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LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech
Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

Posted on 03/18/2008 6:12:13 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: jetson

My guess if Obama saved himself today with those who would already be inclined to support him over Hillary. But Obama is forever stained now for the general election - the average white person rightfully will no longer be comfortable with this guy. Indie voters will flock to McCain enmasse.


1,181 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:04 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: warsaw44
I was going to post the exact opposite. I'd never listened to one of his speeches in full but if this is what all the young moonbats call ‘ inspiring ‘ I just don't see it.

I've listened/watched many of Obama's campaign speeches, which are "flowery", but lack any kind of substance whatsoever. What you heard today is (IMO) one of his better and more clever speeches. (Don't take my words the wrong way, I don't agree with him at all regarding the issues.)

This speech is flat out boring and does not in the least explain Obama’s 20 year association with Reverend Wright.

Agreed. I came away from this speech thinking that he really didn't "disassociate himself" at all from the Rev. Wright. 20 years is a long time to be a member of this church with the same pastor (Wright). I can't believe Obama and/or his wife Michelle wasn't in the pews at least once during one of Rev. Wright's more offensives rants. And as Fox News has noted: Rev. Wright's "sermons" (rants) on DVD have been readily available for sale in the church gift shop for years.

1,182 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:10 AM PDT by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: sarasota

Yes! Black.


1,183 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:18 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: toddlintown

He was parsing his words, giving a lawyerly evasion when he said what he didn’t hear while in the church pew. He never said he heard nothing wrong. What he said was, the passages of speech that were being played in the press were all or mostly all ones he had not been present to hear. That leaves open room for the possibility he WAS there when wrong things were said, but maybe not AS WRONG as what the public recently has seen, and maybe not those specific passages. A Clintonian trick...


1,184 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:22 AM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult and the Clinton Machine!!)
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To: Eva

That should get its own thread.


1,185 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:27 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: 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”

Now I’m craving peanut butter and dill pickle. :)


1,186 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:28 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Miss Didi
Excellent post. It would have been better if he had gone on Oprah’s couch and cried.

Exactly! LOL

1,187 posted on 03/18/2008 8:53:41 AM PDT by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: cajungirl

I actually thought there were many good parts to this speech. Some of what he said is a far cry from anything we’d ever heard from Jackson and Sharpton.


1,188 posted on 03/18/2008 8:54:12 AM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: toddlintown
Now he says he heard Wright talking wrong while at his church. Yesterday, and for the last week, he said he never heard any of this.

He said Rezko only gave him a little cash. After 3 more times, it’s now up to $225,000.

How many times can you change a story and not be questioned?

How many times you can get away with it depends on what your party affiliation is.

1,189 posted on 03/18/2008 8:54:20 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: SE Mom

Bill to himself “Damn he’s good!” and has informed Hillary that she hasn’t got a chance to beat Obama.


1,190 posted on 03/18/2008 8:54:38 AM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: Loud Mime

“Whites, it’s your fault my pastor is an anti-American racist!”

The AUDACITY OF WILLFUL IGNORANCE...


1,191 posted on 03/18/2008 8:54:51 AM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: tcrlaf
African Muslems traveled the interior buying captured slaves from the tribes, and transported them to the coast to be sold for slavery overseas...

They transported as many to what is now Saudi Arabia. Saudi doesn't have a "race problem" like we do because the muslims preferred their slaves castrated.

Something to mention in passing to the Black Muslims here...

1,192 posted on 03/18/2008 8:55:19 AM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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To: IndyTiger

The Democrats are in a catch 22.


1,193 posted on 03/18/2008 8:55:21 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: rock_lobsta

Interesting headlines- thanks for posting


1,194 posted on 03/18/2008 8:55:23 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: cajungirl

You miss the point - we don’t elect politicians who consider virulent racists and America-haters their mentors and close spiritual advisors. Obama is free to love Jeremiah all he wants, but he is not free from it costing him the election. BTW, he loves Wright so much he was calling him a crazy uncle to save his own sorry political hide.


1,195 posted on 03/18/2008 8:55:39 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: jennyjenny

I had parents. Obama didsn’t. That is the difference. His mom was a flake, his dad was gone. He was looking for a dad and found one.


1,196 posted on 03/18/2008 8:56:00 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: Miss Didi
Amazing...Obama claims his Grandmother was a racist but Rev. Wright is not?
1,197 posted on 03/18/2008 8:56:23 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: cajungirl
I grew up in New England, and have parents quite the same as yours. They, till this day, are extremely prejudiced, but will not use that word to describe themselves. They were appalled and in disbelief that I would ever consider voting for a black person for president. It made my skin crawl. I will not vote for the senator because of political views—it has nothing to do with the color of his skin.
1,198 posted on 03/18/2008 8:56:34 AM PDT by biss5577
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To: JPJones

**Irish catholics against British Protestants....?**

And vice versa!

How about just a plain old bias against the Catholic Church?


1,199 posted on 03/18/2008 8:56:38 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: tcrlaf
And Obama himself is descended from SLAVE DEALERS.

He is also descended from the Luo tribe, which is currently involved in "ethnic cleansing" in Kenya. (Obama's father was a Luo.)

Have you heard him or Rev. Wright say a word about THAT genocide? I don't condone slavery, but this strikes me as a lot worse.

1,200 posted on 03/18/2008 8:56:49 AM PDT by freespirited (A government big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.- Barry Goldwater)
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