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2008-02-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-02-04 09:37|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Obama's Church
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Posted 1/15/2008

Election 2008: Since we first drew attention to Barack Obama's Afrocentric church a full 12 months ago, other media have weighed in. And additional disturbing information has come to light.

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At the core of the Democratic front-runner's faith whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two is African nativism, which raises political issues of its own.

In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks.

It encourages blacks to group together and separate from the larger American society by pooling their money, patronizing black-only businesses and backing black leaders. Such racial separatism is strangely at odds with the media's portrayal of Obama as a uniter who reaches across races.

The code also warns blacks to avoid the white "entrapment of black middle-classness," suggesting that settling for that kind of "competitive" success will rob blacks of their African identity and keep them "captive" to white culture.

In short, Obama's "unashamedly black" church preaches the politics of black nationalism. And its dashiki-wearing preacher who married Obama and his wife and now acts as his personal spiritual adviser is militantly Afrocentric. "We are an African people," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright reminds his flock, "and remain true to our native land, the mother continent."

Wright once traveled to Libya with black supremacist Louis Farrakhan to meet with terrorist leader Muammar Qaddafi. Last year at a Chicago gala, Wright honored his old pal Farrakhan, who's fond of calling whites "blue-eyed devils," for lifetime achievement.

It comes as little surprise then that Wright would think Israel a "racist" occupier of Palestinians, while describing the 9/11 attacks as a "wake-up call" to "white America" for ignoring the concerns of "people of color."

Wright makes the Rev. Jesse Jackson look almost moderate and patriotic. Yet this is whom Obama picked to baptize his daughters, plus to act as his "sounding board" during his presidential run.

The candidate already has heeded his church's "nonnegotiable commitment to Africa," spending an inordinate amount of his campaign time on the Kenyan crisis, for one. Obama has close family ties to Kenya, and even founded a school in his ancestral village the Senator Obama School.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-04 11:15|| 2008-02-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Hillary, Obama, or McCain. Hmmm, this may be the first time since I started voting in 1972 that I do a write-in. Anybody here want a vote?

Posted by Darrell 2008-02-04 15:18|| 2008-02-04 15:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama's "pastor" is race-baiting nutbag, so yes it matters. And I've just about had it with the peoples equating McCain with Hitlary and Obama. I can understand the sentiment, however there's this little thing known as the GWoT. We don't have the luxury of conducting political theater. Make no doubt, the Dems WILL surrender. And while the donks are busying themselves raping our paychecks, we'll be losing every ally abroad. What nation would ever again sacrifice blood and treasure along side us only to be abandoned on political expediency? If you really want to go that route, then I suggest you write in Buchanon, cause that's where we'll be: a solitary, paranoid nation.

/rant off

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-02-04 15:58|| 2008-02-04 15:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Why Does Obama's Pastor Matter?

Sounds like it definitely matters. Note to self. File away for future reference under: Obama's pastor is a friggin nut case.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-04 17:07|| 2008-02-04 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 hey Darrell '#2'
Why settle for the lesser evils just vote for satan...

Posted by stupid old fool 2008-02-04 21:57|| 2008-02-04 21:57|| Front Page Top

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