Radical-In-Chief: Truth Finally Comes Out On Jeremiah Wright Connection

News Real Blog ^ | December 31 2010 | Paul Cooper

[AliVeritas]

Neglected to add the legislative, monetary kick-backs and Hamas columns in the bulletins.

Not to mention the, er, same-sex goings on and murders.

But then, I could go on for days.

[AliVeritas]

Exactly.

[the invisib1e hand]

Righto. And in these parts, they call him an “Uncle Tom” anyway.

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The facts show that Obama never picked Wright’s church simply for lessons on Jesus and the Bible. He understood Wright was a champion of black liberation theology and had the connections to make things happen.

That's a false dichotomy -- either religion or ideology and nothing else.

The other, missing alternative is that he picked the church for the connections and the career help it would give him in the community.

I don't know why Obama picked Wright's church, but to leave out Obama's interest in personal career advancement is to ignore what's usually the biggest part of the puzzle when it comes to politicians.

[FlyVet]

Although they didn't dwell upon it for weeks on end, as they would have if Obama was a conservative, the alphabet networks all aired Wright's "GD America" speech for all to see. That should have been enough. But the American people put him in office in a landslide.

The conservative talk radio jocks are fond of saying "The American people are not stupid". It's a nice, populist thing to say. It's good for ratings, I'm sure. But, if we're not a stupid people, we do not come close to electing people like him. Or Pelosi, or Reid, or Frank, or Boxer, and on and on.

[RipSawyer]

“he was twice protected as an African American and as a lefty.”
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Teflon squared, beyond the wildest dreams of Dutch Reagan.

[PaulMCooper]

“The other missing alternative is that he picked the church for the connection and the career help it would give him in the community...I don’t know why Obama picked Wright’s church, but to leave out Obama’s interest in personal career advancement is to ignore what’s usually the biggest part of the puzzle when it comes to politicians.”

A major point is that he picked that church because he could use it to help his agenda advance - which of course includes his career. Maybe I just assumed that was obvious and should have spelled it out more. But it wasn’t just that Obama wanted his career to advance for personal glory. He wanted to advance so he could advance his radical ideology. They are connected.

Paul Cooper