Obama’s resignation from Trinity United: What does it mean?

Barack Obama has run with Rev. Michael Pfleger for 20 years or more. He’s attended Pfleger’s sermons, directed government grants to Pleger’s projects and knows him well. This afternoon, after the video below surfaced showing Pfleger viling ranting against whites generally, not just Hillary, Obama belatedly “resigned” from the Trinity United Church.

I don’t think the resignation changes anything. Obama has lived with this kind of racist rhetoric for so long, it’s a part of him and his family. He cannot resign from himself no matter what he does with the outward symbolism of church membership. And it’s not his church, per se, that I have problems with. It’s the people who step to the podium and scream racist hatred. And the people in the congregation who cheer at the sound of it.

These are vile people — white and black — who hate America and want to do vile things to it. Their champion is Barack Obama. Obama has voluntarily run with them, helped them and won political office with their help. It’s who Obama is. He cannot resign from that. In my view, this disqualifies him from occupying the Oval Office.