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From The Room: Obama: Crazy Pastors Just Seem to Love Me

June 3, 2008 - ABERDEEN, South Dakota - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said yesterday that, though he doesn't know why, "inflammatory and controversial pastors just have a thing for me." Mr. Obama...

Obama leaves Trinity Church: divisive anti-Obama sermon coming this Sunday

June 2, 2008 - The unhinged-pastor straw has finally broken the anxious-politician camel's back: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has officially left Trinity Church "with some sadness." First, anci...

From The Room: Trinity United Church of Christ Is Taking It Hard

June 2, 2008 - Now that Barack Obama has resigned from his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, one would think they would simply each go their own way. But if the signs around Tr...

From The Room: This Week In Obviousness

June 1, 2008 - Three big stories of the last week of May 2008 revealed some, well...non-major developments. Still, the week went out with a healthy dose of what grandmothers across the land refer to as "pizzazz." So we hereby celebrate it, for it reminded us that even though we sometimes report...

From The Room: Hillary's Election Day Giveaway

May 3, 2008 - Gas Tax Holiday still not enough to convince voters? Time to double down. Or triple down...

From The Room: Team Christ Always Wins

May 2, 2008 - I like both Hillary and Obama, not so much the other guy. McCain tells us in this dangerous world of terrorists that he is the only one we can depend on, or is he the one who wears Depends? He's confused, and so are we. The real contest is...

Is John Hagee the white Rev. Wright?

May 1, 2008 - As Senator Obama cleans up the mess made by his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attention is being paid to the anchors weighing down the campaigns of Senators McCain and Clinton. McCain supporter Reverend John Hagee has cal...

"Thrown under the bus": the 23/6 buzzterm of the day

May 1, 2008 - After Barack Obama's denunciation of Rev. Jeremiah Wright this week, the TV pundits' most favorite terms has been...

From The Room: An Open Letter to All $#@%&$! Pundits

April 30, 2008 - Dear Mr. Blitzer, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Colmes, Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Ingraham, Mr. King, Mr. Hume, and anyone else paying attention: Since I travel for work and spend more hours in hotel rooms than a $5 hooker, I know the reason windows in hotels don't open anymore--so people...

From The Room: Distancing Ourselves from Past Relationships

April 30, 2008 - Influenced, no doubt, by the extremely public questioning about relationships we've been privy to this week--Obama's rift with Rev. Wright...

From The Feed: Barack throws Jeremiah under the church van's wheels, then backs up

April 29, 2008 - The Senator extracts himself from the claws of Reverend Wright...

From The Room: Taxing the Church

April 29, 2008 - Watching Bush's press conference today, I realized how great it is when Bush looks presidential, if only he actually was. Speaking of the presidency and the press, Obama says he's...

From The Room: Spam-a-Lot

April 29, 2008 - Dear Viagra, Debt Relief, Cialis, Medco, Vicodin, Giftree, Baccarrat, TrinityAlumni, eScapes, Flowers.com, Amazon, Apple, Amex, Ticketmaster, Equity Financing, The Rundown, ElEvate.com, Bueno Tech, Classmates.com and African Diamond mines: This is an opportunity too good to pass up. I'd like to tak...

From The Room: Barack Obama Should Defend Reverend Wright

April 28, 2008 - I realize this might be an unpopular stance, but I think Reverend Wright should be running for president. I heard him speak about Arabic being a language not a religion. This is a great point, a...

From The Room: With God's Help and Friends Like Rev. Jeremiah Wright...

April 28, 2008 - The Democrats no longer need the opposing party to get swiftboated. They have spouses, staffers, former supporters and Barack Obama's longtime pastor to do that. The religious leader's most recent ratin...