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.

[Democrat_media]

Martin Luther King, Jr was a Marxist and surrounded himself with admitted communists.

[ari-freedom]

we’ll have months to analyze and dissect obama’s response.

[John W]

True. Just watch Ted Williams on Greta some night for proof.

[jdm]

Now if Oprah ,(whitey works for me now) Winfrey thinks it was a bit much, it had to be pretty bad.

Yeah, Oprah has a pretty high tolerance for intolerance.

[MaestroLC]

This wont be a speech or an explanation, but a lecture. This is his arrogance. The real Barack we saw was on Fox last Friday, a con man and a liar. Today we get the Manchurian Candidate.

[jveritas]

Obama cannot win the general elections, Hillary Clinton can and probably will. As I said, prepare yourself for a lot of butt kicking by the Clintons.

[Dinah Lord]

Obama shaking finger., “I did not have sex with that pastor...”

[tiredoflaundry]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm the speech is a tad late......... Barry must be “praying “ with Rev Wright, before the speech.

[ltc8k6]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashos.htm

Text of speech, supposedly.

[rollo tomasi]

Just following the tradition set by the first black president, Bill “Sink Emperor” Clinton of being late and wasting other people’s time (While feeling the “power” rushing through the veins making everyone wait).

[jdm]

No integrity. Not even enough to be on time....sad

He's probably nervous as all get out.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Maybe he’s looking for more places to insert “hope” and “change.”

[Mercat]

My brother and sister in law belong to a UCC. Over the years I’ve been to a lot of services there - weddings, Baptisms, funerals. This one is where my sister in law’s parents met and married so there’s a long history. I haven’t heard any of the hate. The African Americans at the services I went to were probably there because grandpa Fred owned a business which employed them but who knows. The most controversial thing I’ve ever heard was the pastor, just before the “consecration” said that some believe that the bread and wine are Christ and some don’t but all are invited to share.

[kellynla]

So where is he?

I guess they’re trying to find an American lapel pin. LMAO

“Someone go down to the corner Walgreens and buy one of those MADE IN CHINA American lapel pins”

[rock_lobsta]

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?

There are exceptions, but unfortunately, that's the conclusion I've come to.

The exceptions, as you may well know, are black conservatives - for they are true in the Christian Spirit, and forgave.

[Always Right]

“Will he wear a flag pin?”

Probably a big cross around his neck.

[roses of sharon]

Now He Tells Us [Byron York]

From this morning’s Times:

In his many months of stumping, Mr. Obama has rarely bid farewell to an audience the way he did at a morning event in Monaca, Pa. “God bless you and God bless America!” he proclaimed.

03/18 08:29 AM

[Halls]

just read it. BLAH! Didn’t do enough for me!

[tobyhill]

Race will always be a factor as long as affirmative action controls America.

[RonnG]

When was the last time you saw a “rock star” begin his show on time?