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Obama Team Directs Dirty Tricks: Just Make it Up! Posted: 28 Oct 2008 11:02 AM CDT Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook Amanda Carpenter, writing for Townhall.com on Oct. 27th exposes the release of a Democrat "playbook" of dirty tricks: Documents obtained by Townhall show the Democratic Party encouraged party activists to accuse the GOP of intimidating minorities on Election Day even if no evidence of intimidation existed in the 2004 presidential election. The tactic is being used again in 2008, this time to downplay fraud charges against a predominantly minority non-profit supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Obama campaign has been busily probing the festering issue of voter suppression. Obama Camp Charges... a Partisan Plot," the Wall Street Journal reports on October 17th: The Obama campaign charged Friday that John McCain, in concert with the Bush administration, has embarked on a studied effort to disrupt Election Day in many states and suppress the vote. Carpenter describes nine pages of a former Kerry-Edwards handbook titled Minority Voter Intimidation. After instructions on how to recognize "intimidation," the manual moves on to what to do if you don't find any intimidation: If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike." The manual said this should be done by placing stories in mainstream and specialty press "in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics" and "prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points." Some of the suggested talking points included lines like "Nothing is more despicable than trying to deprive any American of the previous right to vote, the foundation of our democracy for which so many have sacrificed." Well, you're probably saying, this was back in the Kerry-Bush election...nothing to do with today - well, you would be wrong, according to Ms. Carpenter: The Democrats' preemptive strike has been delivered from Barack Obama's legal team this time around. Nevermind all that. The Obama legal team has once again leaned on the Department of Justice to get the McCain campaign straightened out. Obama attorney Robert Bauer accuses "agents of the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee of: ...striking locally at election officials and boards around the country, sowing confusion and seeking through baseless legal maneuvers... and specifically, Obama et al takes offense at this: McCain's remarks that ACORN's voter registration fraud "threatens the fabric of our Democracy" and Palin's assessment that there is a "choice between a candidate who won't disavow a group committing voter fraud and a leader who won't tolerate voter fraud." Carpenter reports that former U.S. Senators Danforth and Rudman are heading-up a committee on behalf of the McCain campaign to "take action against voter fraud. The GOP, reportedly, has asked Obama 08 to participate, no surprise: "the Democrats had declined."

Nicolas Sarkozy Says Obama's Position On Iran Is 'Utterly Immature' Posted: 28 Oct 2008 09:50 AM CDT I think many of us said quite the same thing as it is being reported Nicolas Sarkozy is saying about Barack Obama's stance on Iran. During the Democratic primaries, a YouTube questioner asked the Democratic candidates a question, I am putting the video of that question and the answer below so people can see for themselves exactly what Barack Obama said, despite his trying to "qualify" his statement later when he received criticism for his original answer. YouTube URL for video above, here. Text: QUESTION: In 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that has lasted ever since. In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries? COOPER: I should also point out that Stephen is in the crowd tonight. Senator Obama? OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous. (APPLAUSE) Now, Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire. And the reason is because they understood that we may not trust them and they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we had the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward. And I think that it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them. We've been talking about Iraq -- one of the first things that I would do in terms of moving a diplomatic effort in the region forward is to send a signal that we need to talk to Iran and Syria because they're going to have responsibilities if Iraq collapses. It does bear mentioning that according to the transcript of that debate, directly after Obama made that statement, Hillary Clinton was asked the same question and her answer was much more realistic. Page 14, found here, you can see Hillary's answer. Which brings us to today's report, in which sources tell Haaretz that Nicolas Sarkozy, in closed forums in France, has stated that Barack Obama's stance regarding Iran is "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content." Obama visited Paris in July, and the Iranian issue was at the heart of his meeting with Sarkozy. At a joint press conference afterward, Obama urged Iran to accept the West's proposal on its nuclear program, saying that Iran was creating a serious situation that endangered both Israel and the West. According to the reports reaching Israel, Sarkozy told Obama at that meeting that if the new American president elected in November changed his country's policy toward Iran, that would be "very problematic." Until now, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany have tried to maintain a united front on Iran. But according to the senior Israeli source, Sarkozy fears that Obama might "arrogantly" ignore the other members of this front and open a direct dialogue with Iran without preconditions. Following their July meeting, Sarkozy repeatedly expressed disappointment with Obama's positions on Iran, concluding that they were "not crystallized, and therefore many issues remain open," the Israeli source said. Advisors to the French president who held separate meetings with Obama's advisors came away with similar impressions and expressed similar disappointment. Obama speaks well, there is no doubt about it, he gives good speeches, admitted. Whether those speeches actually represent reality is another thing and one his supporters do not seem to ask themselves at all. Sarkozy uses words like "arrogant" and "unilateral" when speaking about Obama and that is exactly right. Obama is like a child that can see no further than what he wants, what he thinks the world should be like rather than seeing what the world, especially our enemies are like. America's allies understand this and it shows an incredible contrast when you see someone who is one of our most staunch allies, like France's President Sarkozy, making statements like that, Israel showing preference for McCain, while those not our allies, such as the Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah to name just two, overwhelmingly want Obama to win this election. The contrast there should make people stop and look closely at the reasoning. .

Media Matters 1: The Media is Not Getting The Message Posted: 28 Oct 2008 09:30 AM CDT This past weekend was Media Democracy Day in at least three Canadian cities. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver held day long workshops. Media democracy sounds like an oxymoron, especially in the last few frenetic days of the US election, but the goals of this group appear lofty enough: Is the mainstream media democratic? Media Democracy Day For the rest, go here to NewsBlaze.

"Get in their faces": Your Parents Posted: 27 Oct 2008 10:29 PM CDT Just when I thought the Obama campaign couldn't sink any lower? I find this via Little Green Footballs. They call it "political cynicism". I am speechless.... The Obama campaign's attempted use of children to influence their parents is absolutely open and blatant. Why doesn't this outrage people? This is political cynicism of an amazing degree. Barack Obama | Change We Need | The Talk. Do's & Don'ts Do share your personal reasons for voting for Barack Obama; Do have confidence — your opinion matters to people who care about you; Do read up on Barack's positions on the issues you know matter to them; Do find a good time when both you and they will be open to a conversation; Do talk to them in person if you live nearby, or on the phone if you don't; Do ask your friends to talk to their parents and grandparents as well; Don't worry about knowing everything about policy positions before you have this conversation; Don't feel defensive. Stay calm, cool and collected; Don't wait until the last minute — it might take a few conversations for you to convince them, so start as early as possible; Don't catch them at a bad time — make sure you have their attention and enough time to have a conversation. Unbelievable. And it gets worse. Ideas to Get the Conversation Started Approaching your parents about who they are voting for can be intimidating if you've never talked about politics with them before. But this campaign has been built by supporters sharing their stories about what inspires them and why they want to see change in this country. Here are some ideas for ways you can talk to your parents about why you support Barack: Call or ask in person if they saw the debate and what they thought about it. Tell them why you are voting for Obama and why it's important to you. Print out for them information on some issues you know are important. Share Barack's speech from the Democratic National Convention or Meet Barack, a video about who Barack Obama is, where he comes from, and what his values are. Email them and tell them why it's important to you that they vote for Obama. Think about their perspective. If they are Republican, or are concerned about Barack's policies, think about where they are coming from and what makes them think the way that they do. And they've produced a video to go with this outrageous effort: Go over to LGF and see the rest.I refuse to link to the original on Obama's site. There, they have a form you can fill in to share your experience about the "talk with your parents." UPDATE: And I almost missed this one, again from LGF. I am not going to give you an excerpt, but go see for yourself here: Obama Robbing the Cradle for Votes And if that isn't enough to get your blood pressure through the roof? Try this one on for size: Obama Compared America to Nazi Germany Politics | Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:10:01 pm PST The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of "redistribution of wealth" is all over the Internet and Fox News today (although most other media outlets are ignoring it), but there's another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice. The link to the audio is here: Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey. At about 15:30, Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to ... Nazi Germany. Yes, really. Here's the quote: "...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you've got World War II, you've got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home." There you have it. America is close to electing a President who compares his own country to Nazi Germany. (Hat tip: On the Mark.) Also from Little Green Footballs, via Knee Deep in the Hooah! Someone PLEASE make this insanity STOP!!!!! *cross-posted from Assoluta Tranquillita*

EXCLUSIVE: JOE BIDEN BANS YID WITH LID Posted: 27 Oct 2008 09:33 PM CDT Fresh off his upsetting interview with CBS3 in Philadelphia and the now famous interview with Barbara West in Orlando, Senator Joe Biden has banned blogger Sammy Benoit, the Yid With Lid, from anymore interviews with the Obama campaign. "It was an overreaction said the Yid, as soon as I mentioned Marx he flipped out. I wasn't even talking about Karl Marx. I just asked him what his favorite Marx brothers movie was and he got all huffy. He slammed down his hand and said YOU MUST BE KIDDING" Apparently the Senator from Delaware, mistook Benoit's movie question to the start of a debate of Obama's Redistribute the Wealth Tax Plan. "So I thought I would Change the Subject," Said Benoit, " So I said Do You like the Three Stooges? And Biden Gets Crazy again. Are you talking about Reid, Pelosi and Obama?" I was stunned I didn't know what to say next. Er, so Senator, I tried, the weather is changing, I bet you the changing Leaves in Delaware must be beautiful" "DID YOU SAY WEATHER Biden Screamed at me. All this talk of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground, is a desperate attept to deflect the Issues." "Biden really lost it when I tried to calm things Down. Senator Biden, I don't mean to upset you. Lets try something new." "NEW ! DID YOU SAY NEW? Now you are talking about Senator Obama's Socialist and New Party Ties? THATS IT I AM OUT OF HERE!" "And was it, he left the studio and I am frozen out" said Yid, "I didnt even get to ask him one question."

Why Obama Staffers Are Secretly Worried Posted: 27 Oct 2008 07:27 PM CDT From the Daily Beast hat tip to HH Publicly, he's acting like he already won. But behind the scenes, Obama's campaign is amassing lawyers and gearing up to counter dirty tactics on election day. Austin, Texas By Paul Alexander This week, Barack Obama has shown clear signs that he is confident he is going to win. But privately, top Obama leadership are still worried that Republicans might be able to pull off another improbable election night victory. Last week, in closed-to-the-press meetings, Obama officials briefed major donors about their concerns heading into the election's final stretch. One of those meetings took place in Austin, Texas—a city in the solid red state of Texas that has raised a surprisingly large amount of money for Obama, mostly from the city's high-tech community. "The Obama campaign has learned the lessons of 2000 and 2004. On Election Day, lawyers will be everywhere—all the way down to the county level." In Texas and other states, Obama officials are preparing for the possibility that polls may be wildly off because of the so-called Bradley effect. "The Obama officials are very cautious," says an attendee at the Austin meeting. "They want comfortable margins in place just in case. They are looking at three to six percentage points as a possible Bradley effect. Before they consider a state comfortable, they want it outside the polling margins. They think the Bradley effect could be as large as six—maybe even seven—percentage points, but they don't really know." Another major concern of the campaign is what they consider to be voter suppression. "The Obama leadership believes there is a systematic campaign," says the attendee, "by the White House and the Justice Department to suppress voter turnout across the country." To counteract the Bradley effect and potential voter suppression, the Obama leadership has amassed one of the largest legal teams ever assembled by a presidential campaign. The main goal of the legal team, almost all of them volunteers, is to guarantee ballot security. "The Obama campaign has learned the lessons of 2000 and 2004," my source says. "On Election Day, lawyers will be everywhere—all the way down to the county level. Obama officials point to the government's treatment of ACORN, the nationwide association of community organizations, as an example of possible voter suppression. The campaign has never relied on ACORN for its voter registration drives, according to Obama officials, and is viewed as only one of many venders hired by the campaign. Of the $605 million raised by the Obama campaign so far, only $800,000 has gone to ACORN—a number that could be much larger, and would have been had the campaign relied on it more heavily. But perhaps the most important asset the Obama campaign has is an army of workers estimated to be as large as 100,000 nationwide. Some paid staffers, mostly volunteers, the workers are being spread out across the country to states the Obama campaign is targeting. For example, 5,000 workers based in Texas—a state Obama doesn't expect to win—are being relocated to New Mexico, a state Obama believe he can win. Obama workers will be flooding into other battleground states in the waning days of the presidential race, among them Colorado, Nevada, and Ohio—perhaps even Georgia and Montana. What is impressive about this sizable operation is its very organization. By Election Day, campaign officials believe, they may have the most extensive grass-roots organization of any presidential campaign in history.

OBAMA Got Me A House In Ohio So I Could Vote Posted: 27 Oct 2008 05:39 PM CDT College news network Palestra.com has once again put network news stations to shame. Their latest news report show that Obama College staffers have NOT withdrawn their absentee ballots despite the fact that they are not legal residents. They have voted illegally in Ohio. One Bragging on facebook that "Obama got me a house in Ohio." Mmmmmmmmmm.... voter fraud encouraged by the political campaign. Oh wait, this is OHIO, the Secretary of State ALLOWS Illegal voting there. Watch this video below: Cross posted from YID with LID .

ATF Foils Plot To Assassinate Barack Obama and 102 students Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:59 PM CDT What do you expect from skinheads? Sickening. Disgusting. Rabid dogs that should be put down. Federal agents have disrupted a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate dozens of black students in Tennessee, the ATF said Monday. In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they broke up plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name. A source in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told FOX News that the two skinheads, who were picked up in Crockett County, Tenn., were plotting to shoot 88 black students and decapitate 14 others described as non-whites. The source said officials believe the suspects were planning to attempt an assassination against Obama. Read the rest. I cannot, for the life of me, understand the sickness that pervades the minds of these skinheads. Nothing justifies this type of racial hatred or sickness. H/T Memeorandum .

The Arizona Republic proudly recommends John McCain for president. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT Editorial from The Arizona Republic: Nowhere else in the country do voters know John McCain like Arizonans know John McCain. Voters here have sent McCain to Washington, D.C., on their behalf five times since his first election to Congress in 1982. As much as an electorate can, we know this man. We have seen the irascible McCain. The bawdy and irreverent McCain. And, yes, the temperamental McCain. Likewise, we here in Arizona have seen the former Navy pilot and war hero evolve - slowly and with lots of fits and starts - into a statesman. We have witnessed John McCain become a leader - not only of a delegation from a fast-growing Southwestern state, but into a national leader with a reassuring habit of stepping to the front when things seemed most difficult. Nobody in the country knows the Republican presidential candidate better than we do. And no one is better placed to judge whether he would serve honorably and admirably as president of the United States. We are confident he will. The Arizona Republic proudly recommends John McCain for president. Regarding foreign policy, no contemporary American statesman is more prepared than McCain to assume the mantles of first diplomat and commander in chief. In the tradition of Harry S. Truman, McCain already has demonstrated a willingness to let the buck of responsibility stop at his desk. No one elected McCain to stand virtually alone against three administrations over their use of power overseas - against President Reagan's ill-fated decision to send Marines to Lebanon in 1983; against President Clinton's decision to send U.S. troops to Somalia in 1993; and against President George W. Bush's decision 10 years later to send insufficient troops to Iraq. He fought Republicans and Democrats over irresponsibly sending troops into harm's way, and he fought Republicans over their equally irresponsible refusal to send enough troops to do the job. In all three instances, history has proved (too often tragically) that McCain's judgment was right. Even McCain mischaracterizes his noble willingness to stand up and stand alone. He contends it is the "maverick" in him. Well, he's wrong about that. It is the leader in him. In truth, the son and grandson of war admirals was never a good fit for the go-along, get-along comity of the U.S. Senate. The nation simply has not had an opportunity to elect a president this well prepared - and this willing - to be a world leader since Dwight Eisenhower. But as the Iraq war inches slowly toward peaceful resolution, domestic issues, notably the wrenching tumult on Wall Street and the economic woes it heralds, take center stage this election season. If McCain were to do no more than to serve as a presidential protectorate of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, most of which never were made permanent, he would provide a boost to the nation's troubled economy. As the economy lurches and slows, business leaders already envision further drag - and an unnecessarily elongated recession - caused by the heavy anchor of higher taxes, should the Bush-era tax cuts be repealed. The same concerns apply to the future of American free trade, a cornerstone of the nation's longest-ever period of economic expansion and wealth production. McCain is a stalwart advocate of free trade, while the rhetoric of his Democratic opponent strongly suggests to us that he is not. Which brings us to our concerns regarding Democratic candidate Barack Obama. No one will dispute that the Illinois senator's candidacy constitutes a historic moment in the life of this nation. In addition to his demonstrated capacity to help heal the greatest American wound, its racial divide, Obama has inspired millions of Americans to see anew the value of public service. Still, in terms of experience, Obama is barely four years removed from the Illinois State Legislature. And even that thin record in public office is obscured to us by the senator's proclivity for voting "present," often on knotty issues like abortion. For a candidate seeking the world's greatest political challenge, Obama presents an extraordinarily lightly traveled trail. Considering what we do know of his record, it is hard to envision Obama tamping down even the wildest leftist aspirations of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Obama's plan to reduce the taxes of "95 percent" of working families is most troubling. As many as 44 percent of "taxpayers" today pay no federal income tax at all. What Obama in fact is proposing is a direct transfer of wealth from top earners to those on the lower rungs. In short, he seeks to use the tax system as a revived form of welfare. John McCain joins hands with Barack Obama and other Democrats on numerous important issues. They are scarcely apart in their personal judgments about how to resolve illegal immigration. They speak virtually in one voice regarding the environment and the dangers of global warming. But McCain's support for a wide array of energy sources, including expanding domestic-oil production and building nuclear-power plants, is considerably more credible than Obama's. McCain speaks with a voice of credible authority. It is not as mellifluous a voice as Obama's. But it is a voice we in Arizona know well. It is one we trust. The Republic recommends John McCain for president of the United States. I love living in AZ. .

Dean Barnett, Dead At 41 Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT I have read his pieces since I started blogging in late 2006, quoted him often. His writing style was witty and whether you agreed with him or not, he always showed respect. William Kristol reports that writer Dean Barnett died, age 41. Best wishes and heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends. RIP .

Another News Station Banned From Interviewing Joe Biden Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:00 PM CDT First a Florida interviewer, Barbara West, asks Joe Biden questions he doesn't like, refusing to simply toss him softball questions and the Barack Obama campaign cancels his wife Jill Biden's scheduled interview, then refuses any more interviews with WFTV. Now, looks like a local station in Pennsylvania gets the same treatment. H/T Malkin for the video below. Another one bites the dust! .

Obama’s Marxist Roots Found in Liberation Theology Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:48 PM CDT One of the most read articles published by Faultline USA this past year is Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church, which is being republished today here in its entirety. Faultline USA was on the forefront of the successful battle to move the Brite Divinity School Jeremiah Wright award ceremony from the Campus of Texas Christian University back in March. Faultline USA has written several extensive articles about Jeremiah Wright, which can be found by using the Google Faultline USA search box in the right side-bar.  Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church The best lie is a little pig that’s always hidden between several fluffy layers of truth and covered with a lot of lipstick and charisma. This is a follow-up to yesterday’s article originally posted on Right Truth and here “What Obama’s Church Preaches” Note: This article isn’t so much about religion as it is about the politics of political revolution as fomented in all Liberation Theology churches.   Read also the post by Church and State: Obama's Pastor Embarrasses Entire Congregation. Be sure to View the video where “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Barak Obama's pastor, went on Hannity & Colmes last night to respond to claims that his church is a black separatist congregation.” Obama’s pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, continued to evade Hannity while he hammered away asking again and agin if Hannity had ever read James H. Cone, one of the primary authors of Black Liberation Theology. Oddly enough, I just happen to have several of Cone’s works on hand. Here’s just a little from Cone’s classic book A Black Theology of Liberation (Twentieth Anniversary Edition): Emphasis added by me: The definition of Jesus as black is crucial for christology if we truly believer in his continued presence today. Taking our clue from the historical Jesus who is pictured in the New Testament as the Oppressed One, what else, except blackness, could adequately tell us the meaning of his presence today? Any statement about Jesus today that fails to consider blackness as the decisive factor about his person is a denial of the New Testament message. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveal that he is the man for others, disclosing to them what is necessary for their liberation from oppression. If this is true, then Jesus Christ must be black so that blacks can know that their liberation is his liberation. . . The black Christ is he who threatens the structure of evil as seen in white society, rebelling against it, thereby becoming the embodiment of what the black community knows that it must become. . . To be a disciple of the black Christ is to become black with him. Looting, burning, or the destruction of white property are not primary concerns. Such matters can only be decided by the oppressed themselves who are seeking to develop their images of the black Christ. . . Whites do not recognize what is happening, and they are thus unable to deal with it. For most whites in power, the black community is a nuisance –something to be considered only when the natives get restless. But what white America fails to realize is the explosive nature of the kingdom. Although its beginning is small, it will have far-reaching effects not only on the black community but on the white community as well. Now is the time to make decisions about loyalties, because soon it will be too late. Shall we or shall we not join the black revolutionary kingdom? An excellent overview of the grave dangers of Liberation Theology was written in 1984 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). Here are some of the important points Ratzinger makes about Liberation Theology: 1. Liberation Theology has it center of power in Latin America and in African Theology, but is found in many Christian denominations throughout the Third World. 2. Liberation Theology is a new interpretation of Christian reality. 3. Liberation Theology is radically Marxist. “ . . .the world must be interpreted in terms of the class struggle and that the only choice is between capitalism and Marxism.” 4. Liberation Theology thrives on perpetuating class struggle. The only people of the Church are those who participate in class struggle. 5. Liberation Theology is a theology of bloody political revolution. All of Christian reality is reduced to politico-social liberation praxis (action). 6. Liberation Theology rejects traditional scriptural interpretations. “The experience of the "community" determines the understanding and the interpretation of Scripture. . . Ultimately, what is normative for interpretation is not historical research but the hermeneutic of history experienced in the community or the political group.” 7. Liberation Theology makes the Bible subject to a Marxist view of history. “The "historicality" of the Bible must justify its absolute dominance and thus legitimize the' transition to materialist-marxist philosophy, in which history has taken over the role of God. . . historical criticism has loosed Scripture from the traditional interpretation, which now appears to be unscientific. 8. Liberation Theology is a threat to the faith of the Christian Church. Here Ratzinger analyzes some of the central concepts of Liberation Theology: Faith: Jesus' experience of God is radically historical. "His faith is transformed into fidelity." Thus faith is fundamentally replaced by "fidelity to history". . . Hope is interpreted as "confidence in the.future" and as working for the future and thus is subordinated once more to the history of class conflict. . . Love consists in the "option for the poor"; i.e., it coincides with opting for the class struggle. . . Kingdom of God: “ . .the Kingdom must not be understood in a spiritualist or universalist manner, not in the sense of an abstract eschatological eventuality. It must be understood in partisan terms and with a view to praxis. The meaning of the Kingdom can only be defined by reference to the praxis of Jesus, not theoretically: it means working at the historical reality that surrounds us in order to transform it into the Kingdom.” Overcoming Dualism “Here we must mention another basic idea of a particular post­conciliar theology which has led in this direction. People said that after the Council every dualism must be overcome: the dualism of body and soul, of natural and supernatural, of this world and the world beyond, of then and now. Once these supposed dualisms had been eliminated, it only remained to work for a kingdom to be realized in present history and in politico­economic reality. This meant, however, that one had ceased to work for the benefit of people in this present time and had begun to destroy the present in the interests of a supposed future: thus the real dualism had broken loose.” Note: The above explanation of overcoming dualism certainly gives us some insight into the suicidal nature of leftist thought! Death and Resurrection: “ . . . Man has taken over God's gesture — this manifests the whole transformation of the biblical message in an almost tragic way . . .” Eucharist is interpreted as a celebration of liberation in the sense of politico-messianic hope and praxis. The word redemption is largely replaced by liberation, which is seen, against the background of history and the class struggle, as a process of progressive liberation. Action is truth “. . . The only true orthodoxy is therefore orthopraxy.” Ratzinger’s Summary In trying to arrive at an overall evaluation it must be said that, if one accepts the fundamental assumptions which underlie liberation theology, it cannot be denied that the whole edifice has an almost irresistible logic. By adopting the position of biblical criticism and of a hermeneutics that grows through experience, on the one hand, and of the marxist analysis of history, on the other, liberation theologians have succeeded in creating a total picture of the Christian reality, and this total view seems to respond fully both to the claims of science and to the moral challenges of our time, urging people to make Christianity an instrument of concrete world transformation; it seems to have united Christianity, in this way, with all the "progressive forces" of our era. One can understand, therefore, that this new interpretation of Christianity should have exercised an increasing fascination over theologians, priests and religious, particularly against the background of Third World problems. To say "no" to it must seem to them to be a flight from reality as well as a denial of reason and morality. On the other hand, if one considers how radical this reinterpretation of Christianity is, it is all the more pressing to find the right answer to the challenge which it presents. We shall only survive this crisis if we succeed in making the logic of faith visible in an equally compelling manner and in presenting it as a logic of reality, i.e., manifesting the concrete force of a better answer attested in lived experience. Since it is so, since thought and experience, interpretation and realization, are equally called for, it is a task for the whole Church. Theology alone is insufficient, Church authority alone is insufficient. Since the phenomenon of liberation theology indicates a lack of conversion in the Church, a lack of radical faith, only an increase in conversion and faith can arouse and elicit those theological insights and those decisions on the part of the shepherds which will give an answer to the magnitude of the question. Technorati Tags: Barack Obama,Rev. Jeremiah Wright,Liberation Theology,James H. Cone,Black Theology,Pope Benedict XVI,Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

The National Republican Trust PAC Hits Obama On Jeremiah Wright Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:20 PM CDT An issue that Barack Obama himself admitted was a "legitimate political issue" is also an issue the John McCain campaign has not taken advantage of. "I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past," he said. "The fact that he's my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue." That issue is Jeremiah Wright, Former pastor to Barack Obama, whom Obama called "like family" and a man that has spewed some of the most vile, anti-American, racist hatred, from his pulpit, while Barack Obama sat there for over 16 years, listening. After the videos of Wright spewing his "God Damn America" remarks, went viral online and was seen from coast to coast on television, Barack Obama denounced the words, but refused to denounce the man and it wasn't until Wright made the rounds with interviews and publicly said Barack Obama was only denouncing Wright's rhetoric because of "political expediency", that Obama finally distanced himself from Jeremiah Wright himself and shortly after Obama resigned his membership from the Trinity Church. Originally Obama denied having heard Wright's controversial remarks, then he later made a speech where he finally admitted he did. Now that we are caught up, we see that finally, someone is bringing Wright into the campaign. The National Republican Trust PAC is spending $2.5 million on an ad campaign, (video below) to be aired in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida which hits on Barack Obama's close admitted relationship with Jeremiah Wright.. . Text of AD: For 20 years Barack Obama followed a preacher of hate and said nothing is Wright raged against our country. [Clip of Rev. Wright:] "Not God Bless America, God Damn America . . . US of KKKA!" [Quote of Obama appears on screen:] "I don't think my church is particularly controversial." He built his power base in Wright's church. Wright was his mentor, adviser and close friend. For 20 years Obama never complained until he ran for President. Barack Obama. Too radical. Too risky. [Update]A reminder of Jeremiah Wright's type of rhetoric that Obama sat and listened to all those years in the video below: .

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