I AM THE ONE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
...and, I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know...
Posted on 04/18/2008 3:36:04 PM PDT by tefis
I was reading about Obama and Wright being involved in the Million Man March and did a search on the subject. I ran across the text of Farrakhan's speech and was astonished to find that it's main theme was "a more perfect union". Since Obama seems to have a problem with original thought and is fond of lifting passages from other's speeches, I should not have been surprised at the remarkable similarities in Obama's and Farrakhan's speeches. What is surprising, is that Obama would lift the remarks of racist, anti-semite, black supremecist in a speech in defense of his close 20 year association with a racist, anti-semite black supremecist. I have not seen anyone in the media make this association and I don't know why. I thought it was important to pass it on to you. Perhaps I'm wrong but I do think that it's worth taking a look....
Following is an excerpt from the speech:
"And so our brief subject today is taken from the American Constitution and these words, 'Toward a more perfect union.' Toward a more perfect union. Now, when you use the word more with perfect, that which is perfect is that which has been brought to completion. So when you use more perfect, you're either saying that what you call perfect is perfect for that stage of its development, but not yet complete. When Jefferson said, 'Toward a more perfect union,' he was admitting that the union was not perfect, that it was not finished, that work had to be done. And so we are gathered here today not to bash somebody else. We're not gathered here to say all of the evils of this nation, but we are gathered here to collect ourselves for a responsibility that God is placing on our shoulders to move this nation toward a more perfect union.
Now, when you look at the word toward, toward, it means in the direction of, in furtherance or partial fulfillment of, with a view to obtaining or having, shortly before, coming soon, imminent, going on, in progress. Well, that's right. We're in progress toward a perfect union. Union means bringing elements or components into unity. It is something formed by uniting two or more things. It is a number of persons, states, et cetera, which are joined or associated together for some common purpose. We're not here to tear down America. America is tearing itself down. We are here to rebuild the wasted cities. What we have in the word toward is motion. The Honorable Elijah Mohammed taught us that motion is the first law of the universe. This motion which takes us from one point to another shows that we are evolving and we are a part of a universe that is ever evolving. We are on an evolutionary course that will bring us to perfection or completion of the process toward a perfect union with God. In the word toward, there is a law, and that law is everything that is created is in harmony with the law of evolution, change. Nothing is standing still. It is either moving toward perfection or moving toward disintegration or under certain circumstances doing both things at the same time. The word for this evolutionary changing, affecting stage after stage until we reach perfection, in Arabic it is called rab, and from the word rab, you get the word rabbi, or teacher, one who nourishes a people from one stage and brings them to another stage.
Well, if we are in motion, and we are, motion toward perfection, and we are, there can be no motion toward perfection without the lord who created the law of evolution and is the master of the changes. Our first motion then must be toward the god who created the law of the evolution of our being. And if our motion toward Him is right and proper, then our motion toward a perfect union with each other and with government and with the peoples of the world will be perfected. So let us start where the process leading to the perfect union must first be seen."
Here is a link to the speech in it's entirety:
http://www.afn.org/~dks/race/farrakhan-e6.html
BUMP
I suggest that Hillary talk about this. She should say that the Republicans will bring this up, so we should fully explore the backgrounds of all candidates.
Amazing how Hillary does that a lot. She and her henchmen bring up something, if challenged say that they are afraid that Republicans will use it against Obama, and that’s why they are talking about it.
She can go even further:
More Perfect Union - Starring Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Larry Sinclair!
Directed by Farrakhan!
Also Starring Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
Coming to a White House Near you.
Why can’t you put the lifted work next to the original so we can compare? I’m not going to read through these.
mark
bump
Obama began his speech in similar fashion and ended it in similar fashion.
The whole story was about our journey towards more perfect union......
Its a well known fact that Obama attended the Million Men March. He must have been impressed by Farrakhan’s speech. Stayed with him. Used it when he had to.
I don’t think there is EXACT PARALLEL between Farrakhan’s and Obama’s speech like it was in DeVal’s and Obama’s JUST-WORDS speech. However, I have to believe he picked up the main idea from this speech.
Somebody, quick, send this over to Chrissy Matthews. See if he still thinks Obamassiah's Philly speech was "Lincolnesque."
Probably a violation of some rule, but I’ll bump this too.
I also second the request to put the Obama texts side by side with the alleged “original” versions. Without word-for-word copying, it’s fair game. Ideas and themes are not copyrightable.
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