Posted on 03/18/2008 10:53:47 AM PDT by HD1200
I have seen a like intro referencing crying at several left wing message boards a dozen times already.
OK, this is what we are up against people. Crybabies that start crying over political speeches! Unbeleivable! Just who ARE these people that would cry over a political speech given solely because the guy was backed into a corner over an issue? To CRY over it?
His defense of the Reverend was gross. IT STINKS
These people would be a biglp in a real emergency.
Liberals love to feel guilty when it suits them. Try talking to them about the slaughter of millions of unborn babies, however, and not a tear will be shed.
Bleeding heart, knee jerk liberal DhimmiRats, generally.
Oh...was that rhetorical question?
How many people fainted?
His speech was empty and devoid of any actual content other than platitudinous esoteric feel-good-isms.......
Because its so funny.
He ducked the issue.
Obama = Charlatan and LIAR.
Been peeling the onions again, have you?
Obama knows how to push their white liberal guilt button.
According to Rush Limbaugh today, Obama discusses his tactics for doing this in one of his books.
March 18, 2008
Obama’s courageous speech
Obama says he can no more disown the “white America” hating Wright than he can disown his grandmother who, he says, occasionally uttered racial epithets. “These people,” he intones “are a part of me, and they are a part of America, this country that I love.”
But there is a key difference between Obama’s grandmother and Rev. Wright. Not only is his connection with Wright voluntary, but Obama selected Wright to be his spiritual leader. If he still says Wright is “part of me” (and he can longer claim that he doesn’t know the full scope of Wright’s hatred of “white America”), then he should be judged for containing that “part.”
It will not do to say that Wright is “part of America.” Lots of deplorable people are part of America, including white racists. Political candidates are not required to embody every strand of America, much less the most noxious hate-filled ones. Political candidates embrace the strands that speak to them, and we should embrace the political candidates whose strands of thinking speak to us. No other candidate for president contains Wright’s thinking as “part of them.” In all likelihood, no other remaining candidate takes Wright’s views seriously.
Obama admits the obvious — that he does take Wright’s views quite seriously. He states:
The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.
Here, Obama not only welcomes the comments and issues raised by Wright into our national dialogue, but claims that we can’t “solve challenges like health or education” without working through these comments and issues. Obama should be required to explain why he thinks, for example, we can’t substantially improve our health care system without “working through” whatever “complexity” is associated with such comments as Wright’s claim that the U.S. brought 9/11 on itself. Part of the answer, though certainly not a sufficient one, is that Obama takes Wright’s comments seriously, even though he does not agree with them. They are, as he has said, provocative from his perspective.
Although Obama’s speech is not without its evasions, I consider it a courageous one by usual political standards. He has refused to walk away from Wright’s black liberation theology when it might well have been expedient to do so. The rest of us now should have the courage to take Obama at his word and decide whether it is acceptable to elect as president of the United States someone who carries Rev. Wright around as part of him, and who takes his ranting seriously.
powerline blog
Heck, I thought there was a lot of content. Especially the part where he said anyone who voted for Reagan or listens to talk radio is a racist.
I didn’t listen—I did read some of it (until my eyes glazed over), and I agree that it might make some cry. There’s a lot to cry about: the state of this country that such a bigoted, hateful, lying empty suit would get this far in the political process should make us ALL cry. To think he’s a senator, let alone President hopeful, is tragic.
And blaming Reagan and Conservatives for racism.
The Rev. is a V-I-C-T-I-M.
Cried? I threw up my breakfast.
Part of the defense of the “good” Rev was to throw his grandma under the bus and compare her private and relatively benign comments to the spew of his racist pastor. Nice job Obama.
Hussein is a deceiver, slicker than slick Willy.
He is saying what the racist hate-mongering Rev. Wright
is saying, but in code,and with tremendous eloquence.
He is the Rasputin of racial politics, the franz Mesmer
of the masses.
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