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.

[tiredoflaundry]

hey, that is my line!

[toddlintown]

“I-95 is shut down at a few exits because of a steel beam-my words.Traffic is a mess.”

Fracking honkey civil engineers. It’s a conspiracy. Obama’s trying to build bridges..../s

[tobyhill]

Both CNN guest just said all whites are racist because whites set the terms for discussion. They also said that blacks don’t worship with whites. My very large church has a large congregation of African-Americans.

[nuconvert]

Even people on CNN are commenting about the flags
lol

[rhombus]

The danger Obama and his spinners have with continuing to perpetuate the “Blacks use a different vocabulary than others” is that it implies the “others” are too stupid to understand Blacks. That could backfire.

I'd say it could backfire. It's a racist statement in and of itself.

[Always Right]

You can bet this was a planned delay to get maximum noon time news coverage.

No, I bet he lost a good chunk of the audience. He needed a warm up band to fill in.

[Miss Didi]

I actually think it is a decent speech and will help. The media will love it. Obama will escape damaged, but not dead.

Obama could read the phone book and the Drive-Bys would do cartwheels.

[syriacus]

CNN: How will this speech play? Speech incredibly important.

Candy: He has to breach the racial divide [sic]

Huge task. Herculean.

[sweetiepiezer]

Sorry, that didn’t come up.

http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id= href=”mailto:33004@wbbm.dayport.com”>33004@wbbm.dayport.com

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Is that it, pretty much?

Oh ease up, that's not the take I got from his comment.

[jdm]

"Testing 1, 2, 3. Testing 1, 2, 3.
Mic check. Mic check. How's that? How ya like me now?"

[roses of sharon]

Katrina did show that LIBERAL black leaders do not know how to take care of their people, letting them live in squalor FOR DECADES, FGS!

[toddlintown]

“They also said that blacks don’t worship with whites.” Must be talking about Atlanta, CNN HQ.

[jbarkley]

Yes, I’m wondering if the “preacher” voice is going to come out today.

[Dinah Lord]

Get off da stage white man!

[SE Mom]

The whole concept of blacks using a different vocabulary than whites is ...really disconcerting.

Here we go...the speech begins now..

[JFC]

lol......

[GeorgiaDawg32]

or to go to speech “B” or “C”, dependent upon reaction to his SUPPOSED speech “A” which hasn’t been given yet..

[jdm]

To be hear TONIGHT? This guy hasn’t a clue.

[TornadoAlley3]