Posted by
Howard Roark on Friday, March 14, 2008 8:31:13 PM
From the
WSJ Ronald Kessler Opinion piece.
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.
Wouldn't it be ironic that the reason that this black candidate won't get elected is because of the very statements made by this 'minister'?
I wonder if people are going to start looking for new nuances in some of Barak's old statements, not mention those of Michelle. If this minister has administered this kind of 'damn America' attitude to Michelle, her comments about not being proud of America until recently take on another light. By the way, how self-centered do you have to be if the only way you are proud of your country is if something only happens directly to you. I was proud because of the Miracle on Ice and I don't even skate.
As noted in Mr. Kessler's article, this church was Sen. Obama's first real involvement with organized religion. How is Sen. Obama getting a pass on an in depth analysis of his religion when Gov. Romney had to apoligize for everything that the Mormon church has and hasn't done. I was raised Catholic, so these one-off churches are inherently odd to me, so in the name of fairness I looked up Sen. Obama's church's website. From there you can start to get a feel for it.
The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:
- A congregation committed to ADORATION.
- A congregation preaching SALVATION.
- A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
- A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
- A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
- A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
- A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
- A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
Salvation; good, Reconciliation; nice, Disporia; what(?), Liberation; starting to get the hair on the back of my neck up, Economic Parity; Bingo-there it is- and I guess were throwing out the render to Ceaser what is Ceaser's. Come to think of it, the economic parity doesn't sound that bad. My wife is an Ivy League educated physician specialist and she doesn't make what Michelle makes blowing up balloons. Come to think of it, I don't know if the cardiologists in her hospital blowing up catheter balloons make as much as she does, especially per hour, though she may be a better bargain per balloon.
I think you can tell a lot about someone by what they read, so I checked out the Churches online bookstore. Not your typical Bible in many sizes and covers.
Randall Robinson is quitting America, and this book charts his journey from the most powerful nation on earth to the tiny tropical island where his wife was born. His search for a more peaceful and hospitable place grew out of the disappointment and increasing sense of abandonment he felt in the land of his own birth-an America that has sapped the creative energies of his race and "transfigured humanity."
Or,
The Debt also by Randall Robinson described on the churches website as:
In this powerful and controversial book, Randall Robinson makes a persuasive case for the resotration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. Drawing from research and personal experience, he shows that only by reclaiming their lost past and proud heritage can blacks lay the foundation for a viable future.
Interestingly, the church's website fails to point out a major focus of the book is reparations as noted in the
Introduction:
...America and other interests that profited owe reparations to blacks following the holocaust of African slavery which has carried forward from slavery’s inception for 350-odd years to the end of U.S. government-embraced racial discrimination—an end that arrived, it would seem, only just yesterday.
That Economic Parity directive starts to take on a whole new meaning. For some reason, I don't think that this is the 'Change' that Obamaniacs thought they were signing up for. So where are we now with all of this? Sen. Obama will continue to chuckle about his crazy uncle, without actually addressing and commenting on the church and the radical and racist positions.
The Audacity of Hope seems to be more likely Hope you don't find the Audacity.
-Howard