No one really knows, but Tony Blankley‘s latest piece reviews a 1995 article by Hank De Zutter called, “What Makes Obama Run”. In that article, De Zutter reveals that Obama attended Trinity United and associated with people like Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger precisely because of their radical left wing views and the potential political power that he could derive from the “black church”.
True, when discussing Louis Farrakhan with De Zutter, Obama makes a point of repudiating anti-white, anti-Semitic, and anti-Asian sermons. Yet having laid down that proviso, Obama seems to relish the radicalism of preachers like Pfleger and Wright. In 1995, Obama didn’t want Trinity’s political show to stop. His plan was to spread it to other black churches, and harness its power to an alliance of leftist groups and sympathetic elected officials.
“So Obama’s political interest in Trinity went far beyond merely gaining a respectable public Christian identity. On his own account, Obama hoped to use the untapped power of the black church to supercharge hard-left politics in Chicago, creating a personal and institutional political base that would be free to part with conventional Democratic politics. By his own testimony, Obama would seem to have allied himself with Wright and Pfleger, not in spite of, but precisely because of their radical left-wing politics. It follows that Obama’s ties to Trinity reflect on far more than his judgment and character (although they certainly implicate that). Contrary to common wisdom, then, Obama’s religious history has everything to do with his political values and policy positions, since it confirms his affinity for leftist radicalism.”
Blankley has produced an excellent and revealing article that is worth the time it takes to read. Since we have so little on which we can base an informed opinion about Obama’s beliefs and policies, every little window into his mind and soul helps to reveal just how far to the left Obama truly is.
In one sense, Obama’s constant battle cry of “change” is correct. It seems increasingly clear that wants to radically change the foundations upon which this country was based. However, I’m not sure that the Constitution could bear his kind of change.
