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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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To: SE Mom

New FEC Complaint Details Gov Rendell Complicity in FEC Reporting Frauds By The DNC and Hillary’s Senate Campaign

Renewed allegations of major campaign finance fraud directed by former DNC Chairman, now PA Governor, Ed Rendell to benefit the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign were detailed in a second FEC complaint filed by DNC and Hillary mega donor Peter Paul the first of the year.

Gov. Rendell denied to the FEC any involvement with Paul after Paul originally filed an FEC complaint in July, 2001 against the Clintons and Hillary’s Senate campaign for failure to report Paul’s personal expenditures exceeding $1.2 million, made at the direct and illegal request of Bill and Hillary Clinton to assure Hillary’s election to the Senate.
http://www.peterfpaul.com/2008/02/26/gov-rendell-complicit-in-frauds-that-elected-hillary-to-senate-now-endorses-her-for-president/


1,401 posted on 03/18/2008 11:13:28 AM PDT by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: rock_lobsta

Somethings tells me that the Ashley of Hussein’s speech is the mom of Sanjaya’s Ashley. Just a thought.


1,402 posted on 03/18/2008 11:13:36 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (God Bless George W. Bush)
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To: Miss Didi
Barry asks—you want to play those Reverend Wright tapes every day instead of moving on??? Rush says that he will indeed have a “Reverend Wright” segment every day. The American people have a right to know what Obama’s church is all about.
1,403 posted on 03/18/2008 11:13:50 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: CatoRenasci

...und Sie haben nichts vergessen.


1,404 posted on 03/18/2008 11:14:40 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SE Mom

Bush-Plame Cover-Up vs Hillary Clinton-Peter Paul Cover-Up- Which is Worse?

The revelations of former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan that his former boss and the top members of his administration conspired to cover-up their outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media has resonated with the mainstream media pundits. They used this confession of a White House insider to focus on the moral bankruptcy of the Bush administration and the President himself.

Yet revelations by a Clinton insider that the public record and court transcripts present a compelling case that Hillary and Bill Clinton corrupted the Chief of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity division, Noel Hillman, and the federal judge, A.H. Matz, they appointed in Los Angeles, to protect themselves from prosecution for a massive illegal campaign contribution the Clintons solicited, coordinated and finally coerced from Peter Paul.


1,405 posted on 03/18/2008 11:15:25 AM PDT by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: SE Mom

Media Protects Hillary’s Role in Bill Clinton’s Civil Fraud Case in Los Angeles
http://www.peterfpaul.com/2008/03/05/media-protects-hillarys-role-in-bill-clintons-civil-fraud-case-in-los-angeles/


1,406 posted on 03/18/2008 11:16:43 AM PDT by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: rock_lobsta

We’re just supposed to be grateful he did not start shouting “God d-— America!”

See, he’s really a very reasonable and patriotic guy because he does not go around shouting G-D America all day long!

Be grateful for his open-mindedness and devotion to this nation. /s


1,407 posted on 03/18/2008 11:16:48 AM PDT by Enchante (Eliot Spitzer, can your daughters be "high class" coke-whores for some Democrat friends?)
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To: jrooney

BINGO!


1,408 posted on 03/18/2008 11:17:32 AM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: SE Mom

The Clinton Crime Family
Bill Clinton has surrounded himself with criminals
http://www.clintonmemoriallibrary.com/clintcrimefamily.html


1,409 posted on 03/18/2008 11:18:03 AM PDT by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: Miss Didi

Indeed, Reverend Wright’s speeches matter to this election. Barack could have chosen ANY other church in Chicago. He also could have withheld the significant donations he made to the pastor. Actions matter. Even inactions matter.

I can’t imagine us electing a President who gladly sat for decades in the pews of a pastor spewing hatred for America.


1,410 posted on 03/18/2008 11:19:02 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SE Mom
I've heard enough and seen enough since I got home from work...to tell you I told you so. ...Barry is slick willy x 1000.

Slick ....very slick.

1,411 posted on 03/18/2008 11:23:00 AM PDT by Dog
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To: GVnana

I may have missed it - but no-one has yet commented on his(OB’s) complaint that:”companies got rid of American jobs for (dirty word) PROFIT”.

OB needs to thank the unions for that - which begs the question: “Are companies supposed to run enterprises into bankruptcy and beg the guvmint for bailouts?” Or will OB’s administration just nationalize them?

and “People losing homes - “when the guvmint, under an OB administration will pay off their mortgages and put their houses under guvmint rent control”


1,412 posted on 03/18/2008 11:24:32 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: Yaelle
Sie sollen aber gesagt haben:

...und Sie haben nichts alles vergessen.

1,413 posted on 03/18/2008 11:25:18 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: sodpoodle; Miss Marple; SE Mom

We just witnessed Obama’s Sister Souljah moment.


1,414 posted on 03/18/2008 11:26:29 AM PDT by Dog
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To: SE Mom

After reading so many of these posts, I’m gonna step in here again. Haven’t for a couple weeks. If anybody ever follows my posts, they know where I stand on Bill and Hillary Clinton.

First things first.

The dem party is the party of the Clintons, not the party of Obama. You all want more of the Clinton party? Nice work, congrats, you are quite possibly gonna get it. Wanna talk about useful idiots?

Don’t you people get it? This is the speech that may just aid Obama in bringing down the Clintons, even after Rush and Sean gave Hillary new life when she was near death a couple weeks ago, before Texas and Ohio revived her wicked quest (with their direct and idiotic help).

Destroying the Clintons is the most important thing to do, politically, and we have to be able to do it right NOW! Not tomorrow, not next week, not in the general election! Not in believing that John McDole has any chance against the Clinton machine. Not later. NOW!

Hillary and Bill proved YET again that the right is not prepared to defeat the two most evil politicians this country has ever had to face, bar none—the Clintons.

Obama could be the only tool we have to destroy the Clintons. And despite you people responding on this thread that Obama’s a racist, and Obama’s a muslim, and Obama is worse than the Clintons, and Obama’s this and that, blah, blah, friggin’ blah crap!! Obama gets it, far better than most of you. Especially you who didn’t bother to listen to or read the whole thing.

He has proven today with this speech that he gets it, and that he still may be able to destroy the Clintons at their own game.

God knows, the right obviously can’t!!!

Obama’s just as liberal, but he is not evil, that’s my opinion. And we all KNOW that Bill and Hillary are old-school, wickedly evil.

This is a great speech, but speechifying doesn’t mean a GD thing. The fact is that Obama has tapped into a large chunk of the American psyche, and has a chance to destroy the Clinton party.

And I say go for it Obama. First things first.


1,415 posted on 03/18/2008 11:31:20 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: Dog

Didn’t obama call white man a “cracker” in his book?


1,416 posted on 03/18/2008 11:32:13 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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I am beginning to think this racist Hussien is worse then the Clintoons. What ever happened to the moderate wing of the Rat party? Now we have Shillary, Hussien, Nancy and Dimwit Reid - - -all far left activists.


1,417 posted on 03/18/2008 11:40:34 AM PDT by libscum
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To: Husker8877

Here is the bottom line: One of the big 3 is going to be elected POTUS, that is a fact. Those of us who fear a Hillary presidency less than we fear an Obama presidency are NOT “useful idiots”, we just happen to disagree. If Obama is the nominee, there is a chance he will be POTUS. That scares many of us who still believe the man is hiding his muslim past, or simply believe he is a racist who is angry at white folks, but is slick enough to fool the weak-minded into believing otherwise. The great thing is, that this whole campaign is ripping a great big hole in the fabric of the Dem party that will never completely be repaired.


1,418 posted on 03/18/2008 11:42:03 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: libscum

It’s sort of a Gresham’s Law of politics, bad policy drives out good.


1,419 posted on 03/18/2008 11:42:29 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Husker8877

****Don’t you people get it? This is the speech that may just aid Obama in bringing down the Clintons,....***

Hey people person!!!

If the American voters wanted them (twice) and the Congress of the US could not *bring down* the Clintons....what makes you believe one speech, by one misguided charismatic chameleon could *bring down the Clintons*?

It’s going to take more than *WORDS* to defeat either one of these socialists that the Dems have seen fit to elevate to National prominence.

John McCain is our last chance - I hope he rises to the occasion. Saving Obama’s butt for another day is not the solution. We should overlook McCain’s misspent youth and support him in his days of wine & roses. It’s all we have.


1,420 posted on 03/18/2008 11:49:27 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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