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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/082ktdyi.asp

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Via BizzyBlog

To the question of the moment–What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?–I answer, Obama knew everything, and he’s known it for ages. Far from succumbing to surprise and shock after Jeremiah Wright’s disastrous performance at the National Press Club, Barack Obama must have long been aware of his pastor’s political radicalism. A careful reading of nearly a year’s worth of Trumpet Newsmagazine, Wright’s glossy national “lifestyle magazine for the socially conscious,” makes it next to impossible to conclude otherwise.

Wright founded Trumpet Newsmagazine in 1982 as a “church newspaper”–primarily for his own congregation, one gathers–to “preach a message of social justice to those who might not hear it in worship service.” So Obama’s presence at sermons is not the only measure of his knowledge of Wright’s views. Glance through even a single issue of Trumpet, and Wright’s radical politics are everywhere–in the pictures, the headlines, the highlighted quotations, and above all in the articles themselves. It seems inconceivable that, in 20 years, Obama would never have picked up a copy of Trumpet. In fact, Obama himself graced the cover at least once (although efforts to obtain that issue from the publisher or Obama’s interview with the magazine from his campaign were unsuccessful).

….. There can be no mistaking it. What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? Everything. Always.

Which is what I’ve been saying all along.  I think it was a few weeks ago, before he threw Wright under the bus, that I said he would and that it would not be out of any philosophical differences, but out of political expediency. 

Wham! That nail has been hammered home.  This man is a liar, and not a very polished one.  He would throw his own wife under the bus if it was beneficial.  But, what he has is savoir-faire, the MSM firmly in his camp, a constituency to which he shamelessly panders, and the novelty of being a black man running for POTUS.  Folks are blinded by the light of his rhetoric. 

Obama is a textbook Leftist and a con artist (is that redundant?). We cannot afford to have him running the country.

Does anyone have any doubt as to when Obama knew about Wright’s leanings? Barack would have us believe he was that naive that he could be with Wright and NOT know what the latter is about.

If it truly took him twenty years to learn/acknowledge his poor judgment on this, what else “escapes” his notice? :D

The link’s not working for me, and from the URL, it looks like it’s Stanley Kurtz, not Howard Kurtz.

vladimir estragon - 14 May 2008 01:48 PM

The link’s not working for me, and from the URL, it looks like it’s Stanley Kurtz, not Howard Kurtz.

Good catch , will have to try to check the link.

Link has been revised to the original story...I got it from a second generation removed blog and had to follow it back to get to the original posting.