There are good reasons to question Obama’s Christian faith. Andrew Sullivan quotes Obama’s account of his conversion at What OBama Saw. Now Sullivan reports that he is moved by Obama’s “pellucid” words; however, I was stunned to note that Obama’s conversion lacked any mention of God, Christ, love, or forgivenesss — the hallmarks of Christianity. Instead Obama converted to a liberation story of the Jews. All the language and allusions Obama used were from the Old Testament.
A month ago Sullivan launched a poll on AOL asking “Is Obama Really Christian? Yes/No”. 59% of Americans said No. Of course, internet polls are tricky, but I never saw this poll mentioned anywhere, so I doubt that it was slammed by some right-wing Christian group.
Stanley Kurtz wrote an article at NRO that is a must read for anyone who wishes to …you know…actually vet a candidate before they swoon over him. Andrew has gone completely over to the tingle, swoon, ecstatic shudders, fainting, crowd with Chris Matthews and some teeny bopper girls…for the rest of us…it might be nice if he would do something…like answer even prepared written questions about those distracting things…like his belief system and his worldview.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjRhNDQ4MGFlYjk0YzUwNDk0MzYyNTE1ZDkwYmNmNDc=
Some of the things Stanley left out of his article are the connections to Frank Marshall Davis.
A hard left Communist who mentored and inspired Sen. Obama and held a particularly angry and hostile worldview of America and our way of life, promoting the revolution and telling Obama to keep up the fight and to “remember his people”.
I really don’t see how this is that very different from Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan or Ayers and Dorhn. So, I am having some difficulty understanding the embrace…and simultaneous distancing. Which is real and which is Memorex?
And, of course….Sen. Obama sought to do just that…in remembering “his people”, as has Michelle…if we define “his people” as hard leftists and “not his people” as those angry, slothful, mean, religion clinging hicks from the sticks.
He not only sought out his most radical professors in college, who all seem to hold the Frank Marshall Davis, Ayers & Dorhn syllabus…the very core and essence of hard left/hate America bile…while a student he immersed himself in the tapes of Jeremiah Wright. He took them to school, studied them intently, mirrored the speech patterns and built yet another layer on his hard leftist background.
It is important to remember, why he took those tapes to school and began imitating, emulating, creating a verbal shrine to Wright…his new “mentor” “spiritual advisor”, (augmenting and replacing Frank Marshall Davis and the radical left professors). However, the deadwood media has no interest in asking any serious questions about this, or any other issue related to the belief system and worldview of Sen. Obama. That is an area that if even TOUCHED UPON…will ignite a fireball of bile aimed at the questioner…just ask Gibson and Stephanopolous.
When Sen. Obama returns to Chicago, Father Pfleger becomse an integral part of the unholy Trinity of hard left voices who form Sen. Obama’s inner circle of theo-political worldview shaping.
Father Pfleger, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan are of one mindset.
Wright’s version of Christianity and Pfleger’s version of Catholicism are simply Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam disguised and hidden by and through a Christian veil. You couldn’t separate them with a scalpel or scapular.
They have NOTHING to do with traditional Christian beliefs…in fact, the DENOUNCE traditional Christian beliefs as does the false prophet Cone who is the intellectually bankrupt leader of all three He is the Abraham of the three hate sects, more alike than different. Radical Politics are the foundational underpinnings…not religion.
Sen. Obama refuses to even RESPOND to any questions about Black Liberation theo-politics…yet, in his books, he defines his entire belief system sea change…by the joining of this particular church.
Odd that. One would think that the momentous transformation would be one in which he would be open, honest and free with his life changing epiphany…and yet…much like Jeremiah Wright himself…Sen. Obama wishes to keep this all on “deep background”.
Wright needed to be hidden from view, only to be resurrected, perhaps…AFTER the election. He foiled that with his narcissitic need for the centerstage and bright lights.
“Frank” was not willingly disclosed fully in his books, but kept on “deep background”.
The most radical professors at college are not named, although surely their influence must have been profound.
Father Pfleger has been kept at bay. Malley is not a “serious” advisor, Tony Rezco was a fleeting and distant relationship, Ayers & Dorhn he “hardly knew” at all, the Che Guevara poster “did not reflect” his politics, the flag lapel pin issue is a “distraction”, the lack of the hand over the heart is a “false issue”, Sam Graham-Felsen the Chomskyite official blogger hasn’t even become an issue at all, nor have his Nation of Islam staffers Jennifer Mason and Cynthia Miller.
His relationships with Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abunimah as well as the late Edward Said have yet to be vetted with any vigor.
Before we can suggest what type of foreign and domestic policies Sen. Obama might put forward, we might want to do something more than scratch the surface behind what sort of voices he has sought HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME.
Sen. Obama’s apologists and mistake cleansers…his “cleanup crew”…will RUN…full speed, from this inquiry. (see, ie comments on this thread) But his belief system is not only fair game…is it the raison d’ etre for his entire being and it would be patently unfair and a disgrace of epic proportions for the national metastasis deadwood media to engage in a conspiratorial coverup of that belief system. That is precisely what they are doing now.
It is up to the blogosphere to vet the candidate that the deadwood media is shrouding in that conspiratorial cover. To insist that answers about his worldview be asked and answers demanded of him as they would any other candidate who did not enjoy their conspiracy of silence.
Stanley Kurtz has had the courage to get on the right track. We must assist that engine and not let it die the slow death of being ignored by the deadwood media.
Sen. Obama may indeed have answers to these questions and it is only fair that we wait to hear what they are. But it is not fair to bury the questions and shroud the answers, and allow the deadwood media to steal this election for the hard left by their distorted coverage and intent to present a changing holograph of a candidate instead of a portrait.
