Obama FINALLY Says No More!

Again, all that really can be said is this - WHAT IN THE WORLD took Obama so long????? This was not brain surgery. This was simply moving as far away from a person or situation that was directly and negatively affecting his chances to become President. And this was not a questionable situation. It was blatantly obvious to everyone, literally everyone.

So finally, after months and months of his old pastor making inappropriate speech after speech, Obama finally could not longer be associated with him and officially resigned from the church he and his family had been members of for decades.

If Obama had not remained a leader for the Democratic nomination for President I am sure this would have never happened and they would have remained with the church, especially with Wright retiring and a new pastor taking over. But with the battle for the nomination now in the final months everything negative had to be eliminated. And that meant eliminating the terribly offensive Wright. It finally IS the end of the Obama-Wright relationship. It should have happened months ago!

From the Time.com story

On Friday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, wrote a letter to Trinity’s new pastor, Moss, announcing their resignation from the church. On Saturday, in a question-and-answer session with reporters in Aberdeen, SD, Sen. Obama explained that in the wake of Wright’s NPC appearance, he and his wife had prayed for guidance on how to handle their relationship with Trinity. Obama told reporters he suspected that “it was going to be very difficult to continue our membership there as long as I was running for president. The recent episode with Father Pfleger,” he continued, “just reinforced the view that we don’t want to have to answer for everything that’s stated in a church. On the other hand, we also don’t want a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes.”

Obama also said his family would not join another church until after the November general elections. He even seemed to suggest that it’s a bit disingenuous for a political candidate to feel compelled to choose a congregation based on a political, rather than purely spiritual, calculus. Should he choose to join a predominately black church, it’s highly possible that what’s delivered from the pulpit could, again, shock people unfamiliar with the nuances, cadences — and occasionally harsh rhetoric — of the black American church experience. “I do think there is a cultural and a stylistic gap that has come into play on this issue,” Obama said Saturday. “I haven’t figured out exactly how this is managed … But I am confident that we are going to be able to find a church we feel comfortable with and that will reflect our concerns and values.”

The whole episode has stunned many Trinity members, but its ultimate conclusion was not that much of a surprise to some. Dwight N. Hopkins, an authority on Black Liberation Theology at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, as well as a longtime Trinity member, recalls watching a clip of Pfleger’s comments. “I thought, given that this is a presidential season, and that Sen. Obama is a member of the church, there was going to be some type of fall out. I didn’t know the exact nature of it,” Hopkins says. In the wake of the Obamas’ departure, he adds, “People are saddened and confused — some people might be a little angry.”

Wright’s retirement, which became official today, had been planned for years. It’s highly possible the Obamas may have found a more kindred spirit in Moss. He is 37, educated at Morehouse and Yale. His delivery is silky smooth, not nearly as bluntly political as the 66-year-old Wright’s. But it is no less of a performance: He often pops the microphone between his hands during a sermon, so as to free the other hand to chop the air to emphasize words.

Moss’ sermon on early Sunday seemed to suggest the church was trying hard to focus hard on its business and away from the controversy of the past several months. Several members seemed to agree. “The congregation isn’t caught up in that larger debate — it’s a distraction,” says Hopkins, the University of Chicago professor. “We’ve still got to teach Bible class. None of this is going to impact the work of our ministries, or the scholarships we give to black colleges.”

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