Farah nails Obama

The Jeremiah Wright tapes have been a godsend to the blogosphere and to think they were brought to us by the no-friends-of-freedom Huffington Post!

Joseph Farah nails Obama on his pathetic attempt to deflect the firestorm stirred up by the words of his preacher of 20 years.

Well, that would explain why he chose to join the black church, but why Jeremiah Wright's particular church?

"It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith," Obama said. "It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. I didn't fall out in church. The questions I had didn't magically disappear. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt that I heard God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will and dedicated myself to discovering His truth."

Obama recognizes that was a significant decision, one that shapes the way he sees the world and responds to it.

"That's a path that has been shared by millions upon millions of Americans – evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims alike; some since birth, others at certain turning points in their lives," he said. "It is not something they set apart from the rest of their beliefs and values. In fact, it is often what drives their beliefs and their values."

I couldn't agree more.

Barack H. Obama's most basic beliefs and values were either shaped or affirmed in Jeremiah Wright's pulpit in the Trinity United Church of Christ. There is simply no way around that. Barack H. Obama told us so himself not that long ago.

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