Another home run by Ann.
No one can cut through to the heart of an issue as she can.
Two observations:
1 - Obama just set race relations back at least 20 years.
2 - As Ann said, whites have had enough of the Great Society, War on Poverty and racial favoritism and discrimination.
We are waiting to hear that it is over - that blacks agree Dr. MLK's dream has come true: that henceforth blacks (and whites) will be judged on their character, not by the color of their skin.
But Obama says its not over.
He said Phase II is just getting started.
He told us that whites need to pay more attention to what blacks want - that we need to start giving more, not less.
If what we see on the videos and what Obama says about the black attitude is true it means that 40 years of government pandering to blacks and trillions of dollars spent on black oriented programs have made matters worse instead of better.
It means there is no peaceable way to resolve the race issue because whites are bumping up against the absolute limit of what they can take.
If we are going to have to forever take care of blacks like helpless little children the least the government can do is stop pretending that they are competent equals. Its time to eliminate affirmative action and racist programs that favor blacks and end the hypocrisy before it totally detroys the country.
21? 22? 23? Let's be explicit instead of demagogic! Your other points are well taken, but keep in mind that he was forced into this speech by the Klinton Propaganda machine and its allies in the media. His church and its Holy man have been known for as long as he's been going there, 20 years? Why now,that Hitlery is about to lose the nomination? Why now? Why not 6 monthes ago, one year? Whatever he might have said, he would have been attacked!
I am no Obamamaniac, but I see that the race obsession is killing this country! Obama tried to steer from it ran a race (pun unintentional) free of racialism, and was forced into it, by the Klintoons, who so easily manipulated the media and the public opinion again including the opinions here.
Read james Taranto's columns on Opinion Journal of today and yesterday, that explain (1) Why Obama put up with this preacher's rhetoric for 20 years, and (2) Where else is this rhetoric found -- according to black interviewees.
What Obama said is unimportant, as far as I am concerned. What's important and at issue here is the easy manipulation of public opinions by the Klintons who are clearly behind it. And that is very depressing.