Yes, mark this down in the annals of absurd hyperventilating about the last century's demons, as Yes, mark this down in the annals of absurd hyperventilating about the last century's demons, as Ken Blackwell, who once compared gay people to barnyard animals, denounces today's Barack Obama speech. Blackwell, who lost his own race to become Ohio's governor in 2006 by a two-to-one margin, had this to say in a press release from his employer, the Family Research Council:
Barack Obama just gave an eloquent speech, but one that does not address the underlying nature of Senator Obama's beliefs. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, like Mr. Obama, believes in a state-centered 21st century form of big-government socialism. This 21st century form of socialism is at the heart of the Liberation Theology Rev. Wright preaches from the pulpit. Today, Mr. Obama again made it clear, with all his eloquence, that he still embraces these beliefs that would require dismantling the free-market system that has made our country's economy the most prosperous in all of human history. . . .Proponents of Liberation Theology, like Rev. Wright, teach that God commands us to form a government that will supervise our economy to create government-subsidized jobs under central-government planning; guarantee healthcare and education by having government control both; and achieve 'economic equality' by redistributing wealth through massive taxes on the affluent and massive government entitlements for the poor. . . . His speech was magnificent in its elegance and rhetoric, but today Mr. Obama reminded me yet again of his worldview that embraces, among other things, partial-birth abortion, military weakness, and economic socialism. Thank God for religious liberty and free elections!
--Sarah Posner
