An interesting article about Obama’s radicalism at the Weekly Standard by Stanley Kurz is well worth a read.

The senator’s tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal.

Well that isn’t much of a surprise.

Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title “Springfield Report,” between 1996 and 2004.

This fits right within the time span of Larry Sinclair’s allegations.

It’s no wonder that Obama was shunned by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times during his early years in politics in Chicago…he was writing articles or columns which were published by the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald which indicate that his racist church and racism are very much a part of his radical ideology and his positioning himself in Chicago was completely intentional and a part of all of that.

What they [his columns] portray is a Barack Obama sharply at variance with the image of the post-racial, post-ideological, bipartisan, culture-war-shunning politician familiar from current media coverage and purveyed by the Obama campaign. As details of Obama’s early political career emerge into the light, his associations with such radical figures as Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend James Meeks, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn look less like peculiar instances of personal misjudgment and more like intentional political partnerships. At his core, in other words, the politician chronicled here is profoundly race-conscious, exceedingly liberal, free-spending even in the face of looming state budget deficits, and partisan. Elected president, this man would presumably shift the country sharply to the left on all the key issues of the day-culture-war issues included. It’s no wonder Obama has passed over his Springfield years in relative silence.

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