Posted on 03/18/2008 8:36:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There are moments increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues that the nation is wrestling with.
Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedys 1960 speech on religion, with its enduring vision of the separation between church and state. Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better.
Mr. Obama had to address race and religion, the two most toxic subjects in politics. He was as powerful and frank as Mitt Romney was weak and calculating earlier this year in his attempt to persuade the religious right that his Mormonism is Christian enough for them.
It was not a moment to which Mr. Obama came easily. He hesitated uncomfortably long in dealing with the controversial remarks of his spiritual mentor and former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who denounced the United States as endemically racist, murderous and corrupt.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NY Slimes continues to be a clear & present danger to all Americans and poses a critical National Security threat while hiding behind the flag of "Freedom of the Press".
They are the epitome of the word PRESS-TITUTE.
ObamahatesAmericaGate....OHAG for short.
Pastorgate?
Hategate is very good. I’ll stick with that one. Because he encompasses hate, learned by his pastor and supported by his wife. Barack just doesn’t know who he is. Not ready for President of the United States.
“Pinch”(A loaf) Salzberger et al at it again
Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obamas speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the useful idiots useful.
t sowell
The coward listened to that racist and anti-American venom for 20 years and even donated $22,500 two years ago to the man who preached it and never raised a word against it until now.
Obama only addressed that venom when the power of the Internet left him no choice but to do so. Then he defended the racist at the expense of his own grandmother.
It is a "Profile in Cowardice".
.....ask not what change can do for you but what you can do for change
......when in the course of human events it becomes necessary to change
“Mr. Obama had to address race and religion, the two most toxic subjects in politics. He was as powerful and frank as Mitt Romney was weak and calculating earlier this year in his attempt to persuade the religious right that his Mormonism is Christian enough for them.”
Oh, is this opposite day?
I think Mitt Romney was great, he said he wouldnt abandon the faith of his fathers. I think it cost him the nomination to stick to his mormon guns, but how dreadful fo the NYT to diss him for his eloquent and heartfelt speech that nailed it correctly on the relationship of religion and society.
Meanwhile, I heard Obama threw his grandma under the bus to justify Wright’s hatemongering. Its race-baiting haters like Wright who *make* race and religion “ the two most toxic subjects in politics”. Obama was weak and calculating in his attempt to persuade America that he is a red-white-and-blue American. He cant be so long as hangs with the hyphenated-hating-Americans and rationalizes their anti-American viewpoint.
Why is it so hard for liberals to just come out and admit they’re full of ****?
“He is an out and out liar...now spinning his tale for political expediancy.”
Well, at least we got to the point of realizing he is a lying politician now, 6 months prior to the election.
It would be quite a hangover to elect Saint obama and then wake up Weds morning and realize only then he’s a leftist political POS hack.
Now ... how will this play with the lefties? the Indies? etc.
Maybe it is better to stand back and let the NYT pretend that Obama has put this to bed ... and then re-ask the question after he secures the nomination.
The word ‘shame’ and all of its synonyms were deleted from the New York Times style manual years ago.
As Team Hillary taught us to synthesize: Obama must not have only been taking drugs, in this speech we clearly see him trying to sell them.
HF
Argh... is anyone else just counting down the days until the NYT is out of business? What a bunch of scumbags.
BTW, Hillary is skating free while some conservatives actually do her dirty work for her.
Obama makes the Kennedy family look like a bunch of fools.
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