Posted by
Chris on Friday, September 05, 2008 4:12:25 PM
Joe Klein has an article on the Newsweek website taking umbrage at Giuliani's and Palin's "community organizer" shots at Obama, and tries to portray Obama's work as a mission of Christian mercy to the poor of Chicago. Well, maybe in Obama's mind, it was. We can't judge his heart. But several red flags came to mind as I read Klein's article. ACORN. The Gamaliel project. The radical-sounding, "liberation theology"-preaching Catholic priest, Fleger (not sure of the spelling) who starred in the follow-up scandal at the same pulpit where Jeremiah Wright had featured so prominently in the weeks before. I don't have time to write more just yet, but I'm going to look more closely into this. (These men of the cloth, thank God, may well be my brothers in Christ (I certainly hope so). And concern for the downtrodden is certainly scriptural. But their thinking has gone ker-plooey, concentrating on one aspect of truth to the detriment of the whole, lacking in context. They may well be more charitable than I. But they're also nutty. May God bless them, and keep them far from anywhere that they can do damage.)
So far, Obama is connected to the following: Wright, Fleger, Ayers, Dohrn, ACORN, Gamaliel (these last two are far-left organizations; ACORN is quite pushy and has been nailed several times for illegal and/or corrupt activities, and Gamaliel was described in the latest issue of National Review as a "stealth" lefty network that avoids the hippie clothing and PC buzzwords in order to quietly push a leftist agenda.) Given the company he chooses - people he describes as mentors (Wright) and respected community leaders (Ayers, the bomb-maker terrorist) - can you imagine the types of justices Obama would appoint to the Supreme Court?
Run, my friends. Escape. I've been in the company of "community organizers" of the type Obama seems to be. Great compassion, but with rational faculties clouded by preconcieved ideologies and an inability to see the long-term self-sabotage their agenda would produce on their desired ends. Let them teach us compassion, if that's their gift, but not political philosophy. Am I wrong? Tell me why. I'd like to know.