“I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!” was being played nonstop on cable news networks, with Moss praising Pfleger at the end.
In a painful episode of his quest for the White House, likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday his family withdrew their membership at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.
The damage control came as his church — and controversial sermons from the Trinity pulpit — were increasingly becoming a target that threatened Obama’s presidential bid.
“This is not a decision I came to lightly, and frankly it’s one that I make with some sadness,” Obama said.
Obama cut the cord to the church where he found Jesus Christ, where he was married, where his daughters were baptized–and whose pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave him the title of his best-seller, The Audacity of Hope — following months of controversy, first over Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. The triggering event was the Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday where he ridiculed Sen. Hillary Clinton from the Trinity pulpit.