spent the last 100 years (from 1865 to 1930 the dem party was all KKK all the time) preaching hate whitey and G-D America.

    Wake up, America.

  31. #31 January 16, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    jojo commented:

    Is it Ramadan already?

  32. #32 January 16, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    African Methodist Episcopal Church stated mission:

    1. preaching the gospel,

    2. feeding the hungry,

    3. clothing the naked,

    4. housing the homeless,

    5. cheering the fallen,

    6. providing jobs for the jobless,

    7. administering to the needs of those in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, asylums and mental
    institutions, senior citizens’ homes; caring for the sick, the shut-in, the mentally and socially
    disturbed, and

    8. encouraging thrift and economic advancement.

    Sounds like a community organizer’s dream church. Actually, by what I read, it seems like a mainstream church within the category of ‘black’ churches. No way Obama abandons his former church of 20 years and tosses Wright under the bus only to go join another controversial church. They’re learning to vet!

  33. #34 January 16, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    jorgen commented:

    Was he sitting on his prayer rug?

  34. #35 January 16, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Always On Watch commented:

    It’s for MLK, Jr. Day publicity.

  35. #36 January 16, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    Coastal commented:

    I’ve been waiting two years for obumm to defect…..oh I dont know, maybe to Indo?

  36. #37 January 16, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    squeaky commented:

    was his not to be missed bible properly placed so as the msm will not miss it?

  37. #38 January 16, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    AuntieMadder commented:

    joscefi #3: You posted exactly what I was thinking.

  38. #39 January 16, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Beckwith commented:

    He’s campaigning again.

    Time to go to church, and mosque, and . . .

  39. #40 January 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    just a few reminders of many more..

    please, just keep scrolling down for bg
    & others posts with info links, thanks..

    ==

  40. #41 January 16, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    oh btw, re: #40, via JWF, ht dcat..

    Ground Zero Mosque Imam Replaced With Even More Radical Imam

    joscefi #3

    hmm, for all we know, could be this guy..

    more here..

    (links @ links)

    ==

  41. #42 January 16, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Marti Settle commented:

    Metropolitan “African” Church. Wowee. The Blacks in Washington DC do not consider themselves Americans, why should we. If they want an African Church I suggest that we put them all on ships and send them back to their beloved homeland.

  42. #43 January 16, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    Noah commented:

    Why the African church obama.. normal churches aren’t good enough you have to go to a black only church??

    Not a racist My A$$

  43. #44 January 16, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Marti Settle #42

    could be worse.. and since all of the Obama’s neighbors, friends, sponsors, mentors & co-workers, etc, are connected, probably is..

    ==

  44. #45 January 16, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    UpChuck.Liberals commented:

    Seeing as Barry is half white, did he have to sit halfway to the back?

  46. #48 January 17, 2011 at 12:48 am

    Matt commented:

    George W. Bush or Reagan never attended services.

    It is difficult for the President and an incredible inconvenience for the parishoners.

    Why do you have a different standard for Obama?

  47. #49 January 17, 2011 at 10:28 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Matt #48

    that’s BS.. George and Laura often attended St. John’s Episcopal Church,
    Lafayette Square, Washington DC, as well as Tarrytown United Methodist
    Church in Austin, Texas amongst others (depending on where they were)..

    ==

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