I have been very concerned about this situation with Jeremiah Wright. It was so obviously planned at a time to hurt Obama's campaign, and it was obviously a joyous time for the media. I like the guy, and I think he got a raw deal.
I don't blame Obama, he did what he had to do. I blame the Clinton campaign for
openly declaring they would use it as an issue. It was despicable. How much it hurt two good men has yet to be seen.
But now let's look at Doug Coe. He was stated by Hillary to be a "genuinely loving spiritual guide and mentor for many”. She is part of his group, the Family, The Fellowship, through her prayer cell.
This is an interesting blog I found....
Clinton, Coe, and the KingWhat do the king of Norway and Hillary and Clinton have in common? They're both pals with Doug Coe, the "First Brother" of the fundamentalist network known to those in the know as The Fellowship and to those on the inside as The Family. Talk 2 Action's Bruce Wilson does a better job than I did yesterday in translating Norwegian to bring us the latest news on the man known to his friends in Washington as the "Shadow Billy Graham." Yes, this is all sounding pretty kooky. But it's no conspiracy, it's just the wonderful weirdness of religion in America (and Norway).
Here is the article at Talk 2 Action, a blog I have quoted before.
It is translated from the newspaper Dagbladet, I believe. I remember that name because it brought us the first picture in 2003 of the US soldiers in Iraq making Iraqi men run naked through the streets.
Clinton: Coe's a "Spiritual Mentor". Dagbladet: He's a "Hitler Admirer"Picture courtesy of Talk2Action blogOn April 23, 2008 the UK Daily Mail reported on a new doll being marketed in the Ukraine, a Hitler doll with suitably Hitlerian attire and "a spare head" which, should demand for the doll be high enough said a spokesperson for the manufacturer, could lead to "a series of themed Third Reich toys, including interiors of Hitler's chancellery, toy concentration camps with barbed wire, barracks and operating models of gas chambers and crematoriums." Meanwhile, according to Norwegian journalist Tore Gjerstad, "Fellowship" head Doug Coe, described by Hillary Clinton as "loving" and a "spiritual mentor" but whom Gjerstad pegged as a "Hitler-admirer", was on the move. Coe's first stop: a meeting with the King of Norway...
..." Earlier this week, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, which has a circulation of roughly 140,000, ran a story, entitled (translated from the original Norwegian) "Hitler-admirer Received by King.", about "Family" head Doug Coe's visit to Norway, where Coe met with the Norwegian King. In the Dagbladet story, journalist Tore Gjerstad quoted Coe, from recordings of Coe's sermons, lauding the commitment of young Chinese Red Guard men, who decapitated their parents, and enthusing over the organizational methods and organizing prowess of Hitler, Lenin and Mao. Hillary Clinton, who denies having any links to Coe and his group, nonetheless has written of the "Fellowship" head as "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God."
By far the biggest break for this slowly emerging story on The Family/The Fellowship, almost certainly one of the most influential secret political networks on Earth, was in
ABC's April 3, 2008 exclusive, Political ties to a secretive religious group.(They said ABC, but the link is to the article and video by NBC, so I gather it was an error. )
Here is more.
The NBC story featured a video in which "Fellowship" (or "Family") head Doug Coe celebrated the political conviction of Chinese communists willing to lop off their own parent's heads (with with axes, guillotines were probably not readily available) for the good of the state, but the ensuing minor hubbub didn't quite convince the rest of mainstream media that the story trumped the hullabullulaballoo over sermons given by Barack Obama's ex-pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Although, as detailed by NBC, there exist numerous ties between leading US politicians and Doug Coe, leader of the secretive, global fundamentalist religious group "The Fellowship", who celebrates parental decapitation and waxes enthusiastic over the power inherent in the bond and covenant shared among Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler.
The blogger says "the Family/Fellowship story has simmered down since NBC's April 3rd story but perhaps Dagbladet's coverage, migrating back over the Atlantic, will rekindle interest in a group lying, as Sharlet puts it, "at the heart of American power."
Yes, maybe it will. Let's continue the conversation about Doug and David Coe now that Jeremiah Wright has been firmly put in his place, and Obama has been forced to genuflect in public.
Kudos, Barack Obama, you did it in a classy way.