The Catholic Roots of Obama's Activism

THE NEW YORK TIMES

CHICAGO — In a meeting room under Holy Name Cathedral, a rapt group of black Roman Catholics listened as Barack Obama, a 25-year-old community organizer, trained them to lobby their fellow delegates to a national congress in Washington on issues like empowering lay leaders and attracting more believers.

“He so quickly got us,” said Andrew Lyke, a participant in the meeting who is now the director of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Office for Black Catholics. The group succeeded in inserting its priorities into the congress’s plan for churches, Mr. Lyke said, and “Barack Obama was key in helping us do that.”

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT GUN CONTROL LAWS

Since the tragic shooting in Connecticut, the mainstream media in the U.S. has been giving out false information about the results of various gun bans in the U.K. and in Australia. This should be no surprise to those who have been paying attention, and seen all of the propaganda in support of the failed presidency of Barack Obama. To understand the truth of these things, we recommend avoiding the "American left-wing propaganda" news sites, and check out the British and Australian press. These people live in these countries, and they ought to know whether or not gun control has worked...

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