Obama gives $2500 in charity in 2004 but gives $21,000 to Rev Wright

[Seeker30]

Wow, unbelievable some people want this man elected.

[democrattotheend]

1. To his church

Not to Reverand Wright personally. Obama is a member of this church community...what's wrong with that? My parents have donated to our synagogue.

[Schema Thing]

2. Too his church

not Reverend Wright personally.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. It's called tithes to the church.

[msongs]

4. wright is a minister, that's what most ministers do every sunday in most churches. nt

[noel711]

32. Gee, I've been a minister for 14 years...

my husband's been minister for 28 years,
but we never ever ever get the whole plate.
Ever.
We are salaried by the board.
The church gets the take,

at which church do you worship where the
preacher gets the full plate?

[endarkenment]

5. To his church not to Rev Wright, which we know because

Obama has released his tax returns. On the other hand Clinton...

[Perky]

10. Does Hillary even give to a Church?

[endarkenment]

18. I dearly wish that our candidate did not.

Yes of course she does. They all do. They are all terrified of the 'A' word.

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[Tesha]

7. If he gave $21,000 to a church, he gave at least $21,000 "to charity".

And it would be charitable of you to not distort things
as you tried to. Presumably you meant "Obama gives $2500
to charities *OTHER THAN HIS CHURCH* and $21,000 to his
church".

Tesha

[NJmaverick]

8. Yeah it's not like Wright's church did anything to help the community

Your posts are insane.

[MADem]

9. That's less than was previously reported, actually! I saw a figure of twenty five grand! nt

[SoFlaJet]

11. BTW Where ARE those tax returns anyway?

have the accountants been ducking sniper fire at their midtown Manhattan offices or something?

[ellacott]

12. Wow, unbelievable that you would post something so stupid

I wish some of you would have out of body experiences so you can look at yourselves.

[Catherina]

19. Unbelievable? I beg to differ

:rofl:

[ellacott]

23. Good point

:)

[Mooney]

13. That's just brilliant.

Maybe you even believe that Obama gave Wright (the pastor, not his church) that money in one-dollar-bills that he inserted in his daishiki every time he said "God damn America"?

Maybe you will find some equally compelling evidence that Obama found a nickel on the street and didn't report 40% of it to the IRS as "found income"?

[cliffordu]

14. Contemptable.

You, I mean. spin, spin, spin, spin..... :puke:

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[Seeker30]

24. I understand why you're upset, I would be a little irate if I found this out about my candidate

But don't shoot the messenger

[Unsane]

26. Still think people haven't caught on to you?

[cboy4]

25. I was going to say the same thing about you Insane .. you

know, with you defacing a Democrat the way you do in your sigline.

I can't imagine I'd find a more offensive graphic at Free Republic.com.

[Seeker30]

30. Actually only a freeper would defend giving $$ to a radical church and none to charity

[Hutzpa]

16. Good God ! !

$21000 is that all.....:wow:


Tonya Harding is that you?

[malta blue]

17. so what....doesn't his church have social justice

programs?

Geez - get a life.

[cboy4]

20. I like Obama's United Church of Christ ... it's supported

same-sex marriage since '05 when it became the first mainline Christian denomination to do so.

You'd think Obama would be cool with that.

[endarkenment]

21. Did you step up while others stepped out?

[mrJJ]

22. How about $1.5 Mill for an endorsement?

ROFLMAO better then giving our taxpayer money to a Pastor for an endorsement.

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) secured more than $1 million in federal funding last year for a Harlem-based non-profit whose leader gave her presidential campaign a major endorsement last weekend.

Clinton -- who is aggressively competing for the black vote with her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) -- touted the endorsement of Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, a prominent black leader and pastor of one of the oldest black churches in America, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200801/POL20080124d.html

[theboss]

27. $21000 to Rev Wright is money to charity

Last I checked, a church counts as a charitable contribution.

[book_worm]

28. Wow, unbelieveable I opened this stupid thread.

[stray cat]

29. A man who tithes to the church he belongs to who provides social services to the community

How horrible!

[jwirr]

31. He gave to the church not to the preacher. Churches, especially

churches in the black community, do a great deal of "charity" work. I give much more to my church because it too is very active in the community: food shelf, world hunger, sponsorship of children throughout the world, clothing closet, habitat for humanity, etc. Your post is at the least uninformed.

[GOTV]

33. Seeker30 aims at Obama - shoots self in foot.

Donations go to the church

[Vinca]

34. Have you bothered to check out the good works this church does? nt

[Blue Diadem]

35. So you really mean he gave $23,500 to charity.

I am sure you are aware that the pastor of a church doesn't personally get that money.

[wowimthere]

36. You act as if parishioners agree with everything their pastor says...

While you're watching Buchanan make a fool of himself on MSNBC as the racist that he is, have you ever stopped to consider how many of them you actually watch on television, interact with at work, at play, writing those daily columns.

This is the point. You're making a judgment based on what a pastor said in anger. You're not making a judgment based on Obama as a presidential candidate.

That's why there's separation of CHURCH and STATE.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

37. Can't hear ya. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat. SNIPERZ!!!!!!!

[Stephanie]

38. So you comb through Obama's taxes & the worst thing you can come up with is he tithed to his church?

Bring. It. On.

Where are http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4896791">HILLARY'S TAX RETURNS? We're still waiting...

[BigDDem]

39. Holy shit

$2,500?? (besides "God Damn America")
Hell, I gave more than that and I make a tiny fraction of what
Barry and Michelle make.