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.
Lots mo' Hussein ---->>>
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The Democrat minstrel show heads south. Didn't Obama say he had been there "befo'"?
Sums it up well. Coulter was ruthless. Google coulter and Halle berry and you may find her comments.
Thanks!
Obama and Hillary doing blackface.
Two more lies told on Sunday:
Hillary credited Lyndon Johnson with signing the Voting Rights Act, neglecting to mention that most Democrats were against that bill, and that if not for the GOP, Johnson wouldn't have had a bill to sign.
And
She claimed she saw Martin Luther King's speech in Chicago in 1963 and it changed her life forever.
The next year, she was a Goldwater Girl.
You know why because liberals love the one drop rule. A freeper even replied that a white woman can give birth to a black child and a black woman can only give birth to a black child. I replied to this freeper that a white woman can give birth to a biracial child and a black woman can give birth to a biracial child. This freeper even replied that was the rule. Liberals thrive off the one drop rule and love it. I have biracial family members that tend to look more white then black. To me a mixed race person is biracial, but to a liberal the child can only be black.
"Ears Obama is as an empty suit as ever has run for President."
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Even emptier than Hitlery"s pantsuit?
True. I have nieces who are part white/Filipino, and they look pretty mixed.
I will never forget, that is one of the many reasons I continue to vote for Republicans. I have had white liberals try to convince that all Republicans are racist and that is why I shouldn't vote for them. It is just so funny they try to create this southern white boogeyman image and if you don't vote for Democrat your life will suffer under Republicans.
Obama has as much in common with a southern black man as I do.
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I was born in 1944 within ten miles of the site of the first secession meeting, I am fishbelly white, descended from Confederate veterans on both sides of the family and I have a hundred times more in common with a southern black man than Obama. I work with southern black men, I served in the Navy with southern black men, I teach them what I know and I learn from them, I sit and eat at the same table with southern black men, Obama wouldn't know a real southern black man from an Ayattollah.
Don't you hate when people try to be like us Southern folks for their own personal gain.
That's why I'm ashamed of them. There is no place for either racism or pandering in the White House.
I pray daily that the enemies of this country will be confounded in their efforts to destroy us, and I can only hope that this recent display by these two candidates will render them useless in the long run.
I would be honored that they tried to be Southerners, except for the fact that as soon as they leave, they will resume ridiculing Southerners as hick flyover country.
Very good point, I have always felt that I had more in common with southern whites then northern blacks. Part of the reason is because northern blacks tend to look down on southern blacks. Not all northern blacks are like this, but a good number of them I have came in contact with are.
BTTT
Since Obama's father was not an African-American in the first place, this is just more left-wing nonsense.
Obama's father was a slick and charming con man, as well as a drunk and a bigamist. I doubt the Civil Rights Movement had anything to do, even remotely, with his impregnating Obama's mother.
Obama Osama Hussein - for more ears.
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