Uh-oh.
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Chris Coons, the freshly minted Democrat selected as TeaParty favorite and Republican nominee Christine O'Donnell'sopponent in the Delaware U.S. Senate race traveled to Africa in the1980s -- emerging as a committed leftist after volunteering for anorganization supporting Black Liberation Theology.
The controversial religious philosophy espoused by radicalleft-wing activist James Cone and President Obama's one-timespiritual mentor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Black LiberationTheology is an off-shoot of liberation theology, a Marxist-driveninterpretation of Christianity.
And the liberal media -- alarmed at O'Donnell's successand busily running all manner off stories designed to portray heras a right-wing crazy -- has suddenly gone missing on Coons. Silenton a stunning revelation that could prove uniquely fatal to ChrisCoons' Senate candidacy in the year of Tea Party rebellion againstthe Obama Administration's agenda of wealthredistribution.
The Washington Post curiously says of Coons in their Coons profile only that he"spent time in South Africa and Kenya doing relief work." TheNew York Times never mentions Coons' work in Africa, choosing instead todescribe him as an attorney and mentioning only his work with thehomeless, the Investor Responsibility Center, and the "I Have aDream" Foundation. Plus his educational background, a B.A. fromAmherst, a law degree from Yale and a Master's in Ethics from YaleDivinity School.
Yet nary a word from theTimes about the now-New Castle County Executivespending time in South Africa or Kenya.
What's striking amid all the probing of O'Donnellis what's missing from both the Washington Post andthe New York Times accounts of Coons, the Delaware Senatenominee Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid describes as "my pet."
Coincidentally it is the same startling detail that ismissing from Coons own website.
Instead Coons operatives supply one brief sentence on theCoons website about his time in Africa: "Chris also studied atthe University of Nairobi in Kenya."
That's it.
But there is more to this story. Much more.
According to his biography as presented by theWashington Post, Coons wasn't just in Kenya, he was alsoin South Africa. While it is plain from this May interview inPolitico that his experiences in Kenya began turningCoons to the left, the South Africa connection claimed by thePost is never mentioned with respect to the origins ofCoons' suddenly well-hidden leftwardleanings.
A hint -- and perhaps more than a hint since the Coonscampaign states flatly in the Politico article that Coons'time in Africa turned him into a left-winger -- comes in, of allplaces, Wikipedia. There, before he became famous overnight asO'Donnell's opponent, it states flatly that after graduating fromcollege in 1985 and working in Washington -- where he wrote a bookon South Africa -- Coons' time in Africa was spent doing more thansimply attending the University of Nairobi in Kenya. SaysWikipedia, with a description that picks up from thePost:
He then worked as a volunteer for the South African Council of Churches and as a relief workerin Kenya"¦
Letter to the Editor
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
Beware of anyone bearing an "Ethics Doctorate" - the classicworthless degree of the professional leftist student.
Strange last name for a liberation theologist - perhaps somewhite guilt there?
Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell "dabbled intowitchcraft."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....is_on.html
Be honest, vtwin...... we're educated readers here, so we knowthis was all a high school thing. What did you do in highschool?
He'd have a point if O'Donnell still 'dabbled' in witchcraft asCoons still 'dabbles' in black liberation theology. I do not findO'Donnell the best possible candidate but a silly little story likeLupica's - who is admittedly a silly little man - is less thenmeaningless.
You are an idiot!!
Very true. But so vtwin can understand it, you must write likeObama speaks:
You. Are. An. Idiot!!
See? This way, vtwin can get it.
Kelly,How exactly am I am idiot? Because I do not think O'Donnell is thebest candidate? She is not. Given the choice between Castle and herI'd vote for her everytime but that does not make her ideal. Orbecause I think Lupica is a silly little man? Or because I thinkthe fact she dabbled in witchcraft in high school is meaningless?Tell me what you found idiotic in my statement and perhaps we canhave a dialogue.
OH BTW your mom dresses you funny. See how easy it is to tossout meaningless insults in what is supposed to be a forum fordiscussion.
I agree probably meaningless to you and me but it will cost hervotes, though not a big voting bloc in Delaware, withfundamentalist Christians.
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