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Birds of a feather
"I want to make absolutely clear that I do not subscribe to the views that he expressed," Obama said. "I believe they are wrong."
Obama said he and Jeremiah Wright were at cross-purposes. "Wright's remarks certainly don't portray accurately my values and beliefs," said Obama. But if he was being honest, Obama would have said that he agreed 100% with what Wright said, just not how he said it.
Anthony Bradley, PhD, a black man that holds a BS in biological sciences from Clemson University, a Master of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Westminster Theological Seminary and who is now Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, has this to say:
"One of the pillars of Obama's home church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is 'economic parity.' On the website, Trinity claims that God is not pleased with 'America's economic mal-distribution.' Among all of controversial comments by Jeremiah Wright, the idea of massive wealth redistribution is the most alarming. The code language 'economic parity' and references to 'mal-distribution' is nothing more than channeling the twisted economic views of Karl Marx.
"Black Liberation theologians have explicitly stated a preference for Marxism as an ethical framework for the black church because Marxist thought is predicated on a system of oppressor class (whites) versus victim class (blacks).
"Black Liberation theologians James Cone and Cornel West have worked diligently to embed Marxist thought into the black church since the 1970s.
"For Cone, integrating Marx into black theology helps theologians see just how much social perceptions determine theological questions and conclusions. Moreover, these questions and answers are 'largely a reflection of the material condition of a given society.'
"Perhaps it is the Marxism imbedded in Obama's attendance at Trinity Church that should raise red flags. 'Economic parity' and 'distribution' language implies things like government-coerced wealth redistribution, perpetual minimum wage increases, government subsidized health care for all, and the like."
Sound familiar? On July 18, 2007, speaking in Washington, candidate Obama said this:
"When I'm President, I will raise the minimum wage and make it a living wage by making sure that it rises every time the cost of living does. I'll start letting our unions do what they do best again - organize our workers and lift up our middle-class. And I'll finally make sure every American has affordable health care that stays with you no matter what happens by passing my plan to provide universal coverage and cut the cost of health care by up to $2500 per family."
And this 1960's-style rhetoric about poverty that followed was a dead giveaway about how the left speaks in code words to mask their true intent:
"The philosophy behind the project is simple - if poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence; failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works."
A year or so later, do you remember Joe the Plumber and what Obama said to him?
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Good for everybody. Spread the wealth around. Even now, one of Obama's highest priorities is to dole out welfare payments (albeit disguised as tax cuts) to the poor (who pay no taxes) while he raises the rate on small businesses and those that already shoulder the largest portion of the tax burden. Is this "fair"? Is this America?
Folks, redistributing wealth is a classic tenet of Marxist philosophy ... in fact the Marxist doctrine relies on a commonality between all. There is no difference in persons; the difference is between the government elite and the commoners.
The commoner are ruled by government. Marxism dictates that the common people have a common destiny and that all should share equally. But only the common people are forced to share (socialized medicine, socialized production of consumer goods, etc) whereas the government elite can take as much as they want, whenever they want it.
The Investor's Business Daily described the Obama/liberal agenda as follows:
"It starts with a tax system right out of Marx: A massive redistribution of income - from each according to his ability, to each according to his need - all in the name of 'neighborliness,' 'patriotism,' 'fairness' and 'justice.'
"It continues with a call for a new world order that turns its back on free trade, has no problem with government controlling the means of production, imposes global taxes to support continents where our interests are negligible, signs on to climate treaties that will sap billions more in U.S. productivity and wealth, and institutes an authoritarian health care system that will strip Americans' freedoms and run up costs.
"All the while, it ensures that nothing - absolutely nothing - will be done to secure a sufficient, terror-proof supply of our economic lifeblood - oil - a resource we'll need much more of in the years ahead."
The tenets of Black Liberation Theology as preached by Reverend Wright and practiced by Obama were originally intended to help the black community. But in the hands of a smooth-talker like Obama, it will hurt us all by promoting a thinly-veiled brand of Marxism which will ultimately lead to more oppression for blacks as well as whites.
The failed "War on Poverty" should have taught us that the best way to keep the disadvantaged enslaved to government was to seduce them into thinking that in a free society upward mobility is someone else's responsibility.
Over the past eight years, a number of Americans have abused the system. Crooks and thieves on the Hill and up and down Wall Street have squandered our wealth and pillaged our bank accounts. Republicans, democrats and corporate executives alike are all guilty of greed and corruption.
The American way is to punish the guilty; not - as the Obama administration seems to prefer - to punish initiative and ingenuity. It is not "patriotic" to pay more taxes or in misguided Robin Hood fashion to take from the rich and give to the poor. In these tough economic times, the last thing we should do is to hurt our producers or impose restrictive taxes on the very people that provide the jobs.
Winston Churchill wisely said, "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
Obama and his leftist supporters are taking us down a dangerous road. Thirty percent of our GDP now flows through government - more taxes, bigger government; more encroachment on our freedoms, more economic misery. It's "change" all right. Change that according to recent polls, more and more Americans don't believe in and aren't buying.