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.

[toddlintown]

“You white folks don’t understand” card.

[roses of sharon]

I still don’t understand one thing.

WHY would he allow his children to be agitated to hate?

Why does he WANT his children to feel hated?

Does he think this will help them in the future?

[jdm]

What is the world coming to when a major Presidential candidate is using phrases like “gang banger.” Can you imagine Bush or Reagan talking that way?

[JFC]

Sorry Obama, I as a white american, don’t buy that about the racist pastor being like family.

[rock_lobsta]

THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM, which is the foundation of this church. It is a racist document. Obama should be asked about whether he subscribes to this document.

He's going to be answering as many questions as Cankles prior to February.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBBa2NdHXM

[CedarDave]

Blame the media and youtube!

Thank goodness for talk radio and the internet or we'd never know this about Obama.

[mware]

Now saying he has never heard his minister say a racist word about a white person.

Ah.....so the KKK of America is not racist????

[maggief]

White granny is afraid of black men walking down the street.

[ninergold3]

Is he saying that the crazy man only said these things a few times??? WhatEver. . .

[Dinah Lord]

What about the racial and ethnic slurs uttered by his Kenya clan..

Kunta Kinte (sp?)

[jdm]

Obama can’t disown a lifelong racist?

Okie-do-kie.

[syriacus]

Obama: Services in Wright’s church might seem jarring to some people unfamiliar with such things. Wright always treats whites with courtesy and respect. I cannot disown him any more than I can disown the black community or my white grandmother. His grandmother has uttered racial, ethnic stereotypes that have made him cringe.

[TomGuy]

His mother cringed at passing Black men on the street?

[Apparently not all of them.]

[spectre]

Wright ALWAYS treats whites with courtesy and respect...You can't make this stuff up, LOL..

[jbarkley]

Nice for him to throw his grandmother under the bus.

The difference Obama, is that you could have walked away from Wright at any time, but your grandmother is family. REAL family. Idiot.

[maggief]

Thank goodness for talk radio and the internet or we'd never know this about Obama.

I was thinking the same thing ...

[rock_lobsta]

a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street

For no reason at all, right, Hussein?

[SpaceBar]

He still refuses to condemn Adolf Wright.

[Kozak]

Yeah well, my life is

“A caucasian experience you could not comprehend”.