On this issue I think Carlson is being quite obtuse and foolish. Faith and spirituality have nothing to do with how often one attends church. I have conservative relatives who haven’t been to church in decades yet reference God almost daily.

I’d take it further and say that on most any issue Carlson is quite obtuse and foolish. But we know she was hired solely for her journalistic qualifications, and not because of her looks or religious/political viewpoints. Err…What?

Some people? You mean FOX! Gretchen I Promise GOd doesn’t love you.

Let everyone chose for themselves how they wish to believe in God or not to.

God existed long before churches did.

There appears to be little reason to believe Obama is religious. Pointing to church attendance is a simple, but not the only, indicator of that.

Obama feels that religion is the hallmark of the desparate and failing. Specifically, he has said “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”–thereby equating religion to guns, antipathy, anti-immigration, perhaps even racism (in the context of the original speech).

That said, it’s ok for him to exhort others to the means that comfort them. Just don’t pretend that Obama does this naturally.

Every time this woman opens her mouth something stupid comes out of it. I can’t believe that somebody with her credentials would degrade herself to such a level. Then again, I guess this is the American dream in action.

I have no problem with it, but I do find it a little contradictary, since he sat in a church where GD America was used. Oh i forgot, he didn’t hear that. I shutter to think what those who go to that church are praying for.

Michelle there are pastors who have called Obama the Antichrist and prayed for his death, so I shudder to think what those people are praying about.

Damn, Gretchen gets more hate (and coverage at mediate) for uttering one sentence than drug dealers who kill ranchers.

Religion can be a unifying force, but it can also be the catalyst for a great divide. With all due respect to the President and the former speaker, prayer isn’t going to solve anything.

What Obama really needs to do is suck it up and put in a call to Palin and unleash her on BP, and Palin needs to suck it up and work with Obama in reigning in a common enemy.

Me to Paul, that doesn’t happen in my church.

I think Gretchen spent too much time in the sun on her vacation.

Most of us have no idea what goes on in the churches of others, and casting judgment upon them from the outside is very easy. It isn’t always a black and white issue.

This is idiotic. Bush only saw the inside of a church when he went to weddings and funerals and he wouldn’t shut up about God. Where were you then, Gretchen?

But worse, what the morons at Fox & Friends take away as the big news story from a presidential address about energy and the environment is whether he should talk about God? Really?

I’m starting to wonder if F&F isn’t actively trying to take the title of “Most Idiotic TV Show in American History” away from “Tim and Eric Awesome Show.” Because really, they’re doing WAY too good a job of that for it to be mere coincidence.

I’m starting to wonder if people really think for themselves anymore, or they simply accept a headline on a tabloid web site as gospel and go off accordingly.

Religion is a competition where you keep score by how many times you go to Church.

And Gretchen is winning!

Amazing how one sentence can inspire so many . . .

Religion is a competition where you keep score by how many times you can mention God in the last sentences of a natl televised press conference. (was it 5 or 6?)

So I guess how one feels about a president saying “God” depends on whether or not they voted for said president.

Perspective can be ironic . . .

paulmdoro says:
June 16, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Most of us have no idea what goes on in the churches of others, and casting judgment upon them from the outside is very easy. It isn’t always a black and white issue.

Feel free to bring a camera into my church at any time. I wouldn’t be ashamed of anything that is said. Unfortuantely, Rev Wright likes to tape his “sermons”, so you can’t really say we don’t know what goes on in there.

That’s great Michelle. I am very happy for you and your church. That is one church out of how many in America?

“Religion is a competition where you keep score by how many times you can mention God in the last sentences of a natl televised press conference. (was it 5 or 6?)”

Who knows. No one gives a shit enough to count except for you righties.

Hey, aren’t you the one who said the story of Representative Bob Etheridge pushing a student was not going away and was gonna blow up in 3 days and be HUGE?

Well, it’s been 3 days! lolol

Paul, My point is that I think it’s appropriate and fair to comment on what is said in Rev Wright’s church, since it’s on video.

How many sermons are on video? How many have you watched? Obviously he said hateful, awful things, but he has been there over 20 years right? My mother was totally appalled and disgusted by certain things some Catholic priests said at a church she attended for some 30 years, but she didn’t leave (my parents moved out of town recently) the church.

Let’s just say I’ve watched enough to be outraged that our sitting president sat and listened to them.

Is this Obama clinging to his religion?

I’ve never watched Fox and Friends, but I read about it constantly on this site.
Based on what I read here, Fox and Friends is a piece of work.
Slyly presented anti-liberal daytime talk to indoctrinate a female viewership to the FNC philosophy.
Sounds pretty easy to see through.
But again, I haven’t watched the show.

But again, I haven’t watched the show.”

Your comments prove just that.

God, I hate this site.
See, I was honest enough to caveat my comments by TWICE saying, “I haven’t watched the show” and my opinions are based on what I read on mediaite.

How many opinions here are blindly vomited out by people who just say crap without being honest enough to note their biases or conflicts? Then again, if all news outlets noted their own biases and conflicts, the political discourse in America would be more honest, less vitriolic and less based on false or concocted information.

But we can’t have that now, can we? Instead, we get useless snark like the comments from notsofast.

I’ve never watched Fox and Friends, but I read about it constantly on this site.
Based on what I read here, Fox and Friends is a piece of work.

Surprising you would come to that conclusion, based only on what is “reported” on this site.

“How many opinions here are blindly vomited out by people who just say crap without being honest enough to note their biases or conflicts?”
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Too many.

And this comment marks the 30th one of its source based on one sentence uttered by a talk show host.

OOOPS, Newt didn’t follow the script.

How many is enough Michelle? Two? Five? How many hours did it comprise? And how do you know what he talked about with the president in attendance? Were you there? Should my mother have left her church after some priests made remarks that disgusted and appalled her? Or for many people is it not that simple, because their church has come to mean something to them, it’s vital to their life, a community they care about and depend on?

-0bama = 24k phony

That dude was just on there to plug his book. That was it.