LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech

Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

[SE Mom]

Barack Obama is preparing to deliver a major address Tuesday on race, politics and unifying the country after being hounded by questions about his relationship to a pastor whose sermons have been laced with anti-American invective.

In a speech whose religious significance could compare to one given in December by former GOP presidential hopeful and Mormon Mitt Romney, Obama may be forced to explain the philosophy of the 8,000-strong Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the Democratic presidential candidate has been a congregant for 20 years.

In announcing the morning address, to be delivered in Philadelphia, Obama would not say specifically what he will discuss, but suggested he wants to cool down the atmosphere after incendiary remarks by his pastor, retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., blanketed the airwaves over the past week.

[null and void]

Now, waiting to see the DBM call Hussein the next MLK.

April Ryan, American Urban Radio Network.

[rock_lobsta]

The initial headlines

CBS: Obama Urges Move Beyond “Racial Stalemate”
ABC: Obama: Pastor Has Distorted View, But He Is Family to Me
NBC: Obama: Racial anger is ‘real’
FOX: Obama Condemns Pastor, But Won’t ‘Disown Him’
CNN: Obama: Constitution stained by ‘sin of slavery’
NYT: “I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election.”

[metmom]

How so?

[jennyjenny]

Oh my. Now April on Fox is saying Wright merely “stretched” things a bit in his sermons.

[IndyTiger]

Meanwhile the capitalists have the most to fear.

I fear an Obama administration much more than a Hillary Clinton administration. Obama is a socialist, while Hilliary is an opportunist.

[rollo tomasi]

Did he squash the Wright controversy and paint the folks who are continually replaying Youtube clips as raise baiters?

Trying to but the fact remains, Obama paid $$$ to have "GD America" blasted from the pulpit.

[Red_Devil 232]

Black woman on Fox News, April Ryan, heard a different speech than I did!

[sarasota]

Who said that??

[fml]

Bingo...

[metmom]

He was for him, before he was against him..... but he’s still for him, except for a few things he’s against.

[longtermmemmory]

Ashley is a WHITE WOMAN who is working for Obama.

Ashley is a single mother’s daughter who was victimized by the eeeeevil pharmacutical industry.

BIG FATHER GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE SPENT YOUR TAX DOLLARS to help ashley.

CNN’s women have ugly hairstyles. Same relevance.

Obama is a racist.
Obama is finished.

[JFC]

the CNN black man host has said.. wow what a speech. It gave me chills! Biased CNN..... no way!

[null and void]

The Clintons are smart enough to know a race-baiter when they see one.

It takes one...

[sarasota]

A FReeper predicted just that before the speech began.

[TomGuy]

Ashley ate mustard and ketchup sandwiches

I have a nephew who, as a child, would only eat lettuce and mustard sandwiches. His mother even went to school to explain to teachers that that was all he would eat.

[rock_lobsta]

Can’t wait to hear Rush...I might even leave work early today.

No radio today. :(

[TSgt]

The Clintons are smart enough to know a race-baiter when they see one.

I'm shocked he took the approach that he did instead of distancing himself from the racial rhetoric. He painted himself as an racial extremist who is beholden to perceived injustices rather than a uniter. He may have just set blacks back for many years rather than opening the door to the presidency. Incredible...

[R_Kangel]

OK

If the MSM was as critical against this speech as they are against any speech that a Republican or conservative would give , the following headline would be splashed all over the front page headlines of every news rag in the country,

It would say the following:

OBAMA LIES!!!!

After spending the past week denying to the contrary,.....

He asks: Did I ever hear him (Wright) make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church?

Answer: Yes."

[Miss Didi]

Excellent post. It would have been better if he had gone on Oprah’s couch and cried.

[sarasota]

Don’t know her. Is she Black?