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.
...the same people who "uncovered" Obama's early drug usage also uncover the bigoted, hateful Reverend.
And it ain't us conservatives.
probably.
So I don't think it was us looking into Obama's church. We assumed "church" meant to him what it means to us. Apparently liberals knew better. That why I suspect the Hillary peoople.
CNN is already editing tapes to show the part that not too offensive. And they are one with the DNC...
Obama Decries Racial Rhetoric....
b. HUSSEIN’S rev-run can use the “N” word ~ he is not a racist.....
if a White person used the “N” word ~ they would be racist!!!
celebrate diversity and b. HUSSEIN’S ability to bring the races together!!!!
Yep. The moonbats in the RAT party will love the anti American bile the 'good' Rev spews, but it sure won't 'Play In Peoria'. There's simply no way Obama can explain away 20 years of following this 'jerk'.
[In comparison, Rev. Jeremiah Wright makes Jesse Jackson look like Patrick Henry.]
Yes, but the big difference is that "George Jefferson" was a comic TV character, while Obama is for real. Hopefully, Obama won't be "movin' on up" to the White House.
Obama Decries Racial Rhetoric....
you are racist he is not simply put
Do the DNC and these two bozos, who cannot run a primary within their own party, expect people to believe they can run the country?
They couldn't run a hot dog stand.
I know that, you know that, most of the p eople on this site know this.
trouble is the dems don’t get it and they are voting for these ignoramuses.
Not only that they are in love with them.
Juanito McCain stands a better chance against this Trotsky-like afro-centric... than he does the Stalin-like Jew-baiter, Hillary.
you got that one.
Obama is giving a religious speech tomorrow in Philly. As of now, the media won’t know where its at until 11 et tonight. Don’t want to tip off the union thugs ya know.
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