What Did Obama Know And When Did He Know It? Updated

Just what did the Obamas know about their church and its pastor Jeremiah Wright and when? Stanley Kurtz got a years worth of back issues of Wright's magazine "The Trumpet" and took a close look and concludes that either Barack is either blind, deaf and stupid or he knew it all from the beginning. This issue is not going to go away no matter how much BO wishes it would because he heard twenty plus years of Wright decrying that America is a country built on and sustained by racism and white supremacy yet his beloved Africa still has pockets of slavery and real genocide that have nothing to do with America. Does he not know that it was Arab muslims that ran the slave trade and still practice it today? Go read the whole piece but here is a snip.

I obtained the 2006 run of Trumpet, from the first nationally distributed issue in March to the November/December double issue. To read it is to come away impressed by Wright's thoroughgoing political radicalism. There are plenty of arresting sound bites, of course, but the larger context is more illuminating--and more disturbing--than any single shock-quotation. Trumpet provides a rounded picture of Wright's views, and what it shows unmistakably is that the now-infamous YouTube snippets from Wright's sermons are authentic reflections of his core political and theological beliefs. It leaves no doubt that his religion is political, his attitude toward America is bitterly hostile, and he has fundamental problems with capitalism, white people, and "assimilationist" blacks. Even some of Wright's famed "good works," and his moving "Audacity to Hope" sermon, are placed in a disturbing new light by a reading of Trumpet.

Also don't miss this excellent piece by John Kass on Obama's connection to the seamy underbelly of Chicago's uber-corrupt politics.
Unelectable to the tune of Unforgetable

Update: Don't miss this great post at Protien Wisdom looking at the NYT's profile of Obama and what it left out.

The article, for all of its flaws, reveals Obama as someone who purposefully sought to associate himself with with Leftists and radicals. The paper allows Obama to obscure the depth of those relationships, while suggesting that Obama has been willing to ditch his Leftist allies as he relentlessly climbs the political ladder. Whether Obama would leave his Leftist buddies in the lurch if he became President cannot be known. But the NYT profile gives little reason for anyone to believe he would be a great unifier or reformer in that office.

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