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To: Seizethecarp; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; CynicalBear; ...
I missed this article till now. Interesting.

“He had to do a power analysis of each Catholic church,” said one of his mentors at the time, Gregory Galluzzo, a former Jesuit priest and disciple of the organizer Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama, Mr. Galluzzo said, soon understood the chain of command and who had influence in individual parishes.

The future president’s education included evangelizing. Mr. Obama often plotted strategy with the recent Catholic convert who had hired him, Gerald Kellman, about how to bring people into the program and closer to the church.

He was not baptized Catholic, priests said. But it was amid the trappings of Catholicism, according to his fellow organizers, that the future president began to express a spiritual thirst...he felt that need slaked by the prevailing black liberation theology... - http://nyti.ms/1h8yiXi

88 posted on 03/26/2014 9:00:42 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Yes very interesting. He received quite an extensive liberation theology education from the Chicago archdiocese, Muslim schooling and Rev. Wright to boot. No wonder we are in a mess with more to come.


89 posted on 03/26/2014 9:47:51 PM PDT by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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