Still more on the Obama church search

Well this is an interesting twist on the story of the Obama family search for a church home: as Politico is reporting, the President-elect is suggesting that they are looking for a neighborhood church, rather than choosing among the larger downtown D.C. churches:

Barack Obama hinted in an interview on “This Week” on Sunday that he might choose a church outside the marble-monuments.

The church may not be in the “company town” part of D.C. but instead in one of the District’s neighborhoods facing “enormous challenges,” he said. He said he and wife Michelle would visit different churches to see what’s comfortable but suggested that his goal on this and other matters will be, “to see if we can bring those two Washington D.C.s together.”

Read it all here.

Here is the relevant excerpt from the interview:

STEPHANOPOULOS: So, do you have a church here in Washington?

OBAMA: Not yet. And so, one of the things that Michelle and I will be doing is probably visiting some churches and seeing what’s comfortable.It is tougher as president. You know, this is not just an issue of going to church, it’s an issue of going anywhere. You don’t want to subject your fellow church members, the rest of the congregation, to being magged every time you go to church. And so, we’re going to try to be balancing, not being disruptive to the city, but also saying we want to be part of Washington D.C.

But one of the things that I don’t like historically about Washington is the way that you’ve got one part of Washington, which is a company town, all about government, and is generally pretty prosperous. And then, you’ve got another half of D.C. that is going through enormous challenges. I want to see if we can bring those two Washington D.C.s together.

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