Posted on 03/18/2008 7:30:10 AM PDT by Nutmeg08
"A More Perfect Union" Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10:17:53 ET
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.
Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States.
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The old woman was afraid of some blacks on the street. But some blacks on the street are violent and racist just as some white thugs are violent and racist.
Just another campaign speech.
Hillary and McCain should demand equal time.
It’s too bad that Eve Marie Carson didn’t have the same sense of danger when two black men approached her on the street. She might still be alive today:
http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880318011&source=rss
Empty words, for at this point, memories of Terri Schiavo come to the surface of my mind.
Obama went along with the other senators in a bid to save Terri's life, but he recently did a turnabout by admitting that he regretted his actions.
What happened to 'Let us be our sister's keeper'? I guess those sentiments didn't pertain to Terri.
Some of us will never forget.
We sure can! I like to call these people "Democrats".
Sh!t, there ain't a white man in this room that would change places with me.
None of you would change places with me. And I'm rich!
That's how good it is to be white.
There's a white, one-legged busboy in here right now...
that won't change places with my black ass.
He's going, "No, man, I don't wanna switch. I wanna ride this white thing out... See where it takes me."
Just like a billy goat giving a lecture on gardening.
Callers to Rush were evenly split. White people heard exactly what Wright said, and what Obama didn’t say. Blacks didn’t hear what Wright said, and imputed to Obama things he did not say.
There's an SNL skit here somewhere. It reminds me of slingblade.
There is one little angle that might still be effective, and that's that Obama said last week he wasn't in church when those things were said, and he said today he was. So that's a flagrant lie. Still, his followers are not going to care.
I teach on a university campus, and I can tell you the white libs there who were supporting him were backing away after the reverend's comments last week, but they will be right back on board when I return from break.
There is one little angle that might still be effective, and that's that Obama said last week he wasn't in church when those things were said, and he said today he was. So that's a flagrant lie. Still, his followers are not going to care.
I teach on a university campus, and I can tell you the white libs there who were supporting him were backing away after the reverend's comments last week, but they will be right back on board when I return from break.
Soooo, you must be “whitey” sayin the folk can’t hear what they want to hear. I mean you know, folk have a right to hear what they want to hear. Unnerstan?
Agreed
(2008-03-18) — Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, in what was billed by his campaign as a “major speech on race” in Philadelphia today shocked the Democrat party by announcing he has abandoned his bid to become the nation’s first black president.
“After a lot of prayer and conversations with my wife and Pastor Jeremiah Wright,” said Sen. Obama, “I have decided that the United States is not ready for a black chief executive. So today, I’m launching a campaign to simply become President of the United States, without regard to race.”
The son of a black, African father and a white, Kansan mother, Sen. Obama said he will formally suspend his attempt to achieve “a Civil Rights milestone”, and will put all his efforts into “making sure Democrats have a nominee who can challenge John McCain man-to-man.”
A spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said she would petition the Democrat National Committee to “nullify all of the primary votes cast for Sen. Obama because voters thought they were doing something historic, rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate.”
“Think about it,” the unnamed Clinton staffer said, “if Geraldine Ferraro had suddenly announced in 1984 she was running for vice president as a man, the Mondale-Ferraro ticket would have lost in a landslide.”
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That's all wiped away now in their minds. The 5% he lost will be back within a week. Watch the polls.
No, he’ll just give all the jobs to blacks under the auspices of “keeping hope alive.”
No, he’ll just give all the jobs to blacks under the auspices of “keeping hope alive.”
No, he’ll just give all the jobs to blacks under the auspices of “keeping hope alive.”
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