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The fix is in to get “The O-man”, as some affectionately call him, one way or the other.

When it came to Mitt Romney, religion was off the table. Some say that you can’t consider a candidate’s religious beliefs in deciding to vote for them; which I think is absolutely ridiculous, of course you can (it’s your vote) and should look at what guides someone’s beliefs which guides there actions.

But this was the line so stringently put out, and reinforced by the mainstream media. Even when Mike Huckabee asked “don’t Mormon’s believe Jesus and the Devil are brothers”; there was an outrage; though they do in essence believe that. Notice Mitt didn’t rush to deny it like any Christian who finds that abhorrent or silly would have.

Yet, any allusions to Mitt’s religion was strictly off the table.

But clearly there are different rules for Obama. First they’ve spent months trying to convince people he’s a muslim. There are your normal idiots who were easily convinced; but for the most part it hasn’t stuck, and 2/3rds through the primary he leads for the Democratic nomination despite the bigoted fearmongering.

Then they tried to attach him to white community lighting rod Louis Farrahkan, through dubious means. Tim Russert attempted to swiftboat him with Farrahkan more than a month after Obama had already spoken out against him, and with the false claim attributing words of grandeur to Obama’s former pastor Jerehmiah Wright, that weren’t even his words.

Now someone has unleashed the IRS on Obama’s church. Churches and other religious organizations are able to get tax exempt status, partially predicated on the Church not engaging in advocating for elected officials. The pretext they’re using to go after Obama’s church is Obama having delivered a speech at a United Church of Christ (UCC) General Meeting in Connecticut last June. One that was not a campaign stomp speech. Nor in the two weeks since the IRS sent a letter notifying the church of the investigation, has anyone been able to demonstrate one iota of anything suggesting that anything has transpired with either his local congregation or with the denomination participating in campaigning.

Yet the Fox & Friend’s program offers this up as evidence of a violation: Wright, who’s no longer even the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago though the bafoons in the news media keep referring to him as so, said from the pulpit that Hillary Clinton can’t know what it’s like to be Black in America, Barack Obama can.

Are you kidding me? That’s campaigning? If that’s the case then close down all Black churches. Since when does the prohibitions for tax exempt status then take away basic freedom of speech to express an opinion?

The Fox & Friends morons then go on to extrapolate that you can insinuate from those words that he’s telling you to vote for Obama. There’s a little problem with this thing called “the law”. See, you can’t make up what you believe a person was thinking, put words in their mouth, and then claim they violated the law. It doesn’t matter what Jerehmiah Wright thinks, such a statement doesn’t violate the statue.

Further more, folks the likes of Jerry Faldwell for decades have made much more direct and indorsing statements of politicians and specific bills up for vote; along with a mirriad of other politically activist white preachers; but nobody saw need to go after them.

But Obama merely speaking at his churches conference (I guess when you’re running for president your now no longer allowed to publicly practice your faith), and his former pastor making a benign statement about the cultural purview of the candidates is reason for a federal investigation?

You know what it’s really about though – Get the black guy out before he becomes president, at any cost.

They don’t like Jeremiah Wright or his friendliness with Farrakhan (who by the way is mainstream in Black America: his march on Washington brought out more than King’s, even when you adjust for relative population at their respective times), and they don’t like Trinity’s motto of “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian”. So they’re now going to take this shot at him.

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