No more double standard for Barack

I said it a year ago (here and here), and I say it again now. The public should exercise the same standard for Barack Obama that it would for any white candidate and demand that he dissociate himself from his Africanist, black-racialist, anti-American church, the Trinity United Church of Christ. See the piece on Barack’s church at WorldNetDaily. Read its 10-point vision, which includes this:

“A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.”

A candidate for President of the United States has a non-negotiable commitment to a foreign continent? This is totally unacceptable.

And notice this, also on the church’s ten-point statement:

“A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.”

Meaning that the goal is that blacks have the same income and wealth as whites—something that, given the intrinsic differences in intellectual ability between the races, could only be achieved by seizing white people’s property and handing it to blacks. Sound familiar? It’s the policy pursued by Robert Mugabe, the thug-president of Zimbabwe.

Does Obama’s membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ mean he would pursue the economic goal contained in its statement of principles? Not necessarily. But it does strongly suggest that racial equality of outcome is his lodestar, the thing that he believes ought to be the case, and that makes society guilty so long as it hasn’t been achieved.

Further, given his congregation’s non-negotiable commitment to Africa, the equality to be achieved is not just between blacks and whites in America, but between Africa and America, between the black race and the white race globally.

In any case, if we had a press worthy of the name, Obama would be asked this question: Does he believe the U.S. government should take practical steps to ensure economic equality of outcome for the races? In other words, is he a racial socialist? Let him answer that question on tv.

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Terry Morris writes:

What do you suppose makes a person like Obama tick? In other words, why would Obama actually believe he is qualified to be the next president of the United States?

LA replies:

I have often asked myself that.

My only answer is that he experienced himself as having certain qualities, speaking ability, great assurance, exceptional poise, ability to reply smoothly to any question, ability to win support from people, a feeling that he could handle any situation, and this gave him the belief that he could do the job of president. In addition there is his unusual racial identity. It all added into a package that “worked” for him.

However, there also has to be extreme delusion in him, that he felt he OUGHT to be president, on the basis of nothing but his own “unifying” persona.

Mr. Morris replies:

That’s a good answer. I would say further that he’s probably always been surrounded by people (liberals) who have noted his natural talents you mention, and who have always told him how great he is of his own merits. At some point along the way he began to believe this himself, product of his upbringing that I imagine he probably is. I think at this point in his life he’s on a huge ego trip, to put it plainly, though he feigns a certain degree of humility.

LA replies:

But that’s another of his positive qualities, that he can be this huge star, and not seem egotistical.

But as I pointed out about his Iowa victory speech, a certain arrogance began to appear—an arrogance that seemed noticeably reduced in his post New Hampshire primary speech.

Mr. Morris replies:

You wrote: “But that’s another of his positive qualities, that he can be this huge star, and not seem egotistical.”

I agree, Obama is the total package (without the contents or something): a virtual “dream come true” for democrats and liberals. Months before the 2004 general elections I was accosted in a conversation between myself and a liberal because I didn’t “take their candidate seriously.” My reply to this was simply that “If you Democrats would offer up a serious candidate as your nominee, maybe I could take him seriously.”

Be careful what you wish for, eh?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 09, 2008 02:32 PM | Send