Bob McCarty Writes

A Reverend Philips put the problem to him squarely when he learned that Obama didn’t attend services. “It might help your mission if you had a church home,” he told Obama. “It doesn’t matter where, really. What you’re asking from pastors requires us to set aside some of our more priestly concerns in favor of prophesy. That requires a good deal of faith on our part. It makes us want to know just where you’re getting yours from.”After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright’s church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for “Buppies”–black urban professionals–and didn’t have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity’s guiding principles — what the church calls the “Black Value System”–included a “Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.’”

“The crosscurrents appealed to Obama. He came to believe that the church could not only compensate for the limitations of Alinsky-style organizing but could help answer the nagging identity problem he had come to Chicago to solve. “It was a powerful program, this cultural community,” he wrote, “one more pliant than simple nationalism, more sustaining than my own brand of organizing.”

The paragraphs above — including five words I highlighted by using boldface type and underlining — first appeared in an article written by Ryan Lizza, senior editor at The New Republic. Though it appeared in TNR’s blog, The Agitator, March 9, 2007, this link takes you to a site where the article in question was reprinted 10 days later. Why? Because it appears that the article and the blog is no longer available at the TNR web site.

So what is newsworthy about the words above? Many things, not the least of which is the fact that Barack Obama’s pastor is, like the Democrat presidential candidate himself, a former Muslim.

I won’t go into all of the other frightening aspects of Obama’s rise to prominence highlighted in the article, I do encourage you to read the article and forward this post to others who you think need to know more about the man Lizza calls the “Kenyan Kansan.”

Hat tip: little green footballs.