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The Most Controversial Quotes from Obama’s Hampton University Speech
National Review ^
| October 2, 2012 7:54 P.M
| By Eliana Johnson
Posted on 10/02/2012 6:39:51 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Based on the transcript posted by the Chicago Sun Times, here are the 5 quotes from then Senator Obama’s 2007 speech at Hampton University that are most likely to raise eyebrows:
- Hurricane Katrina “was a powerful metaphor for what’s gone [in America] on for generations.”
- “It was also there — at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago — that I met Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who took me on another journey and introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had.”
- On his run for the Illinois State Senate: “And the second thing people would ask me gets back to the question about why we can’t seem to take the bullet out in this country and do the works and the deeds and unite this country.”
- “[The poor] may need help with basic skills — how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes, and act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there. That’s why I have called for $50 million to begin innovative new job training and workforce development programs.”
- “We need to give our young people some real choices out there so they move away from gangs and violence and connect them with growing job sectors. That is why I am also going to create a 5-E Youth Service Corps. The ‘E’s’ stand for energy efficiency, environmental education and employment. This program would directly engage disconnected and disadvantaged young people in energy efficiency and environmental service opportunities to strengthen their communities while also providing them with practical skills and experience in important and growing career field.”
It appears that President Obama went off script when he delivered the speech, but if he went on to deliver these remarks as written, I imagine they will cause some controversy.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; 2012; bhofascism; caughtontape; democrats; hampton; hamptonu; obama; obamaquotes; obamatruthfile; wright
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
We need a good commercial that shows this video and his shuddering at Nc. Then contrast how he speaks to the white base. I swear I saw him in a checker shirt and Michelle in gingham going to WI. Wow. Who are they?
To: rawhide
I do not think there is much in the way of controversy here at all.
I guess I'll keep repeating the obvious:
It's quite simple really....this video release isn't about revealing anything to conservatives/republicans. (duh)
This video may well provide all the right talk shows with all the right quotes and snippets we need to sway the undecideds.
Pile on the treasure trove of quotes and snippets to the ones we currently have and there will be a long endless loop of them played until election day that just might help us sway the wishy-washy undecideds.
That is the point of releasing this video.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:10:37 PM PDT
by
brent13a
To: All
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:11:47 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Behind Liberal Lines
There is nothing in those lines that will get obama-supporters upset. Independents probably won’t find them that unusual either.
This is no story with teeth there.
In sum, those who’d have problems with his words in this instance are already not supporting him.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:13:41 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
To: rawhide
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:17:04 PM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The 0bama at Hampton sounds different from 0bama in The Hamptons.
To: MAD-AS-HELL
Teflon(R)? He’s been almost consistently below 50% in the polls. Nothing Teflon(R) bout that.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:20:06 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(I am sick of Obama's and Hillary's apologies to muslims, especially after 11 September 2012.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
“You also have Obama saying, in essence, that poor people are lazy and rude:
[The poor] may need help with basic skills how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes, and act appropriately in an office.”
Yeah; we could work with that quote. The “undecideds” we are trying to reach; might not like to be reminded why their tax money has go to show someone how to get to work on time.
When they are getting up at 5:00 to go to work to pay taxes to pay for that.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:21:34 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
To: SeekAndFind
Most undecided voters have never seen the G-d AmeriKKKa video
clips and have forgotten who Wright is. That’s why they’re undecided.
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10/02/2012 7:21:57 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: brent13a
“Of course what he introduced Obama too is different than 90% of everything else that in and of itself makes it controversial.”
We’re running a freaking Mormon who believes that some guy found gold plates, which probably weighed something like 600 pounds if they existed, with the Book of Mormon on it written in Reformed Egyptian which he translated out of his hat.
I don’t think the “different Jesus” angle is going to work out here.
To: aposiopetic
The 0bama at Hampton sounds different from 0bama in The Hamptons.That is excellent. Seriously.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:25:23 PM PDT
by
exit82
(Pass the word: Obama is a FAILURE!! Democrats are the enemies of freedom!)
To: brent13a
How is it odd logic? I don't understand or approve many other Christian denominations either, so if they want to believe something strange, it's between them and God.
I don't like Wright or Obama. But, to make such quotes controversial is a bit of stretch.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:29:41 PM PDT
by
paudio
(Post-racial society: When we can legitimately hire and fire a Black man without feeling guilty.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Lets hear the quotes that rush picks out for the show tomorrow.
The NRO is a pretty wimpy rag - I wouldn’t be surprised if they cherry picked to find the least offending quotes Obama said.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:31:54 PM PDT
by
o2bfree
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Big yawn. Saw most of this in 2008.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Is this supposed to hurt or help obama?
I must be missing something, because if my take on libs is close to accurate, those quotes should do more to add to his support, not take support away.
Nice of Fox to rerun campaign material for obama like that. I bet they donate a lot of cash to his campaign, too. No wonder. It's easier to be a "journalist" when your stories are already written for you.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Now that ain't workin',
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:33:37 PM PDT
by
GBA
(The line is drawn, two choices left: We must pull back from the line or be forced to cross it.)
To: Red_Devil 232
He makes me want to vomit. The SOB born in Kenya, grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, but has a black southern accent when he speaks to blacks. The pandering fake, fraud POS.
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10/02/2012 7:38:14 PM PDT
by
NKP_Vet
To: Texas4ever
That would be brilliant because many urban blacks would see it as a dis - which it is!
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:40:21 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
This isn't for the hard core on either side. This exposes the “great uniter” as just another race baiting huckster like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
This is not going to sit well with the “moderates” who voted for a “post racial” President in 2008. This video shows he is not “The One” they were promised.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:41:20 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
To: Red_Devil 232
Juan Williams on Hannity is expressing just the exact reaction I expect that the other 97% will cheer! No problem with Zero pandering in using the Black accent and cadence! Yeah for Zero!
Agree there are those who enjoy the “shuck and jive” , but also think there
Are one who will see the side that distorts things then, and is still doing it
Now.
Newt called him out on his outright lie on New Orleans not getting their share.
To: montag813; GBA; RaisingCain; paudio; xzins
This isn't for the hard core on either side.
This exposes the great uniter as just another race baiting huckster like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. We all knew this in 2008. The middle, including about 15% of normally GOP voters, did not.
This video is not going to sit well with the independents who voted for a post racial President in 2008. This video shows he is not The One they were promised.
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posted on
10/02/2012 7:44:53 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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