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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Maybe he’ll pull an Al Gore in Tibet -
“I remeber drinking a lot of ice tea and was in the bathroom when Wright made those statements”
Is he going to have an audience?
Are the Republicans asking for equal time?
Every network will compare him to Martin Luther King tonight. A remarkable, stirring, passionate address of the ills of this country. To make such a speach takes great courage and leadership...blah...blah...blah.
I think conservatives have missed the butt kicking that the Clintons gave them for eight years. Now get ready for the Clintons butt kicking again, enjoy.
Look for the media to give him a pass after this speech, saying it has “been addressed by Obama”. Out of fear, the Drive Bys will no longer speak about Obama’s racist America-blasting church.
Hollow words, Obamie. Hollow words.
The UnRev. Wright Affair, with his 9/11 is our fault, white people are bad and G-D America attacks do two ireperable things.
1: They scare the Soccer Mons and the other 20% ANY candidate needs to win the General/
2: After watching Wright, Obama’s speech making seems very ho-hum by comparison.
Like many candidates in the Dem primaries over the years, what propels them in the primary fatally gores them in the General.
Maybe he’ll say he wants his 20K back from the church, he’s divorcing Mrs. Bitterness and has decided to embrace the “white” side of his heritage, in honor of his mother and his grandparents.
Doubtful.
We’ll probably get a concentrated dose of the platitudes complete with a large side of super-swooning Obamabots in the periphery.
I’m not sure this speech is even worth popcorn.
Oh no Oprah went a few times some years back and then abruptly stopped going there. I’m sure she realized it’d destroy her (and I hope she absolutely didn’t like what was being preached).
Olbermann’s “Special Comment” tonight will likely be an “Obamagasm”.
And Chrissie will get his tingle back,,,
You done good, bo.
This didn’t work so well for Mitt.
So you’d rather have Obama?
Please share your analysis. I’ve been thinking about that speech too. It was “a speech for the ages.”
Hi SEM,
My take. If Barack cannot do this in 10-12 minutes tops he is done for. Might be done for anyway, but if he drones on for 30-40 minutes his numbers will sink like a rock.
Should be interesting though.
I wonder if Hillary is going to demand equal time.
Let’s see if he even mentions his white mother or grandparents
One good thing is that Obama should be done with the speech just in time for Rush to take it apart.
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