Posted on 02/15/2007 2:22:48 PM PST by Coleus
A black pastor says although there is a leadership vacuum in the African-American community, Illinois Senator Barack Obama does not fit the bill to fill the void. The New Jersey minister hopes his new website, ObamaNation.com, will expose Obama's voting history and prove to black voters that the much-touted Democratic presidential hopeful does not represent their values. Hear This Report
Pastor Clenard Childress heads the group Christians for Social Justice and is assistant to the national director of the pro-life group called Life Education and Resource Network, or LEARN. Also, he has recently launched the new ObamaNation.com website and its "Obama Blog," to educate the black community regarding what he calls the "horrific" voting record of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Childress says "winds of change" are blowing in the black community, but he believes the election of Obama as America's next president would be "a step back" at best. "All polling shows that African Americans are pro-life," the pro-family advocate notes, and "all polling shows that they are not in agreement with same-sex 'marriage.'"
Childress says his organization's goal is to get these facts about black America to translate into action at the voting booth. And one way of making that happen is to make Obama's own voting record known, the Christians for Social Justice official explains. With regard to abortion that record is disheartening, he notes; "even on the Born-Alive [Infants Protection] Act, I was appalled that he would deny medical assistance to a child that survived an abortion." Obama has become a media darling because "he's just as humanistic as they are," Childress contends. He says ObamaNation.com is an attempt to expose the Illinois senator's liberal stances on several key issues affecting the black community.
It is time, the Christians for Social Justice spokesman insists, for black social activists and pastors to hold their elected officials accountable and to stop "giving them a pass because of their party." He says, "African-American pastors at large and much of the membership of their churches -- and the African-American community -- usually just vote party without looking at the person. And that's really up to the respected, the elected, and our clergy to begin to change." Senator Obama's support for abortion garnered him a 100 percent rating from Illinois Planned Parenthood, an organization whose founder called blacks "human weeds." But according to Childress, the Illinois lawmaker and Democratic presidential candidate does not represent the views of the African-American community on abortion or any number of other important issues, including homosexuality.
No need for this PR campaign - Hillary already has a 30% lead over Obama among black voters because Obama is apparently too "white" for them.
Good luck to him. There's no use for white people to tell blacks how to vote or what to think. We badly need some black pastors who haven't allowed themselves to be bought off to speak out to the black community.
Why Roy Innis has been ignored for so long is something I`ll never understand in a million years. On the other hand I do, it`s because he kicked Sharptons arse.
About time.....
Pastor Childress from Montclair, NJ, and is well known among the pro-life crowd. He recenlty appeard on EWTN while being interviewed during the Walk for Life, West Coast, in San Francisco. Pelosi did not attend.
REVERSE RACISM ALERT!
To the Democrat party minorities are merely a means to an end, power. Simple.
Thanks. Good to know there are people with integrity willing to speak the truth about ANY candidate.
I saw that particular episode of the Morton Downy, Jr. show when it was on. It was hilarious and a classic to say the least. Al's nickname since has been rolly-polly.
I happen to work with several young black professionals.
Some of them do plan to vote for Obama but are a little tired of being told they have to vote for him. And some are a little sick of the way the dems take their vote for granted.
A good friend put it this way "The dems take us for granted and think they don't have to do anything to keep our vote and because of this I really don't blame the republicans for thinking no matter what they do we won't vote for them"
And I know more and more black people who are independent. One I know actually will vote for a republican over Hillary and maybe even over Obama depending on who it is.
Both intend to trash O'bama.
The Clinton war machine doing what the Clinton war machine always does!!
None of the blacks I have talked to are not sold on Obama either, but then again I live in the South and northern blacks may feel different about him.
The tide CAN be turned, but it ain't gonna be easy. More guys like Michael Steele are needed.
Steele didn't win, but he made QUITE an impressive showing and got more black votes than most expected him to.
'Illinois Planned Parenthood, an organization whose founder called blacks "human weeds."
To the Democrat party minorities are merely a means to an end, power. Simple.'
Except she did no such thing. Here is what she really said.
"No permanent peace is possible without a grasp of the population problem. Birth Control is not merely an individual problem; it is not merely a national question; it concerns the whole wide world, the ultimate destiny of the human race. . . . In his last book, Mr. Wells speaks of the meaningless, aimless lives which cram this world of ours, hordes of people who are born, who live, who die, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions. All that they have done has been done better before. Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth.."
She's still wrong but she was no more racist that most people of her time. Not one word about blacks being human weeds.
Yet they blindly step into the voting booth and pull the lever for the party that is the very embodiment of those things.
I have met a lot of independents and a growing number of conservatives among young black professionals. Although I am conservative, I get so sick of people assuming that because a candidate is a certain race or belongs to a political party that I should vote for them. Just because I am black doesn't mean I have to vote Democrat and support liberals. The problem with Democrats is they can't look at a person outside of race or gender. They assume all black people think, act alike and that we all want the same things out of life. I am very pro-life, why would I vote for a Democrat.
actually, I think the reason is - they want to back someone who they think can win. they don't think Obama can be elected, they think Hillary can be.
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