Obama File – 06/11/08
The Bear on Jun 11 2008 at 3:30 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Obama’s Loyalty to Liberation Theology
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In one paragraph—in one line—in an otherwise official-sounding communiqué, Senator Obama gives us insight into what he really thinks about what’s going on at Trinity. I consider it by far the most telling piece of information yet about whether his pastor problems have anything to do with his readiness to be the President of the United States of America.
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At the end of Fr. Pfleger’s despicable tirade, and to the sound of feral applause, Rev. Otis—Senator Obama’s new pastor—had this to say: “we thank God for the message and we thank God for the messenger”. If Senator Obama was waiting for good reason to resign his membership from Trinity, there it was, staring, yelling at us all.
Rev. Wright’s replacement—a man whom Senator Obama knew well and praised for his leadership just weeks before—was acting like Rev. Wright and even inviting another one of Senator Obama’s spiritual guides to come and act like Rev. Wright, too.
It all sounds so implausible. Could it be that a party’s presidential nominee could get it so wrong, so many times?
But as I said, none of this history comes close to the importance of the content of Senator Obama’s letter of resignation. As I said, one line in it was the single most telling piece of information yet about whether Senator Obama’s pastor problems have anything to say about his readiness to be president.
In their letter Barack and Michelle Obama direct themselves to Rev. Otis Moss, the man who just one week before thanked God “for the message and the messenger”: Fr. Michael Pfleger.
Their thoughts about the type of leadership the new pastor is giving? “We also have come to appreciate your ministry and both think you have been, and will be, a wonderful pastor for years to come.”
I’ll let others decide if Senator Obama’s letter of resignation from Trinity was a good political move. To me, on a very different level, it spoke volumes.
Some interesting Barack Obama supporters
Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency.
Is Obama off the hook?
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By Sunday morning, the media were depicting Obama as a knight in shining armor. All of the networks brought in Democratic politicians to comment on the campaign, and most of them dutifully repeated Obama’s principal talking point — that he left Trinity for the good of the congregation. Not a single network brought in a Republican for balance.
Obama’s Documented Lies: 50 and remarkably still growing
Obama WTF is the original, and most comprehensive, authoritative site about the life, votes, and positions of Senator Obama and his political backers. As his campaign is based on words… not on a proven track-record… if his words are not supported by facts, there’s nothing left but an empty blue suit.
Read the lies here from Obama WTF
Obama’s Revisionist History
This week’s minor controversy about Barack Obama’s claim that an uncle liberated Auschwitz was quickly put to rest by his campaign. They conceded that it was a great uncle whose unit liberated Buchenwald, 500 miles away.
But other, much more troubling, episodes have provided a revealing glimpse into a candidate who instinctively resorts to parsing, evasions and misdirection. The saga over Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Exhibit A. In just 62 days, Americans were treated to eight different explanations.
Read more from The Wall Street Journal
The company Obama has kept By Rod Dreher
Forty years ago this month, Paris exploded in left-wing student riots that led to a nationwide general strike. The revolutionary fervor of France’s soixante-huitards (’68ers) spread widely, including to American campuses. If you’re wondering when the Good ’60s of peace, love and civil rights gave way to the Bad ’60s of anarchy and violence, May 1968 is as good a historical pivot point as any.John McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton at the time.
Barack Obama was 6 years old. Yet the restless spirit of ’68 haunts this year’s presidential campaign, especially the White House bid of Mr. Obama, who, having pretty much missed the ’60s – “Civil rights, sexual revolution, Vietnam War. Those all sort of passed me by,” he told The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan last year – was supposed to take us beyond those divisive traumas.
It’s not working out that way. His former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an unreconstructed ’60s radical, a fire-breathing disciple of James Cone’s period-piece black liberation theology. Mr. Obama wrote in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, about his attraction to the leftist pastor’s church as a vehicle for social change. If black nationalism would uplift the race, he wrote, “then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.”
That’s a remarkable admission of a racialized “ends justify the means” morality. It helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to stick with a crackpot like Dr. Wright. It also might explain why an up-and-coming Barack Obama found nothing particularly wrong with rubbing political elbows with Bill Ayers, the Chicago university professor and onetime fugitive member of the revolutionary, communist Weather Underground.
It’s not “guilt by association” to inquire…
Obama’s Close Friend, Mentor, Home Financier, and Neighbor Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
Playing Obama Roulette with the nation’s security just doesn’t seem like a good idea. Usually the parties nominate two candidates with differences, but neither of whom seem obviously radical or surrounded by radicals or corrupt people.
The sole exception was 1972, and George McGovern was nowhere near as far outside of the political mainstream then as Obama is now.
Senator Obama is himself a radical –though one with a nice smile, beautiful kids and a marvelous eloquence– and he has a long list of radical friends, Now he also boasts a very close associate –his mentor and home financier!– just convicted of more than a dozen federal corruption offenses.
A vote for Obama isn’t like throwing the dice on him, or betting odd or even on a roulette wheel.
A Lapsed Principle
What happened to Barack Obama’s promise to rely on public financing in the general election?
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