Obama's Radical-Left Ties Broad And Deep

CBS News/National Review ^ | 6-2-08 | Stanly Kurtz

[SJackson]

National Review Online: Senator Approves Of The Political-Theological Outlooks Of Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright

Having now left Trinity United Church of Christ, can Barack Obama escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright? No, he cannot. Obama’s connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep. The real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first place is that he largely approved of their political-theological outlooks.

Obama shared Wright’s rejection of black “assimilation.” Obama also shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of individual self-improvement and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” In common with Wright, Obama had deep misgivings about America’s criminal justice system. And with the exception of their direct attacks on whites, Obama largely approved of his preacher-friends’ fiery rhetoric. Obama’s goal was not to repudiate religious radicalism but to channel its fervor into an effective and permanent activist organization. How do we know all this? We know it because Obama himself has told us.

[SJackson]

Long, but a worthwhile read, and surprising from the MSM. Yes, it's National Review, but CBS is publishing it.

The conclusion, for those who won't read it,

MYSTERY SOLVED

So it would appear that Obama’s own writings solve the mystery of why he stayed at Trinity for 20 years. Obama’s long-held and decidedly audacious hope has been to spread Wright’s radical spirit by linking it to a viable, left-leaning political program , with Obama himself at the center. The revolutionizing power of a politically awakened black church is not some side issue, or merely a personal matter, but has been the signature theme of Obama’s grand political strategy.

Lucky for Obama, this political background is unfamiliar to most Americans . There are others who share Obama’s approach, however. Take a look at this piece by Manhattan Institute scholar Steven Malanga on “The Rise Of The Religious Left” and you will see exactly where Obama is coming from. Malanga ends his account by noting that religious-left activists often partner with groups like MoveOn.org and attend gatherings featuring speakers like Michael Moore. After the 2004 election, there was some talk of the Democratic party “purging” MoveOn and Moore. Far from purging its radical Left, however, the Democratic party is now just inches away from placing it in the driver’s seat. That is the real meaning of the fiasco at Trinity Church.

[Miss Didi]

Rush said today--Obama IS that church.



RUSH: Go back to May 3rd, Meet the Press, Tim Russert's show, here is Senator Obama talking about Reverend Wright and Reverend Moss.

OBAMA: He was my pastor, and he built a terrific church. I'm proud of that church. We've got a wonderful young pastor who's there, who's doing, uh -- continuing the terrific work that the church does, and that's my commitment. My commitment are to the values of -- of that church.

RUSH: Thank you, Barack Obama. Democrats have gotta be quaking in their boots. They'll never admit it, but this is just too good.

[Jeff Head]

Barrack Hussein Obama represents the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy within this country. His election would be the greatest coup any enemy ever scored against this Republic, and could well lead to the most horrific disaster this nation has ever faced.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[muleskinner]

Why is CBS publishing this? Not that there’s anything wrong with it. (I smell Clinton)

[VOR78]

-—My commitment are to the values of — of that church.

You know, I’ve really, honestly been trying my best to give Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt on all of this, not wanting to believe that a man could get so far as his party’s nomination for president of the United States while harboring such radical views, but that quote pretty much says all a person needs to know, doesn’t it?

The campaign ad pretty much writes itself. All you have to do is superimpose that above quote during one of those crazy pastor sermons on tape, and Obama’s campaign is FINISHED. And rightfully so.

[SJackson]

Why is CBS publishing this? Not that there’s anything wrong with it. (I smell Clinton)

The timing of all this, the Pfleger remark, and the Michelle tape speculation is perfect for her, the primaries are essentially over so she doesn't risk alienating any voters, but Obama hasn't captured enough super delegates to put him over the top. If you want to sow doubt, right now is the time to do it.

[Candor7]

Obama’s connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Stanly Kurtz is only about 2 years too late!

Obama is a neo colonial Black power nationalist who showed the Kenyan Orange Party " How we do it black American style,"by inserting himself into Kernyan tribal politics by campaigning for Odinga ( Obama's cousin)of the Muslim based Orange Party, segue to August of 2006! When Odinga lost the Kenyan election, it was a replay of the "Bush Cheated" technique, which resulted in thousands of displaced women and children, genocide in Nairobi, including the burning of a church full of Christians by Odinga supporters.

Obama is a loose cannon looking for a deck. And Americans would be stupid to give it to him, for we will suffer as we have never suffered before in the history of the United States. Count on it!

NOBAMA!

[Miss Didi]

This, too, would make a swell ad:


RUSH: In a shocking 2007 video, Barack Obama promised a leftist group that he would disarm the United States.

Obama Vows to Disarm America

[Malesherbes]

Well said. Not enough has been publicized about Obama’s involvement in Kenyan politics - on the side of radical Muslims who have specialized in burning Christian churches with the congregations still in them.

[GloriaJane]

Wow! And I was sure that CBS hated America. Dang! Maybe they don’t really hate America as much as I thought they did. They actually published this!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Obama is the Stealth candidate for the America Hating Liberals...who love Castro cand Chavez...This book talks aobut them:

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It’s difficult to imagine they are so blatantly antiAmerican!

See this :

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

And a review:

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By	Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.

[astounded]

Manchurian Candidate

[VOR78]

I don’t know which concerns me more, the fact that he wants unilateral disarmament, or the fact that 80% (if not more) of the morons in the Democratic Party agree with him.

However, I think that the part that should be obviously ridiculous to EVERYONE on both sides of the isle is when he says he will slow development of future combat systems.

If that is not an admission that he will make the US miliary less capable of defending this country now and in the future than it otherwise could be, I don’t know what is. That should have even the anti-nuke people up in arms. Alas, it won’t.

[True Republican Patriot]

WOW! THIS IS REQUIRED READING!!! Thank you for this critical post. This article(with CBS distributing!) shows B.O. HUSSEIN is a RADICAL FAR LEFT WINGER who embraced the Hate of Trinity UCC and is a key Leader and Supporter of the Church’s radical Black Theology. B.O. HUSSEIN wants to capture the Anger and use it capture his desired power and upheaval of American Society. B.O. makes Moveon.org look like a bunch of prissy old ladies! Terrifying!!!!!!
Send B.O. HUSSEIN to Kenya or Cuba, thats where he belongs! Venezuela comes to mind as well. China would lock him up and throw the keys away. :-)

[george76]

Was BO every baptised ?

Obama’s connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep

Plus Ayers, Resko, and...

[BunnySlippers]

Obama also shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of individual self-improvement and the pursuit of “middle-classness.”

Funny, since Wright is moving into a 10,000 square foot home in an almost all white neighborhood.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Dropping a link to Amazon:

Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference (Gateway Biographies) by Marlene Targ Brill (Library Binding - Jan 2006)

Now that is very surprising...no Reviews...

[True Republican Patriot]

RUSH! I propose OPERATION B.O. HUSSEIN is implimented immediately, if not sooner! The LOGO should incorporate the operation name and TWO BIG Oversize EARS with a RED Hammer and Sickle overlay. NO OBAMA HUSSEIN EVER!!!!

[Miss Didi]

Rush played an idiotic sound bite of Barry today on the surge not being successful. RUSH: Obama is a LYING IDIOT!!! He intends on playing that clip every day until the election.

[Vinnie]

From the article..

First, Obama rejects, “the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation - which helps a few upwardly mobile blacks to ‘move up, get rich, and move out. . . . ’ ”

Exactly what him and the Rev. Wright have done.