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LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech
Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

Posted on 03/18/2008 6:12:13 AM PDT by SE Mom

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To: sageb1
Al Sharpton was just up on FOX and he declared that the United Church of Christ is a "white denomination", so consider that.

I didn't know there were white and black denominations, unless one has the word "African" added to it.

141 posted on 03/18/2008 7:16:20 AM PDT by Sender (Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.)
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To: SE Mom
Curious.

For someone who refuses to wear an American Flag pin on his lapel, he apparently intends to stand on a stage filled with flags to give this oration.

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142 posted on 03/18/2008 7:16:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: nuconvert

I have a link to that location, but I don’t know if it’s where he is going to speak. For a person who doesn’t hold his hand over his heart during the pledge or the national anthem, the setting reeks of hypocrisy.

http://foxnews-stream1.wm.llnwd.net/foxnews_stream1


143 posted on 03/18/2008 7:16:42 AM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you treat conservatives the way you do fellow senators John, Hillary and Barack?)
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To: SE Mom

You go to a Catholic Church because you are Catholic
You go to a Lutheran Church because you are Lutheran
You go to a Synagog because you are Jewish
You go to a Racist, Hate Mongering Church because you are a Racist, Hate Monger yourself.


144 posted on 03/18/2008 7:16:48 AM PDT by JayAr36 (What good has Islam provided for the World?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You’ll take notice that the Trinity Church website has been TOTALLY revamped over the weekend?

The “I hate White People” and the archived sermons are gone now.


145 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:00 AM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: All

So what do you think Obama is really going to say today? How can he explain his continuing to be at a church where they support such hate? Because he continued to go to that church he was saying he agreed with everything that was being said there.

What can he say? NOTHING!


146 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:00 AM PDT by Halls (Hebrews 12:4)
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To: roses of sharon
Let's hear him say the Pledge of Allegiance before he begins.
147 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:05 AM PDT by fatima
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To: Halls

I read somewhere that Oprah left the church in 2005. The article didn’t say how long she was a member though.


148 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:11 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Vote Obama! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)
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To: MissMagnolia

I sincerely hope Senator Obama recognizes that his challenge goes far beyond Reverend Wright. If he is, indeed, a post-racial messenger he’s going to have to take on all the grievance peddlers who preach black nationalism/separatism.

“Hope” and “Unity” cannot be achieved as long as blacks are being indoctrinated to believe “whitey” is his oppressor and responsible for all his ills. Reconciliation cannot be one sided.

If Obama is to remain credible, he’s going to have to universally renounce black separatism and address its corrosive effect on African American progress. He can tell us all day long that HE doesn’t subscribe to it. But as long as he tolerates it among others, he will be seen as ignoring a major obstacle to racial reconciliation.

He has a wonderful opportunity. This could be his “Nixon goes to China”....or “Sistah Souljah”. Rather than retreat to the role of a black man scolding whites and blaming whites for racial discord he would surprise everyone if he instead scolded blacks for failing to grasp the olive branch when it’s offered. Now THAT would be earth shattering...and admirable.


149 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:23 AM PDT by Timeout
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To: rollo tomasi

Yes we can........
Yes we can..
Yes we can......

There is hope.....

Popcorn in your oatmeal gives it a little crunch.


150 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:35 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: roses of sharon

“Will he wear a flag pin?”

excellent question...
well we’ll soon find out


151 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:39 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: sweetiepiezer

:)Maybeee.


152 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:54 AM PDT by fatima
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To: rollo tomasi
It was reported that suddenly yesterday he started to end his stump speeches with “God Bless America”.

LOL, what a shyster.

153 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:56 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: SE Mom
Of course, he'll say “God Bless America” along with those flags behind him. So transparent that he is a con man. Black population and some white guilt liberals may buy this rot we are about to hear, but Obama is damaged goods, and this speech won't change that fact.
154 posted on 03/18/2008 7:17:58 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: SE Mom

my mother really believes that Obama is the “anti christ”, but she thought that about Kissinger also and that didn’t pan out.


155 posted on 03/18/2008 7:18:17 AM PDT by JFC
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To: TomGuy
Good grief...Why doesn't he just wrap himself in those American flags..!!

sw

156 posted on 03/18/2008 7:18:33 AM PDT by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: MissMagnolia

My response on another thread this week-

I can’t understand or know what it means to be a black American. I do understand the values my family taught me by example and by talking about race. During the marches in the 60’s a lot of folks in our town went with the minister of our church to march in the South with MLK and others. I remember it clearly- and the discussions we had in school, at church, around the table etc..My family taught me that all races are different- but all are equal. They used the example of ice cream- “ See how many flavors there are...but they’re ALL ICE CREAM”... It was normal for my friends (of different races) and me to think that way, and to behave that way.

I’ve tested those values out in the real world- they’ve never proven false or led me to a mistaken conclusion. My friends and acquaintances are from a variety of backgrounds and skin colors. That seems normal, because this is America and we’re all American. Aren’t we?

This Jeremiah Wright and his sermons has upset and shaken me more than I can express. For the first time in my entire life, I am suddenly looking at people’s skin color, first. I didn’t realize how little attention I’ve paid to skin color, until I suddenly started seeing it, if that makes sense. Now I look around, at the store, in my neighborhood, my church and wonder...do these black people I see around me think of me the way Jeremiah Wright does? Am I hated and reviled for being a white woman by black people? Or just a couple..or a dozen..or all of them?

I’ve lost my bearings.


157 posted on 03/18/2008 7:18:34 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Halls
So what do you think Obama is really going to say today?

"Some of my best friends are white."

158 posted on 03/18/2008 7:18:57 AM PDT by Crawdad (If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck.)
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To: SE Mom
No matter what he says, he will be canonized my the drive-by's (especially PMSNBC) as the second coming of MLK.

Here's a preview...

Hope & Change, Smile & Wave, blah blah blah...

I denounce Rev. Wright, and all Republicans and Conservatives are racist thugs for the AUDACITY of his somewhat inappropriate sermons.

Oh yeah, all you whitey supporters are still racist, but there's HOPE for you - as long as you don't CHANGE and still vote for me.

159 posted on 03/18/2008 7:19:04 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: TornadoAlley3
My cartoon implies nothing as to racism or bigotry but I would most definately disagree that these two issues are not important in an election. As a black, white, yellow or red man and whether a person is a Catholic, Southern Baptist, or a Mormon, one has to be very concerned when a possible racist and/or bigot seeks the most powerful office in the world.

My cartoon simply implies that it is rediculous to think anyone could "sleep" through fire and brimstone sermons for twenty years. If they did, they do not to be in the Whitehouse.

160 posted on 03/18/2008 7:19:16 AM PDT by Muleteam1
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