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Todd is a friend on our MySpace page and recently shared his experience attending Barack Obama’s church...

"My name is Todd, and I live in Chicago. I am a white guy. For the sake of admitting my biases, I am a liberal. My preferred candidate for president was John Edwards, but if Obama is my party’s nominee, I will not be disappointed. That being said, I am taking this time to write a response to an email I recently received about Barack Obama, or more to the point, Barack Obama’s church. The email states that Barack Obama’s church (Trinity Unity Church of Christ) has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa and that you will only be welcomed there if you are black.

"According to the church’s mission statement, they do in fact have a strong commitment to Africa. Such a statement can be taken a number of ways, though I suspect it is quite benign. Most likely, his church’s commitment to Africa is a call to ’remember our roots and be proud of being black.’ Their mission statement is heavy on the black community, but what do you expect? They’re a black church in a black neighborhood. All Christian congregations experience Christ differently, and this has been so since 33 AD. I do not see anything wrong with applying Jesus’s teachings to your personal struggles. The paradox of the black church is that they try to project individual struggles into endemic, representative struggles for the entire black community. It is both a source of strength and of weakness. It helps draw them together as a community, but at the same time there is always an accompanying charge of racism or exclusivity. But what community shouldn’t be closer? These are the people in your neighborhood, who will take you to work when your car dies. We remember, for instance, the story of stone soup.

"At the same time, I do not think twice about seeing a Greek Orthodox church; a Russian Orthodox church; the church down the street that offers a sermon in Polish every Sunday; or the Horeb House of Worship, an Indian-Christian church that shares the building with my mostly white Presbyterian church. Say, did anyone ever ask Huckabee how many black people go to his church?

"The more serious charge in the email was that one can only join Barack’s church if he is black. Realizing I had to put my money where my mouth is, I decided to attend worship there and see for myself. So last Sunday I made the 15 mile trek down to the Trinity Unity Church of Christ. I was going to be very disappointed if they did not let me in after all that trouble! We elected to go to the 7:30 a.m. service and parked in the neighborhood near the church. When we got to the front door, I took a deep breath. The moment of truth! We opened the door and went inside… and nothing happened. The greeters greeted us, handed us bulletins and smiled. It was all pretty normal.

"We walked into the sanctuary and sat on the back pew. The lady in the pew in front of us turned and told us we could not sit there. Was there some sort of segregated seating arrangement, I wondered? No. According to the woman, ’That pew is where the ushers sit.’ As we walked to another pew, I looked around and saw very few white people. I would estimate that the congregation was 99 percent black, though the 11 a.m. and the 6 p.m. services may have different make-ups.

"We moved to a different pew and sat. In the few minutes before the service started, several people welcomed us. When the service began, the pastor asked that all the visitors stand and be welcomed. We stood, and more people came over to welcome us. I was hugged a couple of times, and many people shook my hand. The pastor told us we were welcome and said, ’If there is anyone here who does not have a church home, we ask that you make us your home. If you already have a church home, we hope you will take our prayers and blessing back to them.’ I noticed that there were several visitors that day -- I would say that 10 were black and six were white. I also noted that the pastor did not say, ’All of you are welcome to join except for the white people.’

"The sermon was about learning to take pride in what you are doing for the greater glory of God, along with the stern statement that nothing in life comes free. We have to work for it. But, he also talked about how, as a community, we have an obligation help keep each other on the right path. The pastor told of his upbringing in Georgia, and how his father had explained that the black community there conducted itself largely along the same moral and ethical code as the West African villages from which many of the people there had emigrated. Everyone in the village was Aunt So and So or Grandmother So and So. When you spoke to an adult, it was ’No, sir’ or ’Yes, Ma’am.’ When one of your friend’s parents met you for the first time and asked, ’Who are your people,’ you did right to explain which church you went to and what they stood for. That was how they knew you were not going to be a bad influence on their kid.

"Then there was a performance by the children’s choir, numbering around 100 kids of various ages, and a group of dancers performed an interpretive dance to the music. The dancing was a little too charismatic for my taste, but to each his own.

"The pastor asked us to pray in silence for a while. The man sitting next to me took my hand and asked if there was anything that I would like to pray about. I told him about the upcoming decision regarding my tenure at work, and he told me he would pray about it. I asked him, and he told me of his son, Dierre, who was about to ship out to Iraq. He said he would appreciate my prayers for him. And so we prayed.

"After the offering, the pastor talked briefly about an editorial in the Chicago Tribune that labeled Trinity Unity as ’a bunch of crackpot black supremacists.’ He said that if any of us wanted to respond to that charge or invite the columnist to attend service and see for himself, that the address for letters to the editor was in the bulletin. As I recall, none of the churches I ever attended were subjected to negative editorials in the daily paper. Yet, aside from some peculiarities, such as church dancers, everything seemed pretty much like any other Christian service I’ve attended. I was welcomed, told to put my faith in God, reminded of the sacrifice of Jesus, asked to help keep others in the flock on the path of virtue, urged to be a better person, and invited back the next week."

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The Obama campaign projections showed the most likely outcome of Tuesday's elections will be that Clinton gained 187 delegates and Obama gained 183. That's a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted. If you add these numbers to the CNN figures, the total pledged delegate count now stands at Obama 1,348 and Clinton 1,197. However, if you compare these numbers to all the networks and news agencies, you will see minor differences because each organization has different projections.

Now let's look at superdelegates, delegates that are not determined by voting in state primaries and caucuses, and are not pledged to either candidate. There are 796 superdelegates, which mostly include currently elected democratic officials from the Senate and House, Governors, Mayors and others like Al Gore. Many have already publically endorsed candidates but most have not yet done so. According to CNN, Obama has been endorsed by 199 superdelegates and Clinton has 238. AP has Clinton with 241 superdelegates and Obama 202. Either way, that leaves more than 350 superdelegates uncommitted, a large enough bloc to swing the nomination should they band together.

If we add the committed AP superdelegates to the projected numbers we have going, that would put Obama with 1,550 and Clinton with 1,438. The number needed to win the nomination is 2,025. Twelve contests remain with 611 pledged delegates up for grabs starting tomorrow (Saturday) in Wyoming, followed by Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Guam, Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico. With the contests so close, even if she wins every state that is left, more than likely Clinton will not be able to pick up more than 60 percent of these delegates. Of the delegates that are left, 60 percent would be about 367 delegates, putting her at 1,805. If Obama wins all these states and earns the 60 percent, his total would then be 1,917. So unless either candidate wins the final states by a landslide, which is very unlikely, the 350 uncommitted superdelegates will determine the Democratic nomination.

A couple of more wrenches in the works are Michigan and Florida, which together have 366 delegates. These states lost all their delegates for holding primaries outside of the Democratic National Committee-approved timeframe. They moved them up on the calendar and the party didn't like it. There is talk about trying to figure a way for their delegates to be seated at the convention. It would be difficult to accept the current numbers of pledged delegates from the primaries held, because neither candidate campaigned in these states. As it stands, Clinton won both states, with 55 percent of the general vote in Michigan and 50 percent of the vote in Florida. Obama only had 33 percent of the Florida vote and his name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. They also may decide to redo their primaries or maybe hold caucuses. Whatever they decide to do, it will have a hugh impact on the election.

In June of 2006, Senator Obama delivered what was called the most important speech on religion and politics in 40 years. Speaking before an evangelical audience, Obama candidly discussed his own religious conversion and doubts, and the need for a deeper, more substantive discussion about the role of faith in American life.

"(Obama's speech on faith) may be the most important pronouncement by a Democrat on faith and politics since John F. Kennedy's Houston speech in 1960 declaring his independence from the Vatican," said E.J. Dionne in a Washington Post Op-ed on June 30, 2006. "Obama offers the first faith testimony I have heard from any politician that speaks honestly about the uncertainties of belief."

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Obama also laid down principles for how to discuss faith in a pluralistic society, including the need for religious people to translate their concerns into Universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate. In December, 2006, Obama discussed the importance of faith in the global battle against AIDS

"In the end, that's what this election is about," Obama stated. "Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

Quotes like this from Obama inspire us, and that's why we choose Obama. We want to be inspired, we want to have hope, we want change, an historical change. We want to like being Americans again… we want to love who we are and to be proud of being Americans again… a united America.

"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America," Obama stated. "There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America."

Just listen to the man. He inspires us, and we believe Barack Obama will take us there.

"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun," Obama stated. "Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."

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