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Obama Gets His History Wrong Again - At Selma (He lied thru his teeth)
Sweetness and Light/ABC ^ | 3/5/07 | Steve Gilbert/Jake Tapper

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.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: hillary; obama; osama; pander; selma
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To: pissant

Lots mo' Hussein ---->>>

http://www.freerepublic.com/~beckwith/


61 posted on 03/06/2007 6:55:34 AM PST by dennisw (What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
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To: pissant

The Democrat minstrel show heads south. Didn't Obama say he had been there "befo'"?


62 posted on 03/06/2007 6:56:23 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: YoungSoutherner

Sums it up well. Coulter was ruthless. Google coulter and Halle berry and you may find her comments.


63 posted on 03/06/2007 6:57:20 AM PST by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: dennisw

Thanks!


64 posted on 03/06/2007 6:57:36 AM PST by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: Mike Darancette

Obama and Hillary doing blackface.


65 posted on 03/06/2007 6:58:04 AM PST by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: dennisw

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.


66 posted on 03/06/2007 7:00:18 AM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: period end of story

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.


67 posted on 03/06/2007 7:01:49 AM PST by YoungSoutherner (To be young and conservative)
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To: pissant
HILLARY DOES SELMA (phony drawl 'n Saul, y'all)
68 posted on 03/06/2007 7:02:05 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: pissant

"Ears Obama is as an empty suit as ever has run for President."
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Even emptier than Hitlery"s pantsuit?


69 posted on 03/06/2007 7:04:00 AM PST by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: YoungSoutherner
To me a mixed race person is biracial, but to a liberal the child can only be black.

True. I have nieces who are part white/Filipino, and they look pretty mixed.

70 posted on 03/06/2007 7:06:34 AM PST by period end of story ("Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothing he don't mean.")
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To: Long Island Pete

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.


71 posted on 03/06/2007 7:10:29 AM PST by YoungSoutherner (To be young and conservative)
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To: pissant

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.


72 posted on 03/06/2007 7:13:07 AM PST by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: Sender

Don't you hate when people try to be like us Southern folks for their own personal gain.


73 posted on 03/06/2007 7:14:46 AM PST by YoungSoutherner (To be young and conservative)
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To: pissant

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.


74 posted on 03/06/2007 7:16:00 AM PST by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. [Congress is in session.])
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To: YoungSoutherner

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.


75 posted on 03/06/2007 7:18:07 AM PST by Sender (Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.)
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To: RipSawyer

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.


76 posted on 03/06/2007 7:19:22 AM PST by YoungSoutherner (To be young and conservative)
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To: RipSawyer

BTTT


77 posted on 03/06/2007 7:21:40 AM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: pissant

Since Obama's father was not an African-American in the first place, this is just more left-wing nonsense.


78 posted on 03/06/2007 7:26:33 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: pissant

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.


79 posted on 03/06/2007 7:26:38 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: pissant

Obama Osama Hussein - for more ears.


80 posted on 03/06/2007 7:29:27 AM PST by baubau (BOYCOTT Bank of America for Issuing Credit Cards to 3rd World Illegal Aliens.)
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