Leave Barack Alone!

Newsflash: Barack Obama has quit his church!

Did he quit because of inflammatory statements made by those who spoke there?

No, he quit because the media reported those inflammatory statements.

The media played clips and reported exactly what was said at the Trinity United Church of Christ. How dare they!

It's pretty simple from my perspective: Either Barack Obama stands by his church or he rejects it.

Either he says, "Like everyone I don't agree with everything they say at my church, but I will continue to stand by it," or "Too many offensive statements that I did not agree with were spoken at my church. Though they are responsible for many positives, my conscience simply does not allow me to remain a congregant of the Trinity United Church of Christ."

But Senator Obama wants it both ways. He rejects certain statements made at his church while condemning the media for reporting them as controversial. Senator Obama, why are you condemning the statements if there is no reason for the media to report them?

Something tells me if there were no media reporting on the church Senator Obama would be in the front row applauding Father Pfleger as the Catholic Priest did his best impression of the Junior Senator from New York crying about her struggles to secure the Democratic nomination.

And Senator Obama seemed to believe this would be a situation that any churchgoer would face should they choose to run for public office. But how many of you attend religious institutions where the sermons are so controversial they are newsworthy? How many of you hear your preacher say things that would make a large portion of the population seethe with anger?

And according to the Senator, the media was hounding the sick and shut-in members of Trinity United Church of Christ. That darn media; they ruin everything with their reporting of the facts, sometimes which require speaking to other people!

Now, if a member of the media picked up the phone with his grubby little hands and knowingly and repeatedly called a shut-in while wearing a smart-alecky grin - that would be an unfortunate situation. But despite how eager the media can be, which often causes them to lack manners most of us posses, do we really think they were "hounding shut-in's?"

To Senator Obama, it's always someone else's problem. The preachers at the Trinity United Church of Christ made outrageous statements; yet the media is the reason he is quitting the church. Michelle Obama says this is the first time in her life she is really proud of her country; yet the media is responsible for attacking Mrs. Obama, and they better lay off.

Did the media make it all up? The preachers said it; his wife said it - the media just told people about it.

Barack Obama calls disseminating information an "attack." The media tells us, "Barack Obama's pastor of 20-years said the U.S. Government created the HIV Virus to control the black population," they are attacking Barack, according to he and his supporters.

We supposedly live in a time when running for president is a dirty, nasty business. It seems to me that it's exactly the opposite. When reality is unpleasant for a candidate they can just blame the entity which brought the truth to light, as well as those who had the nerve to repeat the facts.