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THIS IS A BENEDICTION?
Roman Around ^ | 20 January 2009 | Andrew Roman

Posted on 01/20/2009 10:51:35 AM PST by andrew roman

The Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery gave the benediction at today's inauguration of Barack Obama. It could more accurately be called a political ramble. It was, in no uncertain terms, an embarrassment. And as loathe as I am to have to use a word that has long been at the heart and soul of liberal thought, I will break out my liberal/english dictionary and say it ... It was offensive.

Said Mr. Lowery:

"We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back ... when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man ... and when white will embrace what is right ..."

Disgusting.

First off, this is a prayer?

Second, was the Reverend Lowery listening to old Jesse Jackson speeches before he gave this so-called prayer? The fact that the man can rhyme words only means that his faculties may parallel those of Dr. Suess, not that he is coherent.

What on earth is the man talking about?

(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: benediction; inaugural; josephlowery; obama
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1 posted on 01/20/2009 10:51:35 AM PST by andrew roman
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To: andrew roman

Rick Warren was more “inclusive” than this old liberal windbag.


2 posted on 01/20/2009 10:53:35 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: andrew roman

What crap. Ogama could have never been elected without White support. I wonder if this nonsense will send tingles up Chris Matthews’ leg.


3 posted on 01/20/2009 10:54:26 AM PST by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: andrew roman

“I do NOT like green eggs & ham. Amen”


4 posted on 01/20/2009 10:54:33 AM PST by NewCenturions
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To: andrew roman

Agreed. It was worse than idiotic, combined with the fact that he looked and sounded like a mumbling corpse.

His not-so-concealed jab at whites was rude, inappropriate, stupid, and openly racist.


5 posted on 01/20/2009 10:54:46 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: andrew roman

You can bet The Big O proof-read the copy before it was delivered. . . and he approved every word.

Bet on it.


6 posted on 01/20/2009 10:55:38 AM PST by Hulka
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To: andrew roman
We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back ...

Great, they can move to the front and tow the line for a while.

7 posted on 01/20/2009 10:56:38 AM PST by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: RightOnline

Rush is parsing this almost word for word right now—LOL!


8 posted on 01/20/2009 10:56:41 AM PST by basil ( It's time to get rid of all "Gun Free Zones")
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To: andrew roman

Disgusting racist doggerel is called “prayer”? This is shameful.


9 posted on 01/20/2009 10:57:03 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lilycicero

“Cat in the Hat” Ping.


10 posted on 01/20/2009 10:57:22 AM PST by nahanrac (I know rhyming words too:))
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To: andrew roman
I laughed at him and the female “poet”. Very embarrassing. The lady poet just said the craziest things she could think of, it seemed. “Ancestors on our tongues. Words, driving down the road.” Or something like that. HAHAHA
11 posted on 01/20/2009 11:00:17 AM PST by youngidiot
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To: andrew roman

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back ... when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man ... and when white will embrace what is right ...”

Note..
Only the “white man” doesn’t embrace what is “right”, everyone else are victims.

Disgusting.


12 posted on 01/20/2009 11:00:55 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: P8riot
But even Warren did not mention Pres. and Mrs. Bush in his prayer. He ask God to bless, cannot remember all, but he mentioned Congress et al and never our former Pres. as he begins his new life. Would have been nice.
13 posted on 01/20/2009 11:01:29 AM PST by rose
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To: youngidiot; shibumi

Words dissemble
Words be quick
Word resemble
Walking sticks.
...if you believe it.

[Jim Morrison: An American Prayer]


14 posted on 01/20/2009 11:04:23 AM PST by Salamander ( Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: andrew roman
> "We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in backgive up the Crack ... when brown can stick aroundput the gun down ... when yellow will be mellowwon't sell Crystal Meth to a fellow ... when the red man can get ahead, manwon't make you a dead man ... and when white will embrace what is rightfeel safe at nite ..."

Imagine the uproar if the Benediction were bound by Truth in Advertizing.

15 posted on 01/20/2009 11:04:35 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: andrew roman

“”We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back ... when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man ... and when white will embrace what is right ...”

Is this satire??

This sounds like that “Reverend” that Jerry Springer pulls out to be on his show. The drunk one.


16 posted on 01/20/2009 11:04:50 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: andrew roman

Didn’t take long for that old black racism to rear its ugly head.

I hoped for a change, but all I got was a dope with mange!


17 posted on 01/20/2009 11:05:21 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Names Ash Housewares; RightOnline
Only the “white man” doesn’t embrace what is “right”, everyone else are victims.

I agree... I was appalled by that... very inappropriate. I know this man has seen a lot of injustice in this country in his 87 years, but c'mon... sounds like he's still blaming "whitey" for everything.

18 posted on 01/20/2009 11:06:01 AM PST by nutmeg (No terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11/01. Thank you President Bush.)
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To: andrew roman

So the first black President has a racist “prayer” spoken over his inauguration.

Lovely. A sign of things to come?


19 posted on 01/20/2009 11:08:22 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: Brett66

“When the white will do what is right” — Gee I guess Hussein Obama got to be President only on black votes — whites are still not doing what is right in the eyes of that black racist Lowery.


20 posted on 01/20/2009 11:08:54 AM PST by Mr. Wright
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