This posting and the article by Sowell that inspired it are a good portrayal of what we can expect Republicans to be harping on over the next few months, as they do their best to “swift-boat” Obama. Nowhere is a source cited for this donation info. Nowhere are we given a view of what “programs” this money allegedly funded. We are left to assume that anything Father Pfleger touches is foul. No doubt his Trinity rant was foul, but a single rant hardly sums up a lifetime.
Articles like this that provide no links or evidence of what they allege are hard to verify, and harder still to place stock in. Responsible reporting would provide citations.
Sowell asks:
Are Barack Obama’s views shown by what he says during an election year or by what he has been doing for decades before?
The answer is BOTH. Obama is proud of what he did before. He was the first African American Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down lucrative job offers to organize on the streets of Chicago. He worked towards social justice and towards an empowerment of the American community, and he has every right to be proud of such generous work.
Does Sowell expect Obama to return to Trinity after the election season?
Sowell mentions “his whole career of promoting far-left grievance politics,” but doesn’t mention a single one. What is a “far-left grievance policy,” anyway? Who knows – but it sure sounds bad!
Sowell uses the same sentence to tie Obama to Wright (in a non-religious context) and Ayers by saying; “in association with America-haters like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers” – what sort of association? Again, no mention of this. Implication. Character Assassination through association. In this article, these tactics are transparent.
The posting on Wiseman is concluded with the following two emotional paragraphs:
There is nothing more real than a man’s character and values. The track record of what he has actually done is far more real than anything he says, however elegantly he says it.
There is no office where the character and values of the person in that office matter more than the office of President of the United States. He holds the destiny of 300 million Americans in his hands and the fate of generations yet unborn.
And this author couldn’t agree more.
In the full article Sowell makes many other arguable statements and assumptions. All of which I’m ready to take on, should my counterpart see fit to wage them here.
