Lowrey set ‘the black cause’ back 40 years with that excuse-of-an-invocation. Bullet, meet foot.
Where is Lowery’s apology to white people? If this had been the other way around, Je$$e and $harpton would have been screaming on the airways for an apology. Yet this racist buffoon gets away with it, and our “President” just sits there and giggles.
Put the fool Reverend back in his box and let him out in another 50 years. What anacronistic tripe. He has done a disservice to all people, everywhere in America, with that invocation.
I saw a bit of this and was appalled....the camera showed Obama snickering....what a bunch of classless idiots....
As Glenn Beck said today: You know, those Asians are always hopped up on something.
This was the stupidest benediction I could even think of and it doesn’t take much to offend me. Actually, I don’t get offended, that just ticked me off.
He obviously paid no heed to the new president's words:"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. ..."
I don't care too much for what Rev. Lowery said but I put the blame for it being a part of the Inauguration on 0pod. This was his day. He arranged it. Then he put this on the official WH website on Day One...
Obama is still attacking BushPresident Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
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President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration's "unconscionable ineptitude" in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.
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So much for putting aside childishness. Rev. Lowery was not an accident or an anomaly.