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.

[DietCoke]

And I've noticed a few times this morning that the supportive pundits are calling him bi-racial or multi-ethnic, not black or AA.

[spectre]

She will never be our first lady..

sw

[Red_Devil 232]

Oh My! He had a white mother! And was brought up by a white Grandfather and a white Grandmother ... wonder how many blacks are saying ... WHAT?

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I guess I had to have been there............

[SE Mom]

Uh-oh...LOL!

[McGruff]

Remember we don't want Osama to get out. We want,

[toddlintown]

Et tu, Brute?

You bet your black ass.

[tcrlaf]

“Obama is NOT the descendent of slaves.”

MAJOR CATCH!!!!

He’s the descendent of people who who SOLD SLAVES to the whites!!!!

[Tennessee Nana]

There were complaints about that so he’s been talking about slavery etc ever since...

Hoping to identify and be one of the Boyz in the Hood

:)

[Lee'sGhost]

New bumper sticker idea.

I never owned slaves.
You’ve never been a slave.
Get over it.

[tobyhill]

Obama just admitted to being a liar!

[syriacus]

Yes. He heard Wright make “bad” remarks in church.

[firewalk]

all of a sudden he remember hearing those things...

[mware]

Now admitting that he has heard the comments.

Now what does that make him????

A LIAR

[jdm]

[rock_lobsta]

HIS FORMER PASTOR?????????!!!!! Wow.

He retired a couple of weeks ago. Right before this story hit.

[maggief]

“Obama is NOT the descendent of slaves.”

“MAJOR CATCH!!!!

He’s the descendent of people who who SOLD SLAVES to the whites!!!!”

BUMP!

[Fox_Mulder77]

The strategy behind this speech: throw as many words against the wall as you can and hope a few will stick so the MSM can lick them off and regurgitate them for the next few days.

[Tennessee Nana]

Here...smelling salts..

:)

[mware]

Also admits he was in the church when he heard them.