Where is the "Christian" slant?
Every once in a while, Rev. Wright mentions the name of Jesus. That’s it. That’s the reason that Obama was comfortable in that church, lots of rhetoric, but little godliness.
I read this in an old article from last April, from the International Herald. Much of this article is identical to a NYT article, but they left out this part. I think that this tells much of the story of the relationship between Obama and Wright.
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It also helped give him spiritual bona fides and a new assurance. Services at Trinity were a weekly master class in how to move an audience. When Mr. Obama arrived at Harvard Law School later that year, where he fortified himself with recordings of Mr. Wright’s sermons, he was delivering stirring speeches as a student leader in the classic oratorical style of the black church.
But he developed a tone very different from his pastor’s. In contrast with Mr. Wright — the kind of speaker who could make a grocery list sound like a jeremiad — Mr. Obama speaks with cool intellect and on-the-one-hand reasoning. He tends to emphasize the reasonableness of all people; Mr. Wright rallies his parishioners against oppressors.
The article from which I took that quote (International Herald)contains paragraphs that are identical to the article that James Taranto was quoting from the NYT. I’d wonder if they were written by the same person?