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.

[Grampa Dave]

Then during the speech praise Allah in Arabic like he apparently did when he had that outfit on.

[RoseofTexas]

Sounds to me that OSama is NOT black enough for Juan Williams to be prez. I don’t blame him!

[rock_lobsta]

What can he really say or do besides plead that we all just get along???

That in and of itself is an empty platitude.

If were serious about healing race relations, Hussein (as the living breathing tri-racial, tri-continental melting pot) should have made a call for forgiveness.

However, all we get is 'Rev. Wright is a black thing - you wouldn't understand.'

Forgiveness, indeed.

[OpusatFR]

Very definitely.

The whole sense that they have a racial identity that will never be understood by whitey who is too racist and mean to get it, is a no go.

[syriacus]

Lots of flags behind the podium. Eight of them. Guilty overcompensation?

[OB1kNOb]

It's shaping up like I've expected all along. By the time the democratic socialist's convention comes around, Osamabama will be begging Hitlery for the VP slot.

Like izlam, she gave him three chances to voluntarily convert to the VP candidate before she unleased her jihad against his achille's heel, his pastor, the racist Jeremiah Wrong.

[processing please hold]

I'm not watching. My little girl is writing her spelling words and I'm cheating by being here. :)

I've only heard him speak on youtube.

[jackv]

Ha! I doubt the man ever stands up to anyone.

[TomGuy]

white America doesn't understand black ways of speaking.

We dumb white hicks should consider electing Hillary. She knows about plantations and how to talk Black and she is "no waze tired."

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I actually think it is a decent speech and will help. The media will love it. Obama will escape damaged, but not dead.

Agreed, BO didn't hit it out of the ballpark, but the speech is also not a pure "swing and a miss".

[Scarpetta]

This problem has always been with us. My black next door neighbor is seemingly lovely, but her relatives look at me with daggers in their eyes. They, in a word, hate me because I'm white. I had to move out of Philly because of the surly, unpredictable, nature of the natives.

It is a thin veneer most blacks have that keeps their resentment of whites from being exposed.

[Bender2]

Am watching CNN for opposition research and they are falling all over themselves to backup Obama and their ‘experts’ are making the case that it is, of course, all us White Folks at fault!

[adm5]

I just read his entire speech. Here is the Cliff Notes version for you all.

"It's a Black Thang, Whitey Don't Understand."

[Dinah Lord]

I know Abraham Lincoln and Obama is no Abe Lincoln

[Red_Devil 232]

He is having to control his wife ... why he is late!

[fatima]

They don’t.

[jdm]

I’m watching the FOX online stream. Hopefully if you’re watching on TV you heard that bit too. Otherwise that post I made would have made no sense. LOL.

[toddlintown]

Is he going to talk like a white guy today or just get jiggy?

[Grampa Dave]

I didn’t know that Sam and I had a barbeque pig place.

Great!

Best laugh of this morning.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

“if the Dem powers reach the inevitable conclusion that Barack is UNELECTABLE”

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Then their fallback position is get control as C-I-C is C-A-C — CHEAT and CORONATE ...