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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

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; bigot; bigotbarack; blacktheology; dncfalseprophets; elections; falseprophets; hatewhitey; hitler; ideologue; jeremiahsmessiah; jeremiahwright; liberalracism; nobama; obama; politicsofoppression; racism; taqiyya
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To: Crawdad

hey, that is my line!


341 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:49 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
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To: fatima

“I-95 is shut down at a few exits because of a steel beam-my words.Traffic is a mess.”

Fracking honkey civil engineers. It’s a conspiracy. Obama’s trying to build bridges..../s


342 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:51 AM PDT by toddlintown (On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")
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To: SE Mom

Both CNN guest just said all whites are racist because whites set the terms for discussion. They also said that blacks don’t worship with whites. My very large church has a large congregation of African-Americans.


343 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:52 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: CedarDave

Even people on CNN are commenting about the flags
lol


344 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:01 AM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: TomGuy
The danger Obama and his spinners have with continuing to perpetuate the “Blacks use a different vocabulary than others” is that it implies the “others” are too stupid to understand Blacks. That could backfire.

I'd say it could backfire. It's a racist statement in and of itself.

345 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:09 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: AGreatPer
You can bet this was a planned delay to get maximum noon time news coverage.

No, I bet he lost a good chunk of the audience. He needed a warm up band to fill in.

346 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:17 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Always Right
I actually think it is a decent speech and will help. The media will love it. Obama will escape damaged, but not dead.

Obama could read the phone book and the Drive-Bys would do cartwheels.
347 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:20 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: syriacus
CNN: How will this speech play? Speech incredibly important.

Candy: He has to breach the racial divide [sic]

Huge task. Herculean.

348 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:25 AM PDT by syriacus (Michelle-O was proud of U of C volunteers in 1997. When did she become "unproud" of America?)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Sorry, that didn’t come up.

http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id= href=”mailto:33004@wbbm.dayport.com”>33004@wbbm.dayport.com


349 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:35 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Is that it, pretty much?

Oh ease up, that's not the take I got from his comment.

350 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:50 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (God Bless George W. Bush)
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To: JFC


"Testing 1, 2, 3. Testing 1, 2, 3.
Mic check. Mic check. How's that? How ya like me now?"

351 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:53 AM PDT by jdm ("You only live once and usually not even then." - Michael O'Donoghue)
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To: syriacus

Katrina did show that LIBERAL black leaders do not know how to take care of their people, letting them live in squalor FOR DECADES, FGS!


352 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:55 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: tobyhill

“They also said that blacks don’t worship with whites.” Must be talking about Atlanta, CNN HQ.


353 posted on 03/18/2008 7:45:57 AM PDT by toddlintown (On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")
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To: sweetiepiezer

Yes, I’m wondering if the “preacher” voice is going to come out today.


354 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:09 AM PDT by jbarkley
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

Get off da stage white man!


355 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:13 AM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: TomGuy

The whole concept of blacks using a different vocabulary than whites is ...really disconcerting.

Here we go...the speech begins now..


356 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:13 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: jdm

lol......


357 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:18 AM PDT by JFC
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To: AGreatPer

or to go to speech “B” or “C”, dependent upon reaction to his SUPPOSED speech “A” which hasn’t been given yet..


358 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:19 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (If the left doesn't want me to say Barack HUSSEIN Obama, I WON'T say HUSSEIN..I promise,)
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To: roses of sharon

To be hear TONIGHT? This guy hasn’t a clue.


359 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:21 AM PDT by jdm ("You only live once and usually not even then." - Michael O'Donoghue)
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To: Grampa Dave

360 posted on 03/18/2008 7:46:24 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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