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.

[Bender2]

Bla-Bla Bla Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Hey, ya’ll white folk, you don't understand. Its a BLACK THING!!!!!

I yam, what I yam! The Black Popeye with just a shade of white spinach to count.

And CNN, the MSM will eat this crap up!

[sportutegrl]

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. Barack Obama

How did you know that he was going to say this exact word for word paragraph?

[sweetiepiezer]

Wow, this Rev. Wright is great.
Wright for president....................oh pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[toddlintown]

Maybe he’ll start crying. That’ll be a good one.

[Scarpetta]

Interesting that he said “a woman who loves me very much,” versus “a woman whom I love very much.”

What a narcissistic a-hole.

[Tennessee Nana]

Is he “dissing” his own white family ???

[Fox_Mulder77]

“WHY would he allow his children to be agitated to hate?”

Bad parenting. He can’t attend church without his family in tow, so he puts his desires above the welfare of his girls.

[Dinah Lord]

It’s just more blame whitey only in Harvard speak

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Everybody in PA needs to change parties and vote for Obama on 4/22. Keep hope alive!

[TeleStraightShooter]

After six days of being found out Barck Hussien Obama has yet to demand his $22,000 subscription to hate for 2006 be returned.

[rock_lobsta]

I must imagine Rush will weigh in on this speech.

If Hussein were smart, he would have made this speech at 3pm.

[Kozak]

QUE the applause.

[Max7]

Great talk.......talk, talk, talk - and “No, I cannot disown him”, (even though he’s obviously a racist and please don’t ask me again). Racism is only on the WHITE side, don’t you know it? And yes, his so-called ex-pastor really IS a crank. A racist crank.

[tobyhill]

Race matters more to Obama than doing what's right for America.

[longtermmemmory]

Obama is finished.

This is an LA Times “magic negro” speech.

Michigan will cancel their revote too.

This speech only makes things worse.

[Halls]

that is exactly my thought!!!! You can’t disown family(well technically you can, but...) you can disown someone who is not related to you at all!

[Red_Devil 232]

He talks about his white Grandmother but not his Mother!

[P-Marlowe]

He just threw his grandmother under the bus. What a disgusting human being. You don't accuse your own grandmother of being a racist before the entire nation in order to justify the fact that you've been hanging around a Black racist for 20 years.

This man is below contempt.

[over3Owithabrain]

Yeah, and I guess it is better to say racist things in front of an entire congregation of sheep than in a private conversation?

[JFC]

clappers from the balcony .........bused in white folks.