Comments on: IRS Investigates Obama’s Church

by: D.R. Marvel

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:16:58 +0000

Freakin’ Daffodils???

Who’s ever tasted Daffodil & Potato Soup?

(And we won’t even contemplate “Cock-A-Daffodillie”)

by: joanr16

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:17:12 +0000

The UCC link that noonan provides is interesting. It has its own links to the IRS’s letter (so we know the exact accusations), a video and a transcript of Obama’s speech. In other words, all the info anyone needs to recognize that the IRS is playing games.

Their investigation will find nothing, but will have accomplished its true purpose: to link Obama’s name with violations of tax-exempt status. KKK-Karl, indeed.

Note for March 1st: if fresh out of leeks, daffodils are an acceptable modern substitute!

by: BPx3

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:21:35 +0000

Although I rarely attend services, I had the good fortune of being raised and confirmed as a member of the United Church of Christ (the “UCC”). Much to my delight, most fundamentalists think of members of the UCC as Tree-Hugging, Marxist-Lesbians, even if we happen to be male, heterosexual, and have neither read Marx nor hugged a tree. Through his work with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a UCC minister, Barry Lynn, has been fighting for years against the intolerance and basic stupidity of what is called the “Religious Right.”
See: http://www.au.org/site/PageServer

I was especially proud of the UCC when they invited SpongeBob Squarepants to visit the UCC’s offices after SpongeBob had been so viciously “outed” as a homosexual sponge by Dobson or one of those other fundamentalist wingnuts.

In light of the leading role the UCC has assumed in fighting against the forces of wingnut stupidity, my guess is that this “investigation” was instigated by one of the many sleeper fundie cells Bush has installed in the Executive Branch. However, on a glass-half-full-note, I think the whole thing is going to backfire in favor of both Obama and the United Church of Christ. I can see both receiving a great deal of favorable publicity as a result of this “investigation.”

by: maha

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:17:46 +0000

DR: Wow, and I’m fresh out of leeks. Also fresh out of hats. Maybe if I wore a leek around my neck it would ward off English vampires.

Anyway, Cymru am byth, y’all.

by: D.R. Marvel

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:25:58 +0000

Hey Maha…

Tommorow’s St. David’s Day…

Be sure to wear a leek in your hat…

by: fallenmonk

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:17:17 +0000

This is just the beginning. We can expect the GOP to try every trick in their playbook(which has Karl Rove and Lee Atwater’s fingerprints all over it) to try and stop the Obama tide. This is not near as ugly as it will get.

by: noonan

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:54:12 +0000

I’m UCC too. The chuch put up the following announcement about the investigation.

http://www.ucc.org/news/obama-speech-in-2007-prompts-1.html

by: kerryinalaska

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:19:57 +0000

Any one else smell that fat f*cktard KKKarl rover? If not him than some one just like him. Using the power of this country’s judicial system for political retaliation is wrong on so many levels that it’s hard to grasp that we are even talking of it. Good lord, doesn’t any of these asshats believe in the constitution? Are we so far gone that no one cares if justice is subverted for little boots games? This is not the country that I served, twice. this is not the country that I want my kids to grow up into. This is not my country. Our “leaders” are criminals, liars, cheats, sneaky bastards, and whatever else I’ve left out. This makes me mad. Really mad. Is it time to start action against our own government? How else are we to garner our constitution? Vote? LOL.

by: Doug Hughes

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:46:27 +0000

I agree there should be an investigation - into where the idea originated to audit the United Church of Christ. This did not ‘just happen’. Somebody asked for it originally, and their ass should be on the line for misuse of their authority.

On a moderately unrelated topic - misuse of authority. It looks like the FBI & DOJ (at the bidding of Congress) are going to do an investigation into whether Roger Clemens lied about steroid use. Give me a break! Bush liked his ass off to launch the Iraq war, what’s the death toll now??? And no one in Congress even questions the deceit that launced that fiasco. But a baseball pitcher will get hard time in jail for lyin’ about steroids.

If the terrorists get a nuclear bomb will they please start with DC?

by: Dave

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:56:58 +0000

The one I remember where the IRS investigated a liberal church was All Saints Church in Pasadena. See WaPo from 2005: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802501.html

But more recently they’re going after a Buena Park church for a Huckabee endorsement: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-drake14feb14,1,1061290.story

My gut feeling is that they are going after libs more often than repugs, but that would probably be hard to prove.