Posted on 03/16/2008 9:43:32 AM PDT by television is just wrong
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried "the forces of division" over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest. "We have to come together," he told a town-hall meeting at a high school. He cited videos of inflammatory sermons given by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him - remarks that Obama has denounced. "If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked," Obama said.
(AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a town hall meeting at... Full Image Obama suggested that more and more is being made of racial divisions as his contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton heats up. "I noticed over the last several weeks that the forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again. And I'm not here to cast blame or point fingers because everybody, you know, senses that there's been this shift," Obama said. "It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things." The Illinois senator's comments came a day after he denounced statements in videos appearing on television and on the Internet of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Chicago church Obama joined nearly 20 years ago. "Most recently, you heard some statements from my former pastor that were incendiary and that I completely reject, although I knew him and know him as somebody in my church who talked to me about Jesus and family and friendships."
(AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., walks through the door to enter a town... Full Image Obama said that pointing out racial differences only makes it harder to "deliver on the big issues we face in this country," which he said include health care, the slumping economy, terrorism and caring better for veterans. Obama, whose mother's family was from Kansas and his father from Kenya, said he was speaking "as someone who has little pieces of America all in me." He said schools should do a better job of teaching all students African-American history "because that's part of American history," as well as women's struggle for equality, the history of unions, the role of Hispanics in U.S. and other matters that he suggested aren't given enough attention. "I want us to have a broad-based history" taught in schools, he said, even including more on "the Holocaust as well as other issues of oppression" around the world. Obama spoke in the gymnasium of Plainfield High School, near Indianapolis, as he directed his political attention at states beyond the critical April 22 Pennsylvania primary. "We are going to be campaigning actively in Indiana," Obama said to cheers. Indiana and North Carolina have primaries on May 6, two weeks after Pennsylvania.
They have been ignored by the MSM to maintain democrat dominance but the cat's out of the bag.
The question remains: is there enough self-respect left in white Americans to recognize that hating someone for the color of their skin is wrong even if that color isn't a shade of brown?
Obama and the Pastor from Hell do not like whitey. Too bad.
What about the 50% drop out rate for blacks in high schools in many of our big cities?? I guess that is "Whitey's" fault too! /s
Why do I see the image of Obama saying this... while morphing into that scene from Casablanca where Captain Renault is closing Rick's because he found there was gambling there just as the croupier is giving him his winnings from roulette?
said he was speaking "as someone who has little pieces of [U S of KKK A] all in me"
I'm sure that Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama also was NEVER aware of his lovely wife's bitter, angry, anti-American beliefs and attitudes either!!!
“Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried “the forces of division” over race”
did he tell his wife and preacher?
no mention of the marxist preacher retiring as Hussein maintains.
Didn’t take long for the dreaded “R” word to appear, what is so much fun is these morons in the democratic party are using it against each other. What goes around comes around. It;s coming back to bite them in thier arzes
I read an article on the preacher talking about the flight from black churches to the black muslims, and how black liberation theology was in reaction to this.
With Wright’s relationship with Farrakahn, I think it’s accurate to call his church the christian equivalent of black muslim.
It’s pretty much the same theology and worldview.
And this is what Obama is going to have a hard time explaining and justifying.
He retires in June.
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A rhetorical trick; people associate KS with "middle-American" values. His maternal grandparents moved to the Left Coast and became Unitarians. His mother was a narcissistic antiAmerican hippie who married two Muslims, lived her adult life in the Third World off Ford Foundation and govt. money, and abandoned young "Barry" to be brought up by his grandparents.
I think Hussein said on Fox that “he has retired”.
He only wishes.
Obama can't speak of racism at his church being in the past tense, or something which has departed with the "retirement" of Rev. Wright.
http://www.trumpetmag.com/current_issue.cfm
"When the levees in Louisiana broke alligators, crocodiles and piranha swam freely through what used to be the streets of New Orleans. That is an analogy that we need to drum into the heads of our African American children."
This guy is a M-O-R-O-N.
[no offense meant to morons]
Obama is going to be toast after this in the general
election!
So, why were you friends with a racist dillweed for 20 years? Are you in the habit being friends with peole for 20 years and knowing nothing about them?
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