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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Ping for speech
Has anyone in the press been saying that this is his “Sista Soulja” moment?
They used the term for the last several election cycles. It would be interesting to see if they shun this word since Obama is black.
My fellow Identity-Americans:
As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for their ... well, support.
Your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor’s relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush’s youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy’s for coming out in support of me. There’s a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee he was having an extra marital affair with who was pregnant with his child. And I’m not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I’d like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don’t really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking. It’s time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote in the primaries, remember don’t think, just do.
And do it for me.
Thank You.
Why would that matter? Sister Soulja and Jesse Jackson are both black, and that's where it came from......
ping
Have him explain this:
How is it he took his children to hear such hate - all of their young lives - if he himselve didn’t share the same views? That had to be the message he wanted them to hear because that was his choice.
lol, hilarious stuff!
if only...
Oh here we go again... more of “the dog ate my homework” and “I didn’t inhale”. The difference is that today (as opposed to months ago), people will actually analyse and think about what The Empty Suit is saying and not just fawn over the presentation.
Hope he didn’t let Jeremiah Wright compose the speech for him.
(cheers, applause, amens)
This administration would not have these issues if we did not bomb Japan.
(cheers, applause, amens)
We are spending too much money on his war for oil because his chicken came home to roost.
(cheers, applause, amens)
And this city, (uh, where am I) Philthadelphia, Ohio, will be chocolate in November.
(cheers, applause, amens)
Olbermann's "Special Comment" tonight will likely be an "Obamagasm".
Brilliant. Has Oprah weighed in on this? Is she a member of that church?
no you don’t.
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