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Does Obama Have a Controversial Pastor Problem…Again?

Ever since a producer from WRNO-FM in New Orleans tipped The Blaze to Dr. Wallace Charles Smith (Obama’s Easter Sunday pastor) and his racist 2010 speech, people have started to take notice. Rush Limbaugh talked about it Monday (and again yesterday), and last night Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly took on the topic, too.

During his Talking Points segment, O’Reilly accused Smith of stirring up bias “for absolutely no reason” and asks, why would the president sit and listen to a pastor who holds these views?

Hannity then had a lively debate with Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes over the issue, which you can watch here.

Hannity uncovered more video of Smith, this time saying that Obama’s former controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright “never said anything that was wrong.”

Hannity asked, “Why is [Obama] always in pews listening to such controversial spiritual leaders?” He brought on a panel to debate the issue, during which he pointed out that Obama being at Smith‘s church legitimizes the pastor’s comments (even if they are from 2010):

What do you think? Does Obama have a pastor problem? Why does he seem to find himself in the pews in front of such speakers?

Comments (107)

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  • Tony
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:15am

    The president his handlers knew the pastor and knew the pastor’s messages. The intent of attending, as is always the case with this president, was to increase the divison of the country by pitting one group against another through mistrust and hatred. And by visiting this church led by a polite sounding Jeremiah Wright, the president bolstered his own as well as the pastor’s standing. The president lent credibility to the message of division and hatred.

    He also let the New Black Panthers, the old black panthers, and the race baiting industry know that he stood with them even on Easter.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:15am

    Birds of a feather flock together.

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  • rr8189
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:14am

    I believe Cobra Blue is correct. This is nothing more than a distraction. If it’s not, Obama is more racist, arrogant, and anti-American than I thought.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:10am

    What do you think? Does Obama have a pastor problem? Why does he seem to find himself in the pews in front of such speakers?

    The President does not have a pastor problem. He has a racist problem. A large majority of black people have a racist problem. They want to blame white people for their condition, and yet black people can immigrate to this country and succeed. Why can’t citizens in this country do well? Others can. The clear truth is that Obama is a racist and he believes that white people need to suffer.

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  • Dr. BombBay
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:09am

    There is no problem here. He hides nothing. He is a naked Marxist. The ONLY thing I repect about him is that he does not hide who he is. If you watch and listen he tells.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:07am

    obama has a marxist-socialist-communist problem. obama’s choice in religion is a side show, he has no real religious beliefs and only uses religion for political gain and public acceptance.

    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.

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  • teammommy
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:07am

    Does any of these Black preachers ever JUST PREACH THE GOSPEL? I GO TO CURCH TO WORSHIP, NOT TO HEAR A POLITICAL SPEECH. Obama, doesnt your family, especially the children, need to go listen to the word of God, not the word of hate?

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:06am

    Oboma’s pastors give the term pastor a bad name. His Pastors are mimi antichrists.

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  • Carol1955
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:04am

    Just as everyone who has parked their butt in a church is not a Christian, everyone who preaches in a church is not automatically bringing the message of the salvation of Jesus Christ to the people. Many mainline churches are simply tax exempt leftist political organizations loosely covered in “Christian” appearence. The Methodists push environmentalism, gay rights, abortion rights etc., many black churches seem to push black liberation theology. The good thing is that it is becoming clearer which churches are Biblically based and which ones are false IF you have ears to hear and eyes to see. The Bible clearly warns us that this will happen.

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    • CountryMc
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 11:23am

      There’s a lot of truth to that.

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    • goengo
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:53am

      I converted to the United Methodist Church about ten or twelve years ago, and have attended three different churches of that denomination. Since the Pastors frequently change every couple of years, and larger churches have Associate Pastors, I have listened to more than a dozen UMC ministers preach – and their message is the Gospel and individual salvation through Jesus Christ. Not once have I heard a single word about environmentalism. As far as gay rights or abortion rights are concerned, I have heard absolutely nothing that condones either – just the opposite!

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  • beaubird
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:03am

    There is so much evidence against this man, why cannot somebody charge him with treason and traitor and communist and a crook, fraud, and the list goes on.He could be in jail today and nobody is doing it. If we did all this we would have already been in jail and would not see the light of day!!!!!!!!! He is the biggest crook there ever was. Is there nobody that has the courage to charge him, My god what in the hell does it take for him to just anounce he is a crook and fraud!!!!!!! He has done everything there is against everything we stand for!!!!!!!Fire HIM somebody get some balls!!!!!!

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    • lel2007
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:13am

      Such a charge would have to come from the Republicans and require at least some support from the democrats. But no politician has the courage to charge America’s First Black President with the truth.

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  • jpjuve
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:58am

    We have a saying in spanish similar to that of Glenn Beck’s : tell me who your friends are and i will tell you who you are.

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:23am

      @JPJUVE ~~~

      Will you write it in Spanish here for us, please? We still have many friends where we lived for many years in Central America, and I would like to send it to them.

      Dios le bendiga, en el nombre sobre todo, Jesús Cristo, amen.

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  • Aikes
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:58am

    When doesn’t he? It is a reflection of his true beliefs. He puts on a smile, reads what others put together for him and present on teleprompters, and plays the part but it is a thinly veiled act. He has some deep resentment and racial bias in him. If he weren‘t that type of individual then he wouldn’t be constantly surrounding himself with leaders of those camps of thought. His list of good friends include everything from devoted communists and anarchists to black power and hate whitey “pastors”. Everyone is trying so hard to buy into the act and keep forcing themselves to ignore the crowd he runs with.

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  • Volsense
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:56am

    Obama just reinforced what he really believes. Spending 20+ years in Wright’s pews and now this racist clown in D.C. is reality. You would have to be a brainwashed lemming with a single digit IQ to even suggest otherwise. To hear anyone say Obama didn’t know Smith was a flaming racist just means Obama is totally incompetent or that they are a complete fool. No other explanation.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:03am

      I agree,,It funny how all these clueless ******** get up and blindly lie and make excuses for Obama.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:56am

    “Does Obama Have a Controversial Pastor Problem?”

    I’d say he has a problem that with everyone he meets with is controversial. Just say it Blaze, Obama is a Socialist and has been one all his life. He has been influenced by his mother, Frank Davis, every person he has met with in Chicago. He has a problem with wealthy people, (unless itis his own money, but don’t they all) and wants them to distribute their wealth.

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  • cosette
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:56am

    When I moved here and first sought a church to attend , I looked for one that was of the same faith, grounded in the word and non political. When I sit down to eat , I seek physical nourishment. When I attend church, I seek spiritual nourishment. If my pastor were to preach a hateful or divisive sermon I would leave, never to return. Obamao obviously has an opposite set of criteria. He seeks a church where his bigotry can be reinforced and justified. He , along with the willing lap dog media ,managed to deceive the masses..The mask has been pulled off. He is Al Sharpton on steroids. God help us!

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  • beaubird
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:56am

    Because obummer is a racist, marxist, and socialist , are people crazy!!!!! If they dont see that they just dont care and they are all that theirselves!!!!!! Obummer needs to be throwed out as a traitor to the USA and not impeached!!!!!!!! Throwed out!!!!!!! No salary, No benefits or anything else that a pres. gets.after he is out of office!!!! He will go down as the worst pres, in history and the only one that was and is a traitor and communist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • donh2
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:55am

    Bill O’Reilly really nailed this on his show last night, and he really didn’t have to say much. Just focusing on the issue got Alan Combs into a table pounding RANT.

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    • mrsmileyface
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:08am

      You know the truth was being spoken when Colmes gets unhinged.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:54am

    What’s so controversial about hating whitey? Didn’t you know that racism is OK when it comes from the Left?

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    • starman70
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:30am

      Or from Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Malcom X (While he was living) or the Black Panther group. These are the ones who really have BHO’s ear. Don’t forget Ahmadinijad of Iran, Castro of Cuba, Cavez of Venezuela and the rest of the Communist world.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:51am

    This stuff hopefully will continue to show the lack of reasoning skills BO has and will hasten people to turn from him at an accelerated rate. Maybe he’ll visit the moonies next.

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  • PA PATRIOT
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:51am

    Oh Darn, ,
    They have got me pegged.

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  • handsoffmystuff
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:46am

    Does an alchaholic have a problem? Of course not. They drink, they get drunk, they fall down. No problem.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:45am

    He obviously seeks these guys out because their viewpoint matches his. So, it’s not a “Controversial Pastor Problem” it’s a theological problem.

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  • lcassavaugh
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:45am

    I can‘t help but wonder how much of that type of ’preaching’ is happening every week in churches around the country. My pastor preaches the Bible and only the Bible and I thank God for that!

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    • MEESHEL
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:52am

      Everyone has to struggle through life. Everyone falls down and has to get up and dust him/herself off. Everyone fails and has to start over. It’s easy to blame someone else… or a whole other race. But at some point, folks need to start taking responsibility for their own lives and decisions. Mr. Obama, you are one of those people. As are his pastors.

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  • matt708
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:44am

    obama’s problem is that he is constantly in campaign mode and never in presidential mode.

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    • jpjuve
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:06am

      It is clear to us now, that President Obama is not fit for the leader of the freeworld position. To visualize it, our pilot is taking the plane into a plunge and we need someone with leadership skills that takes notice and takes control to put us back on track for our safety.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 4:03pm

      I would like to most respectfully disagree with your statement that he’s taking us into a plunge. It’s actually a death spiral. Around, and around, and around and around on the same issues…..lower, and lower, and lower, and lower.

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  • cessna152
    Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:44am

    Yes, he does. Their slander and arrogance are not being “bought” by the American people any more. People, we are in a raft floating in the middle of the ocean in dire need of help. Are you going to be a complainer? Or a finger pointer? Or a person that figures out how to get us to safety?

    Just like the raft in the middle of the ocean… we are surrounded by sharks and running out of precious time….what will you choose?

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    • DIOS BENDIGA AMERICA ... JESUCRISTO ES EL SEÑOR!
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:50am

      Obama has a Jesus problem. We shall know a tree by the fruit it bears. Not judging ol’POTUS, though a little fruit inspection reveals that if I were in his shoes I would be concerned about having gate issues into Heaven.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:55am

      Obama doesn’t have a “Pastor Problem”……. HE is the problem

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:00am

      ROME is burning…WHO CARES. Bringing this to light will accomplish nothing. Did the Jeremiah Wright ordeal change things? NO! We know who Obama is. We have since day one. THE FIX IS IN. This is nothing new. Just a distraction.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:02am

      Obama has a faith problem and a understanding problem; he sees this ‘collective salvation’ junk as the only way for all to be saved, when the bible teaches that GRACE is open to all to ACCEPT or to REJECT as WE chose.

      WE make the choice, no one else is accountable for our own decisions in the end, we stand or fall by the actions we do; the only thing all are held to are the same standards of the commandments and the relationship we have in God and Jesus.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:03am

      Birds of a feather…

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    • insight
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:06am

      It‘s not the Obama supporters that agree with him that I have a problem with it’s the ones who are blind to who he is that I have a problem with.

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:15am

      @CESSNA152~~~

      I agree with DIOS BENDIGA ~~~ the noman has a JESUS problem, a CHRISTIAN FAITH problem. he is no CHRISTIAN and he does not follow nor does he love our JESUS. he speaks with a lying tongue because he follows satan, the father of liars and lies.

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:29am

      Obama sat in Rev Wright‘s pews for 20 years because he agreed with Wright’s message. He went to Shiloh Baptist because he is comfortable with the Rev’s message. What part of Black Liberation Theology do you not understand??? Obama has a very different view of America and what it should be. Unfortunately he currently has the power to make the changes he feels are needed. Do we stand by and let it happen or do we stand against him?? Sadly the great majority of the sheep don’t know or care what is happening and we are probaly doomed. It was a good country, once.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:34am

      “Does Obama have a controversial pastor problem again?”

      NO! He does not have a problem with it at all.

      American citizens have a problem with his choice of pastors and churches, with his attitude, arrogance, hatred of capitalism, and disdain for We the People in general.

      “Your actions are consistent with your values.” Obama/Soetoro‘s actions are consistent with overthrowing America’s Republic.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 9:52am

      Of course he does, he and he rest of the liberals and progressives can’t live without the hate that they cause.

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:40am

      America hating people are the type Obama always supports and embraces.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Let’s face it, racism is dead as a political argument. What to do? What to do?
      Next best thing– let’s try to stir up some “believers” in racism using church leaders who thrive on it.

      They are desperate to get racism back–or at least the support of those who voted for Obama because he’s “black.”

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    • militiaman
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Amen, brother. A call to awareness is what we vitally need.

      The number of black on white attacks as in the McDonald’s fiasco have always been numerous, but thankfully for advanced technology those kinds of incidents can no longer be submerged by the mainstrean media who are promotors of left wing causes no matter how kooky they might be.

      And this president’s silence on these issues, plus his embracing of the leftist radical professor at Harvard who broke the law, without knowing of the particulars of the incident, added to his obvious delight with Jeremiah Wright who is a preacher who encourages black hate, plus his refusal to prosecute armed Black Panthers who were threatening voters with warnings that they were at the polling place to make sure a black man was elected, in addition to Obama’s continued silence on the same Black Panther who was screaming on a busy street corner to kill all whites and their blond hair, blue eyed babies, is now attending the church of another anti-American, anti-white hater, all prove unequivocally that he is of the same ilk as the people he associates with.

      For the mainstream press to protect and promote this man and his racism is a crime of huge proportions.

      Wake up America and protect yourself. This surely one of the darkest periods in our history.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 27, 2011 at 3:14pm

      Pastor problems are just one of many problems Obama has, and like this problem, he is clueless on how to solve them.

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