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Obama Decries Racial Rhetoric
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080316/D8VEE9OO0.html ^ | 3/16/20008 | Tom Raum

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.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jeremiahwright; kettleblack; nobama; obama; obamahussein; racism; trinityicc; trinityucc
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To: television is just wrong
Obama is just a shill for the black racist establishment that perhaps is a minority within a minority but very powerful.

They have been ignored by the MSM to maintain democrat dominance but the cat's out of the bag.

The question remains: is there enough self-respect left in white Americans to recognize that hating someone for the color of their skin is wrong even if that color isn't a shade of brown?

21 posted on 03/16/2008 10:20:38 AM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: D-fendr

Obama and the Pastor from Hell do not like whitey. Too bad.


22 posted on 03/16/2008 10:22:30 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: justiceseeker93
And what about teaching social sciences without political bias, Obama?

What about the 50% drop out rate for blacks in high schools in many of our big cities?? I guess that is "Whitey's" fault too! /s

23 posted on 03/16/2008 10:31:12 AM PDT by stockstrader (Voting for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like trying to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: television is just wrong; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ...
Re: "If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked," Obama said.

Why do I see the image of Obama saying this... while morphing into that scene from Casablanca where Captain Renault is closing Rick's because he found there was gambling there just as the croupier is giving him his winnings from roulette?

24 posted on 03/16/2008 10:31:59 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: television is just wrong
said he was speaking "as someone who has little pieces of America all in me

said he was speaking "as someone who has little pieces of [U S of KKK A] all in me"

25 posted on 03/16/2008 10:32:19 AM PDT by syriacus (Thanks webmaster!! I love to search via YAHOO on FR to find old FR threads! Far better than Google.)
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To: D-fendr
“If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked,” Obama said

I'm sure that Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama also was NEVER aware of his lovely wife's bitter, angry, anti-American beliefs and attitudes either!!!

26 posted on 03/16/2008 10:33:24 AM PDT by stockstrader (Voting for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like trying to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: television is just wrong

“Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried “the forces of division” over race”

did he tell his wife and preacher?


27 posted on 03/16/2008 10:35:19 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: TornadoAlley3

no mention of the marxist preacher retiring as Hussein maintains.


28 posted on 03/16/2008 10:37:05 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: television is just wrong

Didn’t take long for the dreaded “R” word to appear, what is so much fun is these morons in the democratic party are using it against each other. What goes around comes around. It;s coming back to bite them in thier arzes


30 posted on 03/16/2008 10:47:21 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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I read an article on the preacher talking about the flight from black churches to the black muslims, and how black liberation theology was in reaction to this.

With Wright’s relationship with Farrakahn, I think it’s accurate to call his church the christian equivalent of black muslim.

It’s pretty much the same theology and worldview.

And this is what Obama is going to have a hard time explaining and justifying.


31 posted on 03/16/2008 10:48:44 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: spanalot

He retires in June.


32 posted on 03/16/2008 10:52:55 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: Bender2

Wealy and twewly I wuv zis movie. I shall have twe inwestigate zis zen.

33 posted on 03/16/2008 10:56:22 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: television is just wrong
Obama, whose mother's family was from Kansas

A rhetorical trick; people associate KS with "middle-American" values. His maternal grandparents moved to the Left Coast and became Unitarians. His mother was a narcissistic antiAmerican hippie who married two Muslims, lived her adult life in the Third World off Ford Foundation and govt. money, and abandoned young "Barry" to be brought up by his grandparents.

34 posted on 03/16/2008 10:59:08 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: TornadoAlley3

I think Hussein said on Fox that “he has retired”.

He only wishes.


35 posted on 03/16/2008 11:11:49 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot
The current web page of the Trumpet, the newsletter of Obama's church, features an interview with Louis Farrakhan.

Obama can't speak of racism at his church being in the past tense, or something which has departed with the "retirement" of Rev. Wright.

http://www.trumpetmag.com/current_issue.cfm

36 posted on 03/16/2008 11:18:57 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: television is just wrong

37 posted on 03/16/2008 11:27:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: television is just wrong
"When the levees in Louisiana broke alligators, crocodiles and piranha swam freely through what used to be the streets of New Orleans. That is an analogy that we need to drum into the heads of our African American children."

This guy is a M-O-R-O-N.

[no offense meant to morons]

38 posted on 03/16/2008 11:33:31 AM PDT by Condor51 (If my nose was runnin' money, honey I'd blow it all on you.)
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To: Condor51

Obama is going to be toast after this in the general
election!


39 posted on 03/16/2008 11:42:53 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: television is just wrong

So, why were you friends with a racist dillweed for 20 years? Are you in the habit being friends with peole for 20 years and knowing nothing about them?


40 posted on 03/16/2008 12:11:57 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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