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Obama's Radical-Left Ties Broad And Deep
CBS News/National Review ^
| 6-2-08
| Stanly Kurtz
Posted on 06/02/2008 12:48:13 PM PDT by 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. Obamas 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 Wrights rejection of black assimilation. Obama also shared Wrights 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 Americas criminal justice system. And with the exception of their direct attacks on whites, Obama largely approved of his preacher-friends fiery rhetoric. Obamas 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.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; farleft; obama; radical; radicalleft; trinityucc; unfit
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To: patriot08; Beckwith; Candor7; Fred Nerks; Grampa Dave
Hard to prove a negative.
So far, BO never brings up his baptism.
We are waiting for some enemedia person to ask BO this question.
Ya, I know...that will never happen.
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posted on
06/02/2008 3:31:29 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
We are waiting for some enemedia person to ask BO this question. Ya, I know...that will never happen.
Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster and critic Andy Martin, when asked about Obama's baptism, wrote, "I have never been able to obtain any evidence that he was baptized, although I asked for those records."
The Obama File
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posted on
06/02/2008 3:34:27 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
('Typical White Person')
To: jpl
When that Michelle Obama whitey-hating racist video from T.U. that only a handful of people have seen but all of inner-circle Washington knows about finally gets released...Presuming it exists, which I hope it does. If Hillary or her friends have it, we'll know this week.
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posted on
06/02/2008 3:42:49 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
To: Beckwith
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posted on
06/02/2008 3:52:02 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: SJackson
Assuming that it is real, the Clintons don't have it, because if they did it almost certainly would have been released by now.
I believe it is real and I think the Obamas know that the Republicans have it. When he made him "lay off my wife" plea on TV a couple of weeks ago, he wasn't talking to the Clintons, he was definitely talking to the Republicans.
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posted on
06/02/2008 3:56:14 PM PDT
by
jpl
("Don't tell me words don't matter." - Barack Obama, via Deval Patrick)
To: True Republican Patriot
It will be my pleasure.
RUSH: We will hold onto this bite, and we will continue to play it at the appropriate strategic times to clearly illustrate: this man knows not at all from what he is saying.
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posted on
06/02/2008 4:06:59 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: jpl
The supposed videotape of Michelle Obama using racial epithets is beginning to take on the characteristics of an urban legend. If the tape exists, it'll be devastating. But if it doesn't exist, all the speculation about it among Obama's opponents, which can be seen as irresponsible and meanspirited, gains him sympathy points, and possibly votes.
Better to just refrain from comment, and wait and see, IMHO.
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posted on
06/02/2008 4:33:32 PM PDT
by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: SJackson; Jeff Head; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Miss Didi; Grampa Dave; george76; potlatch; devolve; ...
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posted on
06/02/2008 4:40:51 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: TribalPrincess2U
yikes - that’s a scary mental image!
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posted on
06/02/2008 6:53:26 PM PDT
by
sassbox
(New Jersey politics - home for those who aren't competent enough to make it in the mafia.)
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