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June 2, 2008

Obama Smackdown: 'Obama Left The Church But He's Still Left'

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In Stanley Kurtz's piece at NRO today we're reminded of what Obama's true political-theological views and that the connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright run broad and deep. Barack Hussein may have now left Trinity United Church of Christ, but he can't escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright. The real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first place is that he largely approved of their political-theological outlooks, and the degree of his approval is astonishing:

[...] 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.

A Revealing Profile

Although it's been discussed before (because it confirms that Obama attended Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March), a 1995 background piece on Obama from the Chicago Reader has received far too little attention. Careful consideration of this important profile makes it clear that Obama's long-standing ties to Chicago's most rabidly radical preachers call into question far more than Obama's judgment and character (although they certainly do that, as well). Obama's two-decades at Trinity open a critically important window onto his radical-left political leanings. No mere change of church membership can erase that truth.

By providing us with an in-depth picture of Obama's political worldview on the eve of his elective career, Hank De Zutter's, "What Makes Obama Run?" lives up to its title. The first thing to note here is that Obama presents his political hopes for the black community as a third way between two inadequate alternatives. First, Obama rejects, "the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation -- which helps a few upwardly mobile blacks to 'move up, get rich, and move out. . . . ' " This statement might surprise many Obama supporters, who seem to think of him as the epitome of integrationism. Yet Obama's repudiation of integrationist upward mobility is fully consistent with his career as a community organizer, his general sympathy for leftist critics of the American "system," and of course his membership at Trinity. Obama, we are told, "quickly learned that integration was a one-way street, with blacks expected to assimilate into a white world that never gave ground." Compare these statements by Obama with some of the remarks in Jeremiah Wright's Trumpet, and the resemblance is clear.

Continue reading, "No Liberation": Obama may have left Trinity, but he's still on the Left...

When Kurtz says Obama's true political-theological views and connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright run broad and deep, he does indeed mean very broad and very deep. Barack Hussein Obama is unquestionably, a radical left racist and socialist hiding his true agenda. As Kurtz notes in the closing of his piece, 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.

Posted by Richard at June 2, 2008 3:40 PM

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