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Obama lectures us on race, gender and equality. Obama's speech text
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| 3/18/2008
| Senator Obama
Posted on 03/18/2008 7:30:10 AM PDT by Nutmeg08
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To: wardaddy
In the interest of brevity I was ignoring the nuances you point out. However, I will still disagree with you.
I look at it this way: The Republican party was formed as an abolitionist party. When a Republican got elected president, the southern states saw that the die had been cast and that things had changed, and they seceded. So, while the reason for the war was secession, it is also clear that the republican's desire to end slavery caused the secession to happen.
To: Hemingway's Ghost
I didn’t hear it, but read it. so you think it’ll play in Peoria?
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:43:39 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(I'm voting for McCain...and fixin' to get excited about it.)
To: wardaddy
Here's a link to an article from the Intenational Herald Tribune from April
2007, that indicates that Obama knew full well what the Rev. JWright was all about. There is no controversy, just fact. The beliefs and tenets of the Trinity Church are part and parcel of who Obama is.
Obama's Search For Faith
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
Eva
(Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
To: Nutmeg08
Obama's observation: Liberalism has completely failed to do what it was intended to do...
Obama's solution: We need lots and lots more of it...
Gritty's observation: I did not see one word in the speech about either the overriding requirement of applied individual character or application of genuine Biblical principles at any level to these problems (but I did see some phony ones, like "we are our brother's keeper")...
Gritty's solution: Therein lies both the root cause and solution to our current dilemma...
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:48:05 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(Obama walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere - actor George Clooney)
To: nikos1121
The second black man I’ve seen publicly scorn this....course Shelby is usually quite right.
Ted Williams on Great last nite surprised me by being pretty harsh on Wright and saying he torpedoed Obama...whom Ted did like.
But I noticed Leno and his band leader were still all Obama and hoping this would go away.
I chuckled about how they would react if this was about white racism....”wish it would go away”...lol
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:48:25 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
To: Nutmeg08
"I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners..."Conveniently neglecting to mention that HIS WIFE is married to a man who carries the blood of SLAVE OWNERS...but not of slaves. Surely an honest mistake (NOT)
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:48:25 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
To: ontap
that’s right...Hondo was about a river or something.
Hombre...Newman as an Indian half breed with a bandanna around his head who changes wardrobes to suit whichever race he is at the time and a broken down stagecoach surrounded by Richard Boone and some nasty peckerwoods and comancheros
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:50:32 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
To: j. earl carter
That argument is for another thread. and there are plenty here on that already.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:51:31 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
To: Eva
that is a good find
and from the IHT...a Wash Post org....hardly a Murdoch
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:53:03 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
To: Nutmeg08
It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreamsThat's exactly what most conservatives rightly believe, Barack.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:53:08 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: oneolcop
The “Separation Proclamation”
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:54:28 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
To: wardaddy
I was under the impression that it was a NYT paper, because a portion of the exact same article appeared in the NYT on the same date, under a different by-line.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:55:44 AM PDT
by
Eva
(Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
To: wardaddy
I’ve never seen Juan Williams as upset as he was and still is about Wright.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:55:47 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(I'm voting for McCain...and fixin' to get excited about it.)
To: Anonymous Rex
Now we know why his campaign staff recommend he didn’t give it. He did anyway.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:56:06 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
To: no dems
I turned the speech on for a second and he was going on about someone with cancer who lost their health care coverage. Believe me, I can sympathize with that situation but it certainly wasn’t anything soaring, sounded like the same old bleak view of America as a terrible place in which everyone is suffering and victimized by something. I’m sick of hearing that crap. Has Obama ever worked a day in his life?
To: expatpat
Then a black man here decided one of his indentured servants should remain so for the rest of his life, and got a judge to agree! Out of that came slavery in the US.The Casor decision, right?
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:56:55 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
To: Nutmeg08
or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.I think you just did speculate, Barack.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:57:28 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: frankenMonkey
It could be a blowout of Reagan/Carter proportions.
I didn't think Obama could get 51% of the vote to begin with.
Now that he's been exposed for the Hatriot that he is, I completely agree with you.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:57:58 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: LS
it was brilliant The decision to air it out was excellent. The speech was simply touching the bases. Some topics are bound to draw forth high flying rhetoric. Credit for airing it out.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:59:19 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: tomnbeverly
There are Muslim Caucazoids on his father’s side. I belive one paternal grandmother or great grandmother is Saudi.
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posted on
03/18/2008 8:59:30 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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