xdavidwattsx, says:

I thought that was a good speech by Obama and hope that people can move beyond something that really shouldn't have been half the controversy that it was.

interestedcitizen, says:

The key thing to know about Obama is that he subscribes to Liberation Theology. Liberation Theology uses a Marxist analysis of history and Christian principles of "just war" to advocate a counter-revolution. It holds that the capitalist economic system is basically a war against human rights. You will hear words in Liberation Theology such as "economic tyranny," "economic slavery," etc. The Marxist analysis emphasizes the class struggle and proposes the means of government to achieve a desired redistribution of weath, or what the the Marxists call "equity." Government becomes the agent by which the Marxists seek to rob those who have acquired wealth through thrift, careful planning, family fortune, and hard work.

I could tell from Obama's website that he was a Marxist. When I went to the website of Trinity United Church of Christ, I could tell where he learned his Marxist principles, or at least got his Marxist biases reinforced. It is further significant that the Trinity United Church of Christ is one of the most radically liberal of so called "Christian" denominations in the United States. Go to the website of the church. See if you can find anything defining their core doctrines of God, Jesus Christ, the means of salvation, etc. You will not find any of the core Christian doctrines that you will find with other Christian churches. Instead, you will find a church that is almost exclusively dedicated to social action, with no clear teaching about whether the Bible is true or just a collection of folk myths and fairy tales.

This is not just about guilt by association. It is about plunging to the very depths of Obama's Marxist ideological roots.

"As a man thinketh, so is he." Obama is thoroughly Marxist. He is not centrist in the least. We don't need a Marxist as president of the United States.

xdavidwattsx, says:

"I could tell from Obama's website that he was a Marxist. "

Yeah, me, too! It's so inherently obvious! How do people not know that Obama has a poster of Marx above his bed?

Seriously. Give me a break. Who buys into this crap?

PS. Love the Daily Show.

bobdon000, says:

I don't know if Obama is a Marxist or not.

But he is a political opportunist. His Tuesday speech was a not-so-effective attempt to deflect us from his tolerances of his "spritual advisor" (Wright) rantings

In his attempt to do so, Obama had no compuction equating his own grandmother's very private actions to the hatred slurs repeated (often) by Wright from the pulpit at Trinity Church.

He's not about change. He is just another poltical gamer who wants power and is willing to throw his own grandmother overboard in pursuit.

bobdon000, says:

Rev. Wright's successor is Otis Moss, who now leads the Trinity United Church of Christ. Rev. Moss is, of course, well aware of the controversy surrounding his predecessor. So he should have been well prepared for his interview on National Public Radio yesterday. Still, he was unwilling to distance himself from Wright's most irrational and noxious claims, including the ridiculous assertion that the United States government created the AIDS virus in a laboratory to kill African Americans. Instead of denouncing such ridiculous claims, he tap-danced around Rev. Wright's "narrative."

bobdon000, says:

Barack Obama says that he wants to bring Americans together and get beyond the divisions of the past. So why does he continue to associate himself with those who seem to think it's a trick question if you ask them whether the federal government created the AIDS virus?

Obama is no fool. He knows that this is insanity. So why will he not unequivocally repudiate the unscrupulous demagogues who sow racial division by suggesting that white Americans are trying to commit genocide against black Americans?

xdavidwattsx, says:

I think Jesus would totally disown Rev. Wright. Isn't that what church and preaching is all about? Disowning people? Creating enemies?

A whole lot of hypocrisy here.

interestedcitizen, says:

Rawlins, First, let's make sure we understand the distinction between The United Church of Christ and the conservative Church of Christ you referred to. The United Church of Christ denomination was formed in 1883 as the union of some Congregationalist and Reformed Churches. See their website for their history www.ucc.org. They describe themselves as progressives. The conservative Church of Christ you referred to was formed in 1832 by followers of Thomas Campbell and Barton Stone. They were a group of people seeking to rediscover the authentic New Testament Church. These are two entirely separate denominations. One is ultra liberal. The latter still retains some conservative congregations. They are not one and the same. Do not confuse them. Robert McAfee Brown was a pre-eminent author and Princeton scholar who helped define the Theology known as Liberation Theology. He wrote a book on the subject during the revolutions in Central America in the late 1970s. It is he who said Liberation Theology uses the Marxist analysis of history emphasizing the class struggle and combines Christian prinicples of "just war" to justify a "counter revolution." Barack Obama's rhetoric is full of the language of Liberation Theology. Further, Trinity United Church of Christ praises W.E.B Dubois, an atheist, Marxist, Socialist, who renounced his American Citizenship in favor of Soviet Citizenship, instead of the avowed Christians Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. People who admire W.E.B. Dubois and use the Marxist rhetoric of Liberation Theology can correctly be referred to as Marxists. Barack Obama is a Marxist Socialist. He is not a centrist or a conservative. No true conservative, Republican or Democrat, should find hope in anything he has to say.