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.

[george76]

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.

[Beckwith]

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

[SJackson]

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.

[george76]

Thanks

[jpl]

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.

[Miss Didi]

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.

[beckett]

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.

[PhilDragoo]

[sassbox]

yikes - that’s a scary mental image!