By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:43:34 +0000

We need better communications with the “Conservatives” This transcends our “Maverick” candidate. It is a direct attack on Christian values!
Obama told the AME Church in St Louis on July 5th he became a Christian decades ago while working as a Community Organizer in Chicago! His Mentor Wrights mentor was James H CONE……..A Ordained Minister of the AME Church !
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
is a memoir by current United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Senator Obama’s widely admired keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC); the 2004 edition includes a new introduction by Senator Obama as well as his DNC keynote address.
Below are some quotes for your review:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
“There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”
“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names .”
“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.”
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
is the second book written by US Senator Barack Obama. It was the number three bestseller on The New York Times nonfiction list as of October 2006. The book represents Obama’s personal manifesto for his 2008 campaign for the presidency.
A quote for your review.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
James H. Cone
Aspects of Cone’s theology and words have been the subject of controversy in the political context of the 2008 Presidential campaign, as Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright noted that he had been inspired by Cone’s theology. Some scholars of black theology have noted that the controversial quotes do not necessarily represent black theology as it is currently practiced or the views of people like Wright who practice it. Cone has responded to the controversy by noting that he was generally writing about white churches that did nothing to oppose slavery and segregation and not about white people as individuals.
Hoover Institute fellow Stanley Kurtz, in a political commentary in National Review, wrote that “Cone defines it as “complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary.” For Cone, the deeply racist structure of American society leaves blacks with no alternative but radical transformation or social withdrawal. So-called Christianity, as commonly practiced in the United States, is actually the racist Antichrist. “Theologically,” Cone affirms, “Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.'” The false Christianity of the white-devil oppressor must be replaced by an authentic Christianity fully identified with the poor and oppressed.”

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:44:04 +0000

Mary wrote:

I’m bending more towards anarchy, everyday.

=)))
Good one.

By: Drowssap

Drowssap — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:35:53 +0000

Mary

I’m bending more towards anarchy, everyday.

With government spending goin’ increasingly nuts every year we might be headed that way sooner or later. 😎

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:38:53 +0000

I’m bending more towards anarchy, everyday.

By: Drowssap

Drowssap — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:52:55 +0000

It’s not small government. It’s the high-horse “morality” of the religious right that sickens me.

Generally speaking the federal government should have no right to legislate morality. Sadly the feds involve themselves in that and a lot of other things.
The states… now that is a different story. I like the idea of trying 50 different ideas. Freedom and innovation keeps a system strong.

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