Transcript of Obama speech on race

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[Migraine]

He did a great job of addressing the least offensive parts of Wright’s diatribes.

I am put off and nauseated by the anti-american parts. He, of course, didn’t even talk about that.

[RonF]

a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America,

A nutshell description of the extreme left's worldview.

[The_Republican]

The last story about Ashley got me definitely vaclipd or whatever Mike Myers felt on SNL. LOL!

[rocksblues]

Great speech if you believe America is the cause of all evil in the world.

[Izzy Dunne]

the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution -- a Constitution that had at its 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 that is precisely why people are riled up. NOT because of Wright's condemnation of flawed POLICY or flawed PEOPLE, but his condemnation of the ATTEMPT - his condemnation of the NATION itself. And you, Mr. O'bama, are too willfully blind to see that.

You're not so quick and up-front about milking it, but you did let it be milked.

[Repeal 16-17]

Obama wants the best of both worlds. He wants to be able to use Rev. Wright for the ways he feels that are positive. Regarding Rev. Wright’s hateful sermons, Obama wants to immunize himself from those sermons. I doubt anyone, other than his diehard supporters, will let him have it both ways.

[Former MSM Viewer]

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union...”

That is NOT from the Declaration of Independence.

That is the beginning of the Constitution...

The would-be President does not know his American history.

Obama says those words were from the Declaration of Independence in 1787...

GET IT RIGHT OBAMA!!!!!

[Oliver Optic]

What people see in this guy, I’ll never know.

There are tons of black politicians and preachers who can give better speeches than Obama.

And if you’re looking for a “unifying” figure, why anyone would look to the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate is beyond me.

Obama is just Jesse Jackson cleaned up real good.

[JaneNC]

How is attacking Republicans and talk radio unity? Do tell.

[Former MSM Viewer]

HEY OBAMA:

Here are the opening words from our beautiful Declaration of Independence...

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

[TornadoAlley3]

The black community has a wide chip on their collective shoulders as they look at us Whiteys almost daring us to knock it off.

[Former MSM Viewer]

Here is the complete text of the Declaration of Independence.

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html

[Oliver Optic]

By the way, did anyone notice this gem from Obama ... "the Christians in the lion's den"?

Um, not to be picky, Mr. Bible Scholar, but it was Daniel ... an Old Testament Jew.

[vietvet67]

[Larebil]

He is simply pastor wrights’ “Baghdad Bob.”

Spin it all you want b. HUSSEIN obama.

[21twelve]

“But it is a story that has SEARED into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts — that out of many, we are truly one.”

Why is it that they always use the “S” word when they lie? (If Obama is such a builder-upper, why does he go to church where the preacher is a tearer-downer?)

[massgopguy]

Hey Obama, way to throw your grandparents under the bus.

[jpf]

“...just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.”

Here we have Obama employing the Nixonian/Clintonian tactic of accusing someone of something awful while at the same time taking credit for NOT accusing someone of something awful.

[Eagle of Liberty]

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination -- and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past -- are real and must be addressed.

This paragraph sums up what I think Obama thinks of white people. He thinks that we have to come to terms with our original sin of slavery. The problem is is that MANY WHITES have already come to terms with it. The problem is that people like JWright, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama don't BELIEVE us. They think that we shouldn't just treat them as equals, but that we should bow down, kiss their feet and beg for forgiveness. Well, I'm sorry. I was not a slaveowner. None of my immediate family members were slaveowners. Nobody in my family is a racist and I am not going to be accused of treating black Americans as anything less than my fellow Americans.

I have one Lord that I look to to forgive my sins and that one Lord's name is NOT Barack Obama.