Obama's Life: Guilt by Agreement

The American Spectator reports:

Obama's casual calls for confiscating the profits of oil companies -- based on the assumption that all wealth belongs to the state -- or his description of a redistributionist tax system -- based on the assumption that the state should tax for goals of "justice," not just to pay for its legitimate functions -- proceed on premises Wright and company taught him long ago. His most famous thought from the campaign-- that economic frustration makes Americans turn to the opiates of God and guns-- couldn't have cemented this biographical background any better.

As his memoirs make clear, in which he recounts weeping at Wright's sermons and lapping up the hard-bitten musings of veteran radicals, his associations with the far left produced in him little guilt and a lot of pride.