Abu Wabu

Writing for NRO, Stanley Kurtz continues his illuminating investigation into Barack Hussein Obama's radical politics in "No Liberation", in which Obama's rejection of "assimilation" and his plan to harness “the politics of black rage and black nationalism” place him solidly at the outer edge of leftist radicalism and poised even to part ways with the Democrats if necessary, as he did in Chicago:

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.

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