Tuesday, July 15, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Obama's Suddenly Dramatically Changed Church Attendance Claims

Egads. Obama spins terribly. At the American Thinker, Ed Lasky notes this recent statement in Newsweek:

As young marrieds, Barack and Michelle (who also didn't go to church regularly as a child) went to church fairly often-two or three times a month. But after their first child, Malia, was born, they found making the effort more difficult. "I don't know if you've had the experience of taking young, squirming children to church, but it's not easy," he says. "Trinity was always packed, and so you had to get there early. And if you went to the morning service, you were looking at-it just was difficult. So that would cut back on our involvement."

After he began his run for the U.S. Senate, he says, the family sometimes didn't go to Trinity for months at a time.

Malia was born in 1998. But a Chicago Sun-Times article cited by Obama's own fact-checking page on his site:

In 2004, he "attend[ed] the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week — or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant."

So what was it? "Every week, or at least as many weeks as he is able," when he's pitching himself to Christian voters in his Senate race? Or "not for months at a time" as he now says, now that Jeremiah Wright has turned toxic in voters' minds?

07/15 09:18 AMShare