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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; bigot; bigotbarack; blacktheology; dncfalseprophets; elections; falseprophets; hatewhitey; hitler; ideologue; jeremiahsmessiah; jeremiahwright; liberalracism; nobama; obama; politicsofoppression; racism; taqiyya
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To: bazbo
Obama: "These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love."

The congregation was whooping and agreeing with Wright's message of hate, anti-semetimm, anti-Americanism, racicist... Barack has shown he is a lightweight in politics. This speech is worse than I imagined!

261 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:00 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: Crawdad

Well all the people who took a 15 minute break to watch the speech are gone.


262 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:01 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: SE Mom
Will Obama discuss his support for Dorothy Tillman the corrupt, reparations-seeking, gun-waving former Chicago Alderman
263 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:16 AM PDT by syriacus (Michelle-O was proud of U of C volunteers in 1997. When did she become "unproud" of America?)
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To: jveritas
(from Drudge's transcript) Not once in my conversations with him have I heard [Wright] talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect.

I'm not buying that one.

264 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:19 AM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? See ToSetTheRecordStraight.com - TSTRS.com for short)
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To: theshadow3581

The final score:

HOPE: 8

CHANGE: 6

FORGIVENESS: 0


265 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:30 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: SE Mom

Hi Mom!

Yes, where is he already? I’ve got some vaccumming to do that I’ve put on hold in order to watch the speech.... (although at this point dusting & vaccumming might actually be more interesting....)


266 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:36 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Obamanation = Abomination)
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To: Grampa Dave

here is Obama’s speech:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

sorry , my mistake. That’s Abraham Lincoln.

Obama’s is:

I believe everything the reverend said which is why I belong to that churh.


267 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:43 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Socialism will destroy a country economically. why dems & Mccain for Socialism?)
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To: ltc8k6

“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”

oh good
obama is so dead


268 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:43 AM PDT by ari-freedom (McCain must pick a conservative VP if he wants conservative support)
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To: tiredoflaundry

They should be voting as their districts or states have voted. This practice works against democracy of one man, one vote.


269 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:47 AM PDT by misterrob (Obama-Does America Need Another Jimmy Carter?)
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To: theshadow3581; Admin Moderator

Mod- will you kindly add this to the headline in parenthesis

(POST # 228 for full text of speech)


270 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:52 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: rock_lobsta

This shows the level of inner conflict of bi-racial kids. Torn between the hatred. He surely loves his mother and grandparents and hears this hatred form his pastor.
What can he really say or do besides plead that we all just get along???


271 posted on 03/18/2008 7:35:57 AM PDT by jackv (DEMOCRATS HATE BUSH MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!!!)
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To: syriacus

“Audio” problems.


272 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:14 AM PDT by syriacus (Michelle-O was proud of U of C volunteers in 1997. When did she become "unproud" of America?)
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To: SE Mom

Twenty minutes late, so far.


273 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:14 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: SE Mom

Well I see they found a “whitey” to adjust the microphones. LOL


274 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:24 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Canedawg

Just the fact that he is forcing himself to give this speech means he is toast! When you have never walked the talk ...


275 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:30 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: SE Mom

It’s unfortunate that we even have a, “Black America.” Shoudn’t this be America! The racist portion of this country now resides in the black church.


276 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:35 AM PDT by JayAr36 (What good has Islam provided for the World?)
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To: tiredoflaundry

So where the heck is Barry? Is this the way it will be with a constantly late “President Obama”?


277 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:43 AM PDT by nutmeg (Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
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To: tobyhill

2nd question: Do you agree that night follows day?

What a complete sap Stephanopoulos is.


278 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:50 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: Muleteam1
No, it's a live thread so I just post to whoever:) That was a JFK speech excerpt that I thought Obama would just copy.
279 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:51 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: SE Mom

I heard he contacted over 50 black pastors asking for their views over the weekend. Obama showing up late is not a good sign at all. He knows this speech is being covered all over the country, so this is his moment to get it right. Or........... the Clinton’s could be holding his head under the water in the back room.


280 posted on 03/18/2008 7:36:54 AM PDT by JFC
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