Obama's Radical-Left Ties Broad And Deep

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

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Go to www.usasurvival.org and see the two reports on Obama and Communism/Communist Party in Hawaii and Chicago. It will explain a lot of things about who influenced him throughout his life.

He was raised in a “Marxist-rich environment” and it has greatly influenced the way he thinks.

This is the threat - a stealth Marxist using the cover of religion, race (Michelle is the hitwoman on this topic), and “change” to bring about his own brand of marxism and disaster to America.

[Candor7]

We have to be careful though! We might put Hillery into the candidacy! LOL!

We have a lot of ammunition. Hillery's supporters ( at CBS) are using our dry powder!

Obama's activities as a radical in Kenyan politics are unprecedented for a sitting US Sentor. He should have been censored for it by the Senate.

[Candor7]

According to Freeper Beckwith Obama was not likely "baptized."

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No, there is no record of Obama being baptized.

There is much confusion surrounding the date of Obama's conversion. Some newspaper reports place this event in 1988. On Fox News, March 14th, 2007, Obama himself places this even in 1992.

Nobody, except Obama knows if his conversion to Christianity is real or not. Although some reports and even Obama have referred to a "baptism", there doesn't appear to be any record of a baptism.

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."

It seems that Obama's conversion occurred when he answered one of Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's altar calls by walking down the aisle of Trinity Church to make a formal commitment of his faith.

Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, writes, "He (Obama) described his conversion experience in his mid-20s, how he walked the aisle at Trinity United Church of Christ one Sunday in a public affirmation of his private change of heart."

"I came to Christianity through the black church tradition where the line between evangelical and non-evangelical is completely blurred. Nobody knows exactly what it means."

"Does it mean that you feel you've got a personal relationship with Christ the savior? Then that's directly part of the black church experience. Does it mean you're born-again in a classic sense, with all the accoutrements that go along with that, as it's understood by some other tradition? I'm not sure."

"There are aspects of Christian tradition that I'm comfortable with and aspects that I'm not. There are passages of the Bible that make perfect sense to me and others that I go, 'Ya know, I'm not sure about that.'"

"It wasn't an epiphany," he says of that public profession of faith. "It was much more of a gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which is wonderful. God bless them.... I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me."

The specifically political character of his new church is what drew Obama out of his skeptical isolation and into religion. Obama wrote::

"But as the months passed in Chicago, I found myself drawn to the church."

"For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of African-American religious tradition to spur social change . . . the black church understands in an intimate way the biblical call to feed the hungry and cloth the naked and challenge the powers and principalities . . . I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; it is an active, palpable agent in the world. It is a source of hope."

"It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and affirm my Christian faith."

In other words, Obama’s membership at Trinity UCC resulted from his familiarity with Wright’s political views. Even Obama’s phrase “challenge the powers and principalities” is a particular favorite of black-liberation theologists.

Falsani warns us that Obama’s walking the aisle at Trinity is poles apart from what Christians commonly refer to as being "saved, transformed or washed in the blood." In other words, it’s not to be confused with what Jesus called being "born again." As Mr. Obama himself explains, "It wasn’t an epiphany … but just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me."

In another account of this event, Manya Brachear, writing in the Chicago Tribune, describes the event thusly: "When Obama sought his own church community, he felt increasingly at home at Trinity. Before leaving for Harvard Law School in 1988, he responded to one of Wright's altar calls and declared a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Falsani wonders, "What kind of faith is it that is growing in Barack Obama? Is it the historic Christian faith? Not according to the good senator, who describes his faith as: (1) Suspicious of dogma (2) Without any monopoly on the truth (3) Nontransferable to others (4) Infused with a big healthy dose of doubt, and (5) Indulgent of and compatible with all other religions."

Unlike traditional Christianity, which Mr. Obama bemoans for its "call to evangelize and proselytize," the good senator’s faith is strictly a personal and private affair. Although he has no qualms about parading it in public in hopes of bolstering his political career, he would never dream of preaching it to others in hopes of converting them to Christ.

At the core of Obama's faith -- whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two -- is African nativism. Obama's having pledged allegiance to the Black Value System raises political issues of its own.

(Per Beckwith)

[browardchad]

Yes, most people won't read it -- like most of the commenters at CBS.

CBS didn't include the live links to the sources in Kurtz' article. Anyone who's interested can find those under the original title "No Liberation" at NRO.

[Louis Foxwell]

Let's get this straight. Obama knows that his goals and plans are not what the electorate wants so he is required to resign from his church and throw all of his friends and cohorts (including his grandmother) under the bus in pursuit of getting elected.
He needs to deny everything he believes in and everyone who believes in him to get the presidency. Then he will push through his socialist agenda quickly while no one is looking because he knows that the people do not want what he knows is best for them.
We have an elitist who knows he is an elitist insisting that the unwashed masses be required to do what he knows is best for them in spite of their unenlightened opinions to the contrary.
What remains to be learned is whether there is a preponderance of sane and reasonable voters or not.
If Obama is correct a majority of voters will elect him based on his desire to turn everyone into slaves of the state.
How much longer will we toy with catastrophe? Obama makes Hillary look like Churchill. How weird is that?

[Jeff Head]

The earlier influence of Frank Davis cannot be discounted and has not really been talked about too much to date.

I have his picture up on my "Obama's Circle of Friends," page.

Obama is an out and out marxist with disturning racial and religious overtones. As I say, he represents the apex of the hate-America, sapperd within the gates in our nation.

[patriot08]

Somebody needs to prove he was never baptised..

[patriot08]

Somebody needs to prove he was never baptised..

[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 to the general public, my dog will have a better chance of getting elected President than Obama will. He's already a dead man walking, but most Democrats just don't know it yet.

It'll be Hillary and Jeremiah's Revenge.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Barack Obama Can't Quit the Church, Because Barack Obama Is the Church

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Obama. We were talking about Iraq and the surge, and "it doesn't work," and my brilliant prognostication of a year ago in which I asked: What happens if this all turns around? Do you realize how they've pigeonholed themselves? And after all, folks, we're talking about the United States Military which does not lose (unless the Democrats are in charge) and the Democrats tried to secure defeat but they couldn't, because on this George W. Bush hung tough. Last Friday on PMSNBC (otherwise known as DNCTV) Morning Joe, Obama campaign strategerist David Axelrod was asked by Mike Barnicle, "Do you know whether Senator Obama thinks there's been progress made in Iraq?"

AXELROD: I -- think w-w-what he's -- what he's said is that there's been, uh... I mean he never disputed the fact that if you throw a -- a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can, uh, make a difference.

RUSH: Really? "He never disputed the fact" never? "that if you throw a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can make a difference?" Let's go back to January 14th of 2007, about a year and a half ago, Senator Barack Obama is the guest and says this about more troops in Iraq.

OBAMA: We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war. And until we acknowledge that reality, uh, we can send 15,000 more troop; 20,000 more troops; 30,000 more troops. Uh, I don't know any, uh, expert on the region or any military officer that I've spoken to, uh, privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.

RUSH: He's an idiot. He is a lying idiot! He says he can't find a general who will tell him it worked? Have you ever heard of David Petraeus, who is a general? It is working. A year and a half ago, he is dead wrong. He doesn't know what he's talking about. When he's put on the spot like this, and he doesn't have an answer prewritten that he has mermaid, he is wandering aimlessly in search of a thought. Axelrod said, "Well, of course going to throw soldiers at something, it's going to work." No! Just the opposite. Obama, in his own words: the surge is impossible. 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.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yeah, but who cares. As long as the media reports actual truths.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yeah, I’ve got this video for prosperity also. I hope it’s played often. It may be the most important video ever done.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Hussein has so much baggage it makes Hillary look nude.

[Pacothecat]

It’s The Theology Stupid!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbJBObc_BaM&eurl=http://www.nakedemperornews.com/

Watch the whole film: Part 1 2 & 3 to completely understand
It's not just Trinity that Obama Refuses to Denounce
it's, Farrakhan, Father Pfleger, Rev Otis Moss III,
Rev James Meeks, Rev Wright, Michelle Obama and yes even
Barack who embrace this racist Theology

[TribalPrincess2U]

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

Can I use your comment every chance I get?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I can’t stand that smug, elitist Kerry look.

[Jeff Head]

Please do...and use the link too. That information should be spread as far and wide as possible.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[True Republican Patriot]

Beautiful Post, Miss Didi,my ou each day post this on strategic and nonstrategic threads until this Idiot *B.O. HUSSEIN Disappears from the scene, known as the Demorat Bozo of the Century,not fit to pin medals Lurch’s butt cheeks. May B.O. make Dukakis and McGovern look like FDR in comparison to this dumboeared Duufus of an Idiot.:-)

[beckett]

My post on CBSNEWS:

When a leftwinger criticizes "John Wayne individualism" he's speaking code for "Everything inside the State; nothing outside the State," Mussolini's slogan for Fascism. If you want to see a real attack on the Constitution --- not the mere piddling stuff Bush has been accused of --- just elect Barack Obama to the presidency. His "collective" vision wants everything you've got, starting with your liberty.