Posted on 03/16/2008 9:43:32 AM PDT by television is just wrong
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried "the forces of division" over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest. "We have to come together," he told a town-hall meeting at a high school. He cited videos of inflammatory sermons given by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him - remarks that Obama has denounced. "If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked," Obama said.
(AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a town hall meeting at... Full Image Obama suggested that more and more is being made of racial divisions as his contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton heats up. "I noticed over the last several weeks that the forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again. And I'm not here to cast blame or point fingers because everybody, you know, senses that there's been this shift," Obama said. "It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things." The Illinois senator's comments came a day after he denounced statements in videos appearing on television and on the Internet of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Chicago church Obama joined nearly 20 years ago. "Most recently, you heard some statements from my former pastor that were incendiary and that I completely reject, although I knew him and know him as somebody in my church who talked to me about Jesus and family and friendships."
(AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., walks through the door to enter a town... Full Image Obama said that pointing out racial differences only makes it harder to "deliver on the big issues we face in this country," which he said include health care, the slumping economy, terrorism and caring better for veterans. Obama, whose mother's family was from Kansas and his father from Kenya, said he was speaking "as someone who has little pieces of America all in me." He said schools should do a better job of teaching all students African-American history "because that's part of American history," as well as women's struggle for equality, the history of unions, the role of Hispanics in U.S. and other matters that he suggested aren't given enough attention. "I want us to have a broad-based history" taught in schools, he said, even including more on "the Holocaust as well as other issues of oppression" around the world. Obama spoke in the gymnasium of Plainfield High School, near Indianapolis, as he directed his political attention at states beyond the critical April 22 Pennsylvania primary. "We are going to be campaigning actively in Indiana," Obama said to cheers. Indiana and North Carolina have primaries on May 6, two weeks after Pennsylvania.
sorry obama, I can’t hear you over all the racist rhetoric.
Did Obama read his church newsletter?
He isn’t fit to be President of the United States.
No, it isn’t about his beliefs or what he thinks.
The simple fact is this: Anyone who claims a relationship with a mentor and close friend, a pastor and political activist over a twenty year period of close association, that’s 20 years,
and doesn’t know what the mentor said or thinks is TOO STUPID TO BE PRESIDENT.
Not only was Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama never in church during any of the disguting, racist comments from Wright--I guess that in OVER TWENTY YEARS--he never read the newsletters either!!! Yarite.
In addition, I'm sure than most people can relate to donating over $20,000 to someone whose sickening racist attitudes you had absolutely NO IDEA about (even though he was your spitiual leader and mentor for over 20 years). /s
If you want to GREATLY expand the racial divide in the country,,,,
Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama and his anti-American, bitter, angry wife are....
JUST THE COUPLE FOR THE JOB!!
That wasn’t racist rhetoric, it was a sermon.
I agree with that.
I'm sure it was....just the typical, weekly 'sermon'!!!...lol
Now isn’t that the pot calling the kettle a pot..... Obama is the epitomy of the race issue.... his paster hates America and Whitey.... His mentors side with Louis Farrakhan the racist black anti-semitic... So Obama message is nothing short of a race based message...
It is the WE ... who are the WE Barrack ... is the Black Americans who you are fighting for at least your pastor thinks that is true ... aren’t we all Americans Obama.... and no I don’t think the good people of Iowa would be welcom or comfortable in your CHURCH...
Exactly... You pegged it ... It was a typical Jeramiah Wright sermon... typical on any Sunday... So How is it possible that Barrack misssed a typical Wright Sermon... Obamas statement on fox that he never heard Wright speak like that is a bold faced Lie. Obama and his wife have been indoctrinated into this mind set it is them against Whitey.
Obama is the George Jefferson of the Democrat party.
Yeah. We do.
But it's people like the Reverend Wright, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton that keep bringing the subject back up.
Obama is either a liar or a fool.
He was shocked to here what Jeremiah had to say?
It must be a time warp.
I remember hearing pretty much exactly the same words spoken 35 years ago, and about 5 trillion dollars worth of welfare and other transfer payments ago. We've still got a lot of "pent-up anger" out there?
It'll never go away at this rate, Barry.
I'm sure he didn't mention the founding principles of the United States and the Constitution as matters that "aren't given enough attention" in the schools. Nah, too politically incorrect to teach stuff about "racist white males." But why should Obama and his fellow lefties care about teaching such archaic stuff anyhow when general public knowledge of it might thwart their goal of subverting the republic over which they are attempting to gain complete control?
And what about teaching social sciences without political bias, Obama?
Political bias, they don’t know what that means when they slant things in their direction.
Yes, but the big difference is that "George Jefferson" was a comic TV character, while Obama is for real. Hopefully, Obama won't be "movin' on up" to the White House.
I guess if Jeramiah Wright and Louis Farrakahn have anything to say about it he will... and who’s gonna stop him ... only thing that stands between Obama an the White House is WHITEY!!!
Charlatan Obama: Not Ready for Prime Time.
(Actually Not Ready for Anytime)
Looks like it is Hillary.
It’s not just the pastor, it’s the church. The new pastor is just as bad. The website is just as bad, the mission statement is just as bad, the newsletters, the publications, etc. etc. It’s a racist hate church.
“If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked,” Obama said.
Now you know, you’re still a member.
Obama is trying to bamboozle us.
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