It looks like the Big O. fooled us with his claim of being an infrequent attender at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s jeremiads vs. U.S. and all things middle class:
President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week.
This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments.
Sun-Times religion writer, now columnist posted the full interview at Belief.net, where she explains:
At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2004, when I was the religion reporter (I am now its religion columnist) at the Chicago Sun-Times, I met then-State Sen. Barack Obama at Café Baci, a small coffee joint at 330 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, to interview him exclusively about his spirituality. Our conversation took place a few days after he’d clinched the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that he eventually won. We spoke for more than an hour. He came alone. He answered everything I asked without notes or hesitation. The profile of Obama that grew from the interview at Cafe Baci became the first in a series in the Sun-Times called “The God Factor,” that eventually became my first book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People (FSG, March 2006.) Because of the staggering interest in now President-Elect Obama’s faith and spiritual predilections, I thought it might be helpful to share that interivew, uncut and in its entirety, here.
–Cathleen Falsani
In the course of the interview, Falsani asked if he still attended Trinity Church.
OBAMA:
Yep. Every week. 11 oclock service.Ever been there? Good service.
I actually wrote a book called Dreams from My Father, it’s kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.
Which church he had to abandon, as we know.
Blithe Spirit 
I don’t think that the truth, if published before the election, would have made any difference in the outcome. Obamania and the manufactured hatred of Bush were too high to have prevented any other outcome.
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Yet another journalist who has not the least interest in advancing the truth, whose only cause is promoting herself and her book. She didn’t even pay her candidate the decent respect she owed him. He would have stood up to this report and won anyway.
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He would have stood up to the report, by denying what he said in it? That is not considered a good out. Also, if what she’s saying is the truth, as it appears to be, she seems to be interested in advancing said truth. However, I don’t think that confirmation of his attending Rev. Wright’s church every Sunday would have kept our illuminati president-elect from winning the race … I mean, his relationship with Ayers certainly didn’t.
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