At Cathleen Falsani’s blog, we find a more specific example of Obama contradicting his recent claim to Newsweek that he stopped attending services at Trinity United Church of Christ “for months at a time” after his daughter Malia was born in 1998.

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… GG: Do you still attend Trinity? OBAMA: Yep. Every week. 11 o’clock service. Ever been there? Good service.

Either Obama was lying then, when he wanted to tout his ties to Trinity, or he’s lying now, when he needs to plausibly argue that he was not in church during all of Jeremiah Wright’s most egregious comments.

UPDATE: A few readers argue that the above arrangement of the facts above isn’t inherently contradictory, that Obama could have stopped attending when Malia was a toddler and started attending again regularly by the March 2004 interview.

The problem comes in this other sentence in the Newsweek report: “After he began his run for the U.S. Senate, he says, the family sometimes didn’t go to Trinity for months at a time.” As noted earlier today, Obama launched his campaign committee in late June of 2002 and the campaign got in full swing in 2003.