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Obama lectures us on race, gender and equality. Obama's speech text
Drudge ^ | 3/18/2008 | Senator Obama

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; demagogue; jeremiahwright; macacamoment; nobama; obama; obama2008; race; racebaiting; racehustler; religiousleft; speech; thephillyspeech; transcript
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To: Nutmeg08

He doesn’t understand the problem isn’t what particular crazy hatred Wright says. It’s Obama keeps going back for more and more of this hatred. It’s Obama’s total lack of judgment that is the problem. Running for president and continuing to go to the hate speeches and then claiming you know nothing, ala Sargent Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes, sad.


21 posted on 03/18/2008 7:40:24 AM PDT by Nutmeg08 (Keep on keeping on)
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To: Nutmeg08

bump


22 posted on 03/18/2008 7:40:31 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: FooBarBaz
Ok, just so I’m translating properly, when a politician wants to “move forward and discuss the issues” they mean that they want to “ignore that thing that’s killing me in the polls”, yes?

You nailed it. Kind of like Bill CLinton's MOVE ON (www.moveon.org).

23 posted on 03/18/2008 7:40:49 AM PDT by stockstrader (Hoping for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like hoping to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: stockstrader
He’s building anticipation and suspense (and a larger viewing audience).

He's a smart politician, then!

24 posted on 03/18/2008 7:40:51 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Nutmeg08
I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy – particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.

Oh really. Really?
25 posted on 03/18/2008 7:41:25 AM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: F15Eagle

Cough, cough, cough, bullsh!t cough, cough


26 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:10 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: massgopguy
Read it, didn't listen to it. I thought it was brilliant. He managed to "dis" Wright, while still espousing many of the "reverend's" views. He, for the first time in my memory, acknowledged that whites have racial concerns too---that it's not all one sided.

The conservative response probably shouldn't be to keep beating the J. Wright horse, but to now attack exactly what he said---that the schools SUCK (and why is that, after what has been, essentially, 60 years of Dem policies?), that we've lost a lot of factory jobs (and why is that, after MI and OH have wrapped themselves in Dem policies that make us utterly uncompetitive?), and that health care is expensive (and why is that, given that we've demonized the drug compnaies and allowed John Edwards and the trial lawyers to sue doctors for everything they have?). This is where the battle can move, to POLICY, where now, instead of just criticizing the Dems, we can show how our policies WORK and theirs don't.

27 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:10 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: stockstrader

The ironic thing about “moveon.org” was their inability to “moveon” beyond florida 2000.


28 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:47 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Nutmeg08

It’s clever all right. But I don’t know if I can believe it. It sounds good. but I don’tknow if it is just a matter of trying to be all things for all people in an effort to get elected or if it is meant sincerely. And I haven’t seen a plan as to how to get there from here. The great Chameleon.


29 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:47 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Nutmeg08

“Four score and seven years ago.........”


30 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:48 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Anonymous Rex
He admits being in the church when some of the comments in question were made (so he now is a confessed liar)...

EXACTLY!!! Prior to this, he 'claimed' he had only heard 'one or two' of those hateful, venomous and racist comments.

31 posted on 03/18/2008 7:42:52 AM PDT by stockstrader (Hoping for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like hoping to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: Nutmeg08
I read a little of it. My general impression is that it will not help because it strikes me as the joke that has to be explained, which of course is then not a joke.
People have been blitzed with way more politics than they want to deal with. If anyone believes the average voter who does not like Obama for any of a number of reasons will read this and say “Oh ok now I understand! I now support Obama!”, is fooling himself. Such “Saul to Paul” moments don't happen all that often and certainly would happen in this case.
32 posted on 03/18/2008 7:43:12 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: Nutmeg08

I would suggest preparing yourselves for the MSM heralding this as equivalent to Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech. And if truth be told, it is a decent speech.

But it still does not make up for the reprehensible statements of Obama’s pastor and Obama’s failure to take action. Not because he doesn’t go as far as he possibly can in a speech to distance himself from Wright. It does not “fix” this simply because it is not fixable. Wright is certainly entitled to his opinion and to the free expression of it. But it is hateful. It is divisive. It is racist.

Obama should have left the church and Jeremiah Wright long ago. Mentor or not.


33 posted on 03/18/2008 7:43:48 AM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: LS

Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.


34 posted on 03/18/2008 7:43:54 AM PDT by Anonymous Rex ( For Rent)
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To: LS

Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.


35 posted on 03/18/2008 7:43:55 AM PDT by Anonymous Rex ( For Rent)
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To: Nutmeg08

It was stained by this nation?s original sin of slavery (text from Obama’s speech) Original Sin of Slavery..did not begin in America..duh Obama.... It began in Africa... read the Bible..ask Moses...


36 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:00 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Nutmeg08

“we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity”

From the party that divided the nation over a war which would inevitably need to be fought for our very existence we get lectured on the need for unity...

Now isn’t that the Pot calling the Kettle a Pot....


37 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:05 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Standing by for the: if your not with us your a racist tactic.)
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To: stockstrader
He’s building anticipation and suspense (and a larger viewing audience).

Actually, a lot of people are at work or need to get there. What appears to be a broad-themed speech may not be sufficient to allay the concerns of many who want to know how in the world he got caught up in this hate cult.

It's also interesting that the man who had reservations about wearing a flag pin on his lapel, now has eight beautiful flags on stage.

38 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:20 AM PDT by Zechariah11
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To: LS

Well...yeah...THAT is the elephant in the room.....why are people DEMOCRATS!!!!!?????? Their policies NEVER work...like the Socialism he espouses.


39 posted on 03/18/2008 7:44:24 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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