Posted on 05/03/2008 12:53:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
What led Obama to Wright's church How a man of ambition found connections at Chicago's Trinity
By Christi Parsons and Manya A. Brachear
Tribune reporters
3:31 AM CDT, May 3, 2008 Click here to find out more!
The day Barack Obama first showed up in the office of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., more than 20 years ago, the pastor warned him that getting involved with Trinity United Church of Christ might not be "a feather in your cap."
Obama was a community organizer trying to build support for his group on the South Side of Chicago, and a friendly minister at another church had suggested he'd have more luck with black clergy if he joined a congregation himself.
"Some of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about," Wright told him that day, as Obama would later recount it. "They feel like we're too radical. Others, we ain't radical enough."
Obama ended up joining, a story he tells in his memoirs, and later was influenced enough by Wright to derive the title of a subsequent book, "The Audacity of Hope," from one of the pastor's sermons.
But despite the warning, the association did not seem to be a terribly risky one for Obama, given the arc of the career he was beginning to craft even then.
He was building his résumé as a street-savvy community organizer while also applying for admission to law school. Within the walls of Trinity he found a connection to the African-American community he'd lacked as a child raised by his white mother and grandparents, an important cultural marker for a biracial candidate who later would try to appeal to black and white voters alike.
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Marxist, victimology.. The need for other peoples money and to blame personal faults on other people.. AND to hang with others with the same NEEDS...
What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?
What a load of crap.
What exactly do you suppose a community organizer is?
It is a Marxist sucking at the government teat.
Let me rephrase and quantify that statement so Obama can't get away with the vague liberal construct of "some" and "others:"
"99.99% of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about," Wright told him that day, as Obama would later recount it. "They feel like we're too radical. For 00.01%, we ain't radical enough."
I thought it was Obama’s co-worker Mike Kruglik who steered Obama to Jerimiah Wright’s church. No mention of Marxist Commi Kruglik here.
Oh, so in other words, he KNEW right from the start what racist Wright and his racist church was all about, and he didn't consider it was a 'risk' to his political career, which at that point didn't even exist. In fact, it was on the same course where Obama himself was heading, building a political career using racism, white hatred to fuel his rise to political power.
How nice of him to admit it.
"'Coz that's where the money is!"
“What exactly do you suppose a community organizer is?”
It sounds like plumbing terminology. Maybe the “community organizer” is where all the sewage from a certain neighborhood flows to!
CinQue of the Symbionese Liberation Army "organized" truckloads of food for the poor while he had Patty Hearst tied up in a clost.
What I have been wondering is how a “community organizer” gets paid. Who pays them for all their “organizing”? I have never seen a wanted ad for such a job title.
I would suspect they are paid with grants from charitable organizations or the government. Soros probably has a couple hundred working for him.
I will make a typical white statement here ...
Obama is the typical black male .. ruled and directed by women all his life.
That 1 100th of 1% are interested in human sacrifice on their altars. Even Wright has not been able to figure out how to get to the left of that group.
So now we know that Obama considered Trinity the most extreme church in Chicago from his initial contact.
My wife grew up in the UCC Church and we know it intimately. It is a cult - a blend of secular humanism, liberal politics and Christianity. It does not teach or believe in the Scriptures and is definitely not Christian.
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