Is This What Obama Thinks, Too?

Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama’s close friend, spiritual mentor and pastor for twenty years. Obama finally jettisoned Wright during the campaign, but Wright has refused to go away. Now we have a video of Wright giving a speech recently to a group hosted by Monthly Review, a socialist magazine, that reveals a bit more of his thinking. Here is the beginning of the speech:

“Land of the greed, home of the slave.” Wright always could turn a phrase.

One wonders, though: Obama says that Wright brought him to Christianity; in Wright, Obama finally found a form of the religion to which he could relate. In Wright’s speeches and writings, it is impossible to separate his “Christian” beliefs–I do not accept that his hate-filled rants are, in fact, Christian–from his socialist, anti-American views. I don’t know how to escape the conclusion that anti-American socialism, wrapped in a thin veneer of Christian jargon, was exactly what Barack Obama knew he was getting when he chose Wright as his spiritual mentor. And how could this happen, unless Obama shares, to a considerable degree, the same anti-American, socialist world-view?

If that’s true, it would explain a lot of what we have seen from President Obama in his first nine months in office.

also:

Russia Steps Up the Pressure on Eastern Europe

In September, the Russian military carried out war games. What did they simulate? A nuclear attack on Poland:

The armed forces are said to have carried out “war games” in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country’s coast.

Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland’s leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus. …

The Russian air force practised using weapons from its nuclear arsenal, while in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which neighbours Poland, Red Army forces stormed a “Polish” beach and attacked a gas pipeline.

These war games took place at almost the precise moment when the Obama administration double-crossed Poland by announcing that, in order to placate Vladimir Putin, it was canceling the Bush administration’s plan to put anti-missile defense installations in Poland and other eastern European countries. That announcement, in turn, came just one month after Russia threatened Poland with a nuclear attack in August.

Two questions: 1) Is there some explanation for all of this other than the hypothesis that the Russians are moving rapidly to take advantage of what they know is a weak administration in Washington? 2) If you were Poland’s government, under pressure from Russia and apparently abandoned by the United States, what would you do?

from Powerline.