LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech

Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

[SE Mom]

Barack Obama is preparing to deliver a major address Tuesday on race, politics and unifying the country after being hounded by questions about his relationship to a pastor whose sermons have been laced with anti-American invective.

In a speech whose religious significance could compare to one given in December by former GOP presidential hopeful and Mormon Mitt Romney, Obama may be forced to explain the philosophy of the 8,000-strong Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the Democratic presidential candidate has been a congregant for 20 years.

In announcing the morning address, to be delivered in Philadelphia, Obama would not say specifically what he will discuss, but suggested he wants to cool down the atmosphere after incendiary remarks by his pastor, retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., blanketed the airwaves over the past week.

[RightField]

thread=threat

sigh ...........

[Eroteme]

speaking of which where is O’mama

My guess is that campaign handlers nixed the Mrs. McGreevy/Mrs. Spitzer visual. Plus, she refused the duct tape over her mouth.

[cajungirl]

the supers will desert Hillary unless there is more in her sink that she hasn’t thrown at him.

I think the dems will nom him because they are afraid not to. They are more afraid of riots than of Hillary.

Hillary and Obama are both marxists,,I cannot decide who would more successfully destroy our country.

[tobyhill]

We should all congratulate Obama on picking up the majority of black voters, unfortunately he lost any white voter he may have bamboozled in the past.

[JFC]

DU has thought their team was melting, so they needed a little pick me up, and if they are listening to CNN, they are getting fed my their media that Obama is KING.

[AGreatPer]

"He painted himself as an racial extremist who is beholden to perceived injustices rather than a uniter."

Exactly. But no talking head saw that.

I'm glad he did this speech now. It will be picked apart and thrown back at him.

The part that got to me was, "I can not disown him (Wright)". He just showed his racism.

[jennyjenny]

But they are your parents. Did you choose to associate with non family members who were racist? For 20 years?

[Guenevere]

duh!.ya think..lol

[kcat]

Mike, I think it is so sad that he “painted himself as a racial extremist...”. Honestly I had thought that if he did get elected well at least young black kids without much hope might at least be inspired and see a realization that they could do anything. This is so sad.

[Miss Didi]

Couldn’t believe the way he threw his white grandmother, the woman who really raised him as a child, under the bus.

How on earth can you talk that way about your grandmother? Shame on you, Obama!

[PapaBear3625]

I think Ashley was only 9 years old, and she wanted to help her mother by eating mustard and relish sandwiches for a year...because her mother was poor..

Which is profoundly stupid, because mustard and relish are more expensive and less nutritious than rice or pasta

[toddlintown]

“How did you know that he was going to say this exact word for word paragraph?”

Speeches are always passed out early to reporters. Deadlines and all.

[MissMagnolia]

Obama & Hillary, the ‘G-D America’ candidates (after Hillary’s latest Iraq speech, I include her in this category) make it much easier to vote for the “God Bless America’ candidate.

[Red in Blue PA]

I thought Obama was the inevitable cadidate.....until this.

[rock_lobsta]

Maybe Rush can explain this Ashley mystery.

I can do it!!!

Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing.

Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No!

Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

[JPJones]

I think he’s about to justify white churches condemning Islam. Oh, and I guess now Rabbis can preach vile hatred of Germans. Surely I’ve forgotten some. Where does it stop?

Irish catholics against British Protestants....?

[mathluv]

I understand what you are saying - you are describing my mother.

That does not make it right, in this day and age of terrorism. I think he has lost the support of most dims - just not the most liberal ones.

[maggief]

The Ashley ending was an appeal to the white Edwards supporters.

Better said ...

[roses of sharon]

LOL, good grief.

Do your parents have a pulpit preaching racist, anti-American, pro communism, and agitating hate and violence to yours and others children everyday??? For the last 30 years?

Are your parents running for the Presidency of the United States?

Pass the smelling salts, your rationalization of a racist and anti-American, like Hussein, his pastor and church, is not credible.

[tomnbeverly]

I been saying it for months and months makes him the most dangerous man in the nation... my tagline is next... get prepared for the long fight.... in the General if you disagree with Obama policy its not because the policy is just bad for America no, no, no, its because you are a racist, hateful, intolerant, homophobe, white radical chirstian conservative republican.