Obama may have left Trinity, but he’s still on the Left.

By Stanley Kurtz

Having now left Trinity United Church of Christ, can Barack Obama
escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and
Jeremiah Wright? No, he cannot. Obama’s connections to the radical-
left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep. The
real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first
place is that he largely approved of their political-theological
outlooks.

Obama shared Wright’s rejection of black “assimilation.” Obama also
shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of
individual self-improvement and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” In
common with Wright, Obama had deep misgivings about America’s criminal
justice system. And with the exception of their direct attacks on
whites, Obama largely approved of his preacher-friends’ fiery
rhetoric. Obama’s goal was not to repudiate religious radicalism but
to channel its fervor into an effective and permanent activist
organization. How do we know all this? We know it because Obama
himself has told us.