Yet the southern blacks seem to forget this type of democrat kissing up. 
Posted on 03/06/2007 6:01:00 AM PST by pissant
Sunday’s march in Selma, Ala., may have been a sacred commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march of 1965, but beneath it all lurked raw politics, with Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., competing fiercely for black voters.
While local churches were packed with parishioners, just a few hundred yards apart on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, the rival Democratic presidential candidates made their pitches, both praising civil rights leaders for paving their way.
“Don’t tell me I’m not coming home when I come to Selma, Ala. I’m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I’m here because y’all sacrificed for me,” Obama told a crowd.
Meanwhile, at 709 Martin Luther King St., Clinton told parishioners at First Baptist Church that “the Voting Rights Act gave more Americans from every corner of our nation the chance to live out their dreams. And it is the gift that keeps on giving. Today it is giving Sen. Obama the chance to run for president of the United States. And by its logic and spirit, it is giving the same chance to [New Mexico] Gov. Bill Richardson, an Hispanic. And, yes, it is giving me that chance, too.”
Black voters are crucial for both front-runners as their campaigns calculate the math that will lead to their nominations. The fierce competition between the two was not only evident in their presence this weekend, but in the the steps they took to connect with the crowds.
Raised in Illinois and representing New York, Clinton effected a sporadic but curious Southern drawl in her speech. “I” became “Ahhh,” “far” morphed into “fahhhr,” and “mayor” suddenly sounded like “mare.”
And how about Obama? Well, he credited the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights marchers of 1965 with the fact that his parents — a black African father and white Kansas mother — were empowered to fall in love and got married.
“They looked at each other and they decided, ‘We know that in the world, as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child, but something is stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across the bridge.’ And so they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Ala.!”
Obama was born in 1961; the Selma march was four years later. Obama said later that he meant to credit the entire civil rights movement with his parents’ union, not just the Bloody Sunday marchers…
Funny how Mr. Obama’s mistakes about history call ot mind our first black President’s memories of seeing black churches burning in his youth.
Meanwhile, the cries of outrage at these two politicians illegally race-baiting pandering campaigning in these black churches are deafening, aren’t they?
What a circus.
I can't wait for Hillary to get in front of a crowd in Compton or East St. Louis or Camden. She will probably break out in Rap patter. Don't get too close to the stage, in case she starts break-dancing. Them-there cankles can be lethal weapons.
Hey MF. Good to see you. I'm not ashamed of them, but utterly disdainful of their stupid racism and pandering.
I do not know.
It never will.
I consider the dozens of folks I have recruited to the Hunter campaign to be quite constructive. As for Rudy, if there weren't so many folks here clinging on to this liberal chump, I'd ignore him.
Didn't he used to work in the Clinton administration or campaign, or am I confusing him with someone els?
Osama Bama will never be the "second" black president.
He also seemed to attribute the African independance movement after WWII to the American civil rights movement. While all independance movements grew out of the American revolution, the shot heard round the world, I don't see the direct connection to the civil rights movement here.
Tapper used to write lefty pieces for salon.com .... and now is working for ABC ... interesting that he would take on the hyprocrisy of Obama ..... I would suspect he has ties or at least loyalties to the Clinton camp.
"The fierce competition between the two was not only evident in their presence this weekend, but in the the steps they took to connect with the crowds. pander to and coddle the gullible slow-witted simple minded cattle packed in the churches.
There, much better.
Great post at #40 by Dennisw!
I don't think it is right either for him to exclude the family who raised him. You notice how he tried to use y'all, he is not southern. It is so funny watching the Dems kiss up to southern blacks.
Did they rent a pickup truck and a couple of dogs?
Did they go to a local general store to "get me a hunting license"?
Did they suddenly become religious and praise the Lord? Oh wait...they did.
Welcome to the South, folks. Now please go back up North.
I have never heard of the Halle Berry syndrome. I am guessing it means a biracial person who runs from their white heritage, even though the white parent was the one who raised them.
Yet the southern blacks seem to forget this type of democrat kissing up.
Post 40 is a good one!
Obama credits his coming of age like Hillary does her first name--ex post facto.
I seriously doubt it, interracial marriages were illegal until 1967 (Loving vs. Virginia).
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
His ('Bama Hussein's) Papa was a Rolling Stone!! Thanks Hillary for the opposition research!!!
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