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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Probably a bunch of braindead Philly party hacks.
Juan.W is BHO’s kryptonite.
Juan has been great on this issue. But he has a big crush on Mrs. Clinton. ;)
Well, I thought it was a very good speach.
It addressed that Obama is a Christian, and denounces the Rev Wrights comments, while understanding where they come from.
I liked all of it except the part about getting out of a war that should never have been authorized.
I would feel comfortable voting for Obama except for his cut and run Iraq plan and what that implies for national security.
The rest of his Liberal agenda I can understand, though not fully embrace. (more taxes).
LLS
Why is it okay that for the past week he said he was never present when these things were said and that had he been, he would have stood up and said something, yet today he admits he was present and did absolutely nothing for 20 years?
Obama was essentially an orphan, abandoned by his parents and raised by his white grandparents. I agree that he seems to have found in “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright his father figure for the father he never knew. His personal tragedy is that the man he chose is going to be the undoing of his presidential campaign, and that is fine with me.
We don’t choose our parents, but he chose this guy when already an adult in his mid-20s, and he cannot escape the burdens of that chosen association now. This is not just one of numerous cousins, one of whom happens to be kinda nutty but you try to humor him because he is after all ‘family’ — Obama chose to build his adult life around this so-called “minister” and his church. It is the central fact of his life for 20 years outside of his wife and family (who are also integrally built into this church).
I can certainly understand why Obama can’t (and won’t) now run too fast away from the man who has been the central guiding mentor of his life. However, objective voters should look at this just as they would look at an Obama-twin who had been Farrakan the main mentor of his adult life.
Missed the al taqiyya fest...
Did it take everyone’s eyes off Islam and Rezko?
Did it further destroy Christianity?
It did it’s job then. /s
P.S. Which of us did he blame btw?
For decades (50-70s), my troop had the city concession for putting up flags on the city streets in front of businesses who were on a subscription basis.
Although we replaced the ones that were truly getting "well-worn," most flags showed some aging, as they, too, were veteran attestations to our unique American heritage.
I suspect the Obama campaign has no more kept a supply of flags near at hand than it has a supply of American flag lapel pins.
HF
Rush also said that Mrs. Clinton was watching from her hotel room and is wondering when the house will fall on her head.
LLS
The fallout can be a repetition of the O.J. verdict, Black America’s response to the verdict, and White America’s reaction to Black America’s response.
Play Taps for him.
Rush: “Obama is an ultra-liberal. He sees ‘soup line America’. He sees everyone in “groups”... Interesting to see Obama’s character, his judgement with his association with Rev. Wright... we did get a little more insight into Obama’s views, which are class envy, class warfare... they (liberals/democRATs) are miserable... ‘life, liberty is under attack’ because they don’t trust voters to do the right thing... they can’t/won’t be happy because so many in America are miserable...”
If his numbers go up - and with the DMB fawning, how can it not - BHO will have outdown BJC exponentially.
Shyster of the Century. 1000% more slickness than the Shyster of the Last Century.
B Hussein used the Ashley story before, after he lost the Nevada Primary. Word for word, I think even the pauses are the same
‘...How is it he took his children to hear such hate...’
Listening to Rev Wright’s anti-America rants, imho, could easily indoctrinate, not only Obama’s children, but all other young people who sat in that Church hearing their Pastor, who they believe in, repeatedly spout hateful comments about America and the white race. Didn’t Mr. Obama think that this worked against his objectives to unite people and all he wants to change?
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