Posted on 03/18/2008 6:12:13 AM PDT by 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.
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Don’t forget Herman Cain. But forget Condi. She’s a disaster.
” It takes a ghetto.”
...To raise a hate-filled child.
Dems will now demand he return to the Plantation as a well-paid overseer...
Well thanks so much for the explanation.
I didn’t know this.
Sin of slavery? Slavery isn’t a sin, in and of itself.
Abusing slaves, and not offering slaves their freedom in the Year of Jubilee, could be sins. I’m talking about what the Bible says about slavery, and the Bible ought to be our source of what is and what isn’t a sin.
Obama is just one more politician who either doesn’t know the Bible, or misuses the Bible for political gain. Or both.
LoL. That is good!
Watched the speech and Obama puts Billy to shame as far as being slick.
Look at the silly monkey.
Or PB&J.
“I did hear that,,a call for black and white to unite, acknowledge each other’s anger and distrust, and move right on into fighting the “man”,,the capitalist.
He is a Marxist, no doubt about it. But he is not a racist and I don’t think he is divisive racially. Blacks won’t like that. Whites distrust him.
Meanwhile the capitalists have the most to fear”
If Obama, hillary or mcCain bring down capitalism then we all will starve.
Marxism/Socialism doesn’t work.
Capitalism = freedom, private property and human rights.
Capitalism is what created our civilization because socialism ( no private property) has never worked.
Milton Friedman:
“7. Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
8. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
Black? I wouldn't exactly say black, I'd say pale complected with features strongly influenced by ancestors from the African continent.
Click your heels three times and say,”I REFUSE TO FEEL GUILT FOR BEING WHITE!!!”.
Its because he figuers that a FOIA of his SS detail whereabouts will determine that in fact he attended such services by his mentor.
Bump.
Haven’t Democrats been doing that for atleast 40 Years?
The problem with Obama's solution is that Blacks in the Black community are opening up shops, small businesses, trying to succeed. A dose of socialism in the form of higher taxes, regulations, government control just knocks them back down.
The Dem superdelegates must be peeing in their pants right now. They know that these views will not endear Obama with the majority white vote. But how do they throw Obama over the side while keeping the black vote Democratic?
I think Wright is like a father to him. I think he loves Wright and knows Wright is wrong,,hahhaha, no pun intended.
I do think he started to talk about race relations in a way that was not disturbing.
And I think that black racism and white racism both exist and the position of loving someone who is a racist is something many know. We all have people in our lives with whom we profoundly disagree but love anyway.
Wish I knew as he lost me completely there. However I disagree with many who say he's toast as the speech surely will touch a chord in many, especially the young voters. Some parts moved me, others I found insulting but overall it was heartfelt and well delivered.
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