Posted on 05/01/2008 6:29:38 PM PDT by neverdem
In his achingly slow steps toward repudiating the repugnant words of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has run the risk of serious political damage by leaving vague what it was that attracted him to this outspoken critic of American society.
In the rational part of Wright's appearance Monday at the National Press Club, before he got to the self-justification and the denunciations of our government and the nation's values, Wright offered clues to the answer to that question. They came in the form of his succinct interpretation of the historic goals of the black church.
These can be boiled down, he said, to three words: liberation, transformation and reconciliation.
To Wright, liberation means more than opposing oppression in all its forms. It also encompasses freeing oneself from any feelings of inferiority or superiority and recognizing that "being different does not mean one is deficient."
Transformation, in his terms, is all-encompassing: "Changed lives, changed minds, changed laws, changed social orders and changed hearts in a changed world."
Reconciliation, he concluded, "means we embrace our individual rich histories, all of them. We retain who we are as persons of different cultures, while acknowledging that those of other cultures are not superior or inferior to us. They are just different from us."
Anyone who has heard Obama's speeches in this campaign will recognize these three concepts as the roots of the senator's thinking and the guiding principles of his life.
Liberation explains the young Obama's decision to take his first job as a community organizer, helping poverty-stricken people on the South Side of Chicago, and similar efforts that have marked his work in the Illinois Legislature and the U.S. Senate.
Transformation is a fancy way of describing the need for radical change, not just in policies but in the...
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That...and it was already Michelle's church.
Most of what's gotten Obama in trouble has come courtesy of Michelle. She was also the first known connection with Ayers & Dohrn (she and Dohrn both worked at the same law firm in 1988).
SnObama and his wife searched for an appropriate church. They found it. They spent 20 years there. They brought up their children with the philosophy of that church. No way the kids were brought up in such a way that they didn’t hear the hateful speech of this pastor.
The reason, the REAL REASON that these two were at that church is that they AGREE with the pastor. They didn’t just look the other way and allow their kids to get inundated with this hateful, racist, philosophy.
SnObama was attracted to Wright because they think alike - the same reason that he was attracted to his America-hating wife.
Socialists are unable to tell the truth. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. < /S >
“Barack will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
—Michelle Obama, Diversity Queen ($400k / year) and future Reeducation Czarina.
- Travis McGee post
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Yup - Michelle Obama said “The Wright (stuff) focus is over! I’m not going to talk about it anymore ! We’re going to ‘have a conversation with Americans’ and change everything!”
(some “conversation”! It sounds like a dictatorship to me!)
I assure you my friend, I have NOTHING good to say about a Klinton.
Barrack is either a maroon for taking 20 years to realise that his paster and Black Liberation Theology is racist, or is either a racist or condones racist speech himself.
CNN’s got Barak’s back.
But Wright’s got him in a headlock.
Wright, I mean right, lol, and it looks like his head’s about ready to come off!
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‘Nuther Golden Goodie Classic!
Now we need to think of a “Maa MicHelle!” animated .gif!
If you think of an appropriate type gif for her I can put her head on it.
Maybe it’s the same thing for Wright.
Of course he’s vague. If he tries to explain it, it will just expose more ties to the Hyde Park left, more associates with bizarre views or unsavory pasts tied to communist front organizations, or more likely both.
LOL!
Thanks for the link.
Thanks neverdem.
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain (barf alert)
[s/b Wright/Obama alert]
Scientific American | May 1, 2008 | Siri Carpenter
Posted on 05/01/2008 1:51:50 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009899/posts
In joining that church, community activist BHO gained the street credentials that he needed to embark on his political career.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
No communist is changing my life. I have fought them in war as have others here. The only thing a socialist respects is the barrel of a gun.
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