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Obama's Race Speech Heralded as Historic (The fainting has begun)
US News and World Report ^ | 3/18/08 | Liz Halloran

Posted on 03/18/2008 3:32:58 PM PDT by pissant

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To: pissant

Yeah, this country is so racist a black senator is running for president of the United States. lolol


21 posted on 03/18/2008 3:48:59 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: pissant
"Race was never an issue that was going to disappear," Pollard said. "It's too much a part of our national fabric to think that we can gloss over it and move on without having to contend mightily with each other."

Only because liberals, DemocRATS and race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton won't let go of it. It's part of what keeps them in power.

22 posted on 03/18/2008 3:49:10 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: pissant

The political left in this country is nuts. Unfortunately, they have a lot of unmerited and unearned influence in this society. I really don’t believe what they say matters.


23 posted on 03/18/2008 3:49:14 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: OpusatFR
Frankly, after his disavowals last week, this is more to the point of an “I got caught in a whopper” speech.

LOL!

24 posted on 03/18/2008 3:49:24 PM PDT by syriacus (Obama says >>> "Yes!! ...We CAN change!!! ...ALL of us can change....EXCEPT for Jeremiah Wright")
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To: newheart

Hmmmm....Howard University....a “black” university, which was STARTED by a WHITE GUY!!!!!!!


25 posted on 03/18/2008 3:49:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: pissant

One of the benefits of being a Leftist is that it doesn’t take too much to impress other Lefties. I see Obama getting an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony, a Golden Globe and probably the Nobel “Peace” prize for this “speech.” Ollie Stone or Mikey Moore will do the movie with Denzel playing Obama.


26 posted on 03/18/2008 3:50:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Global warming" CAUSES global cooling? Sounds like globaloney to me.)
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To: svcw
Anytime a black liberal puts together a grammatically correct sentence, he is a wonder and a credit to his race, in addition to being clean and articulate. This is why the media makes a fuss.

Liberals expect very little from black people in the way of achievement. That's why they champion affirmative action and gun control; the former to assuage their guilt for owning slaves and for starting the KKK and Jim Crow Laws, the latter to keep some remnant of control when they start thinking for themselves.

27 posted on 03/18/2008 3:50:49 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: pissant

Obama touched on white racism, but shied away from the reason for the speech, black racism that is rampant in America.

When 95% of the blacks in a primary vote for him that is racism. But what are the real campaign issues and what are his solutions to these issues besides change? What kind of change is he talking about?


28 posted on 03/18/2008 3:51:23 PM PDT by chainsaw (Monica Lewinsky's ex-sex partner's wife for Pesident ?....No Muslim in the WH either.)
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Obama's Race Speech Heralded as Historic

Yeah, I remember my first beer. I thought the label on the bottle was historic.

29 posted on 03/18/2008 3:51:42 PM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: pissant
This is probably not the way the Clinton campaign expected this to play out.

-PJ

30 posted on 03/18/2008 3:52:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: rabidralph

I think the USA should do the right thing, today March 18, 2008, all slaves in the USA should be freed and all slave owners in the USA jailed.


31 posted on 03/18/2008 3:53:19 PM PDT by svcw (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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To: pissant

It definitely is historic to attack your own grandmother to try to win votes. I thought I’d seen everything in politics, but apparently I was mistaken.


32 posted on 03/18/2008 3:53:38 PM PDT by devere
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To: pissant

Obama was raised by his White Grandmother?
I thought he was raised by his mother!


33 posted on 03/18/2008 3:53:38 PM PDT by Milligan
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To: pissant
Agreed ... mediocre speech. Pedantic. Hypocritical. Timid (Did he in the least challenge the thinking of his core black, liberal supporters?)

So this is the guy who is supposed to lead America to racial reconciliation? The same guy who has for 20 years been a loyal, committed member of a church that thinks white people are the enemies of God?

Twilight zone stuff.

34 posted on 03/18/2008 3:54:37 PM PDT by Oliver Optic
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To: processing please hold

“this country is so racist a black senator is running for president”

That brings up an interesting point. Consider a country that is supposedly racially tolerant, such as France. Try to find a black person who was risen above a middle management position in France. Try to find a black millionaire. Yet the U.S. is supposedly the worst country in the World when it comes to black opportunity.


35 posted on 03/18/2008 3:54:47 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: pissant

Reminds me of Richard Nixon’s “Checkers Speech” in 1952.


36 posted on 03/18/2008 3:56:51 PM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: goodnesswins
"Hmmmm....Howard University....a “black” university, which was STARTED by a WHITE GUY!!!!!!!"

Why yes, we have heard of the black white man
--Chief Dan George in "Little Big Man"
37 posted on 03/18/2008 3:57:43 PM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: popdonnelly
Nobody seems to point that out about the US when their screaming about racism. I don't see obama's preacher and everybody in that church running from such a racist country and going back to Africa to live in huts, eat grass soup and have their neighbor chop their family members into pieces with a machete. Yeah, blacks have it terrible here in the good old USofA.

This is just so surreal.

38 posted on 03/18/2008 4:03:01 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: pissant

Rush's commentary and analysis of the Obama speech, without a scintilla of Drive-By Media emotional swooning

Obama Speech Makes Presidential Campaign About Race -- and Guilt

Obama's Speech Was an Act of Political Necessity, Not Courage

Obama Intimidates the Media
Don't play the Rev. Wright audio and video or else!

39 posted on 03/18/2008 4:04:23 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: pissant
I think it took more than a few hours for the words of Lincoln and King to be declared holy writ. I hear how impressive BHO is. I don't see it at all.

I'm not trying to pretend I'm above the fray or anything like that. Heck, I've bumped into EMK outside of Ken's a few times in the the past. Despise him as I do, the man has charisma. I was moved by a speech HRC gave immediately after 9/11.

But, IMO, Obama is hard to take in every way. He radiates a sourness that turns my stomach. It's not racial (I think M. Jordan, in his marketing prime, had the prettiest smile I'd ever seen) it's an innate human aversion like to human waste or vomitus.

I can't take the sound of his voice for more than 20-30 secs at a time. It's bad, it's off. We all see them, people who are almost pleasing to look at, should be cute or pretty, could be, but something is askew and it all falls apart. Maybe Chelsea is an example. That's how his voice is. Yeah, I get it, sonorous.. but no, no, it's awful. All in all he is repulsive.


40 posted on 03/18/2008 4:07:41 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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