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Benediction At Obama's Inauguration (Rev. Lowery: "When white will embrace what is right..."
Drudge Report ^ | 1/20/2009 | Staff

Posted on 01/20/2009 11:31:54 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist

Benediction at Obama's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in the back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...


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To: GovernmentShrinker
All it’s supposed to do is rhyme, and it did that.

Unlike the poem?

61 posted on 01/20/2009 12:04:18 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
To misquote:
The Great Obamanation, sitting in the Temple, where he ought not, called and calling himself, a god, who is no god:

Wooden brains, setting up a rock box to worship, as foretold.


Hab 2:19

19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
KJV


Zeph 3:1-4

3 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
KJV

62 posted on 01/20/2009 12:06:40 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Yeah, and don’t forget you’re not allowed to use the phrase “n*gger rigged” anymore. It has now officially been replaced with “the presidential solution”.

:0


63 posted on 01/20/2009 12:07:15 PM PST by 3boysdad
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; All
"When black will not be asked to get in the back??? What the???"

"Wasn't a black man just elected president?"

"The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, who seems to be a race-hustler, was chosen by Obama himself to give his benediction."

"Does he sound like another Rev. Wright?"


64 posted on 01/20/2009 12:08:22 PM PST by musicman (Until I see a REAL BC, it's just "PRESENT" Obama" = Without "ID")
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To: MrB

I thought they already did that in reconstruction, one of the most de-constructive periods of our country. They used to call it “waving the bloody shirt.” Maybe the real motivation should be viewed from that perspective.


65 posted on 01/20/2009 12:09:30 PM PST by ichabod1 (Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

“Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.”

Leader of the Free World—the `Cat in the Hat’—tapped
Schoolhouse Rock and Dr. Seuss to give the Benediction.


66 posted on 01/20/2009 12:11:38 PM PST by tumblindice (FeaR of Free Republic: `No one gets out alive')
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To: HereInTheHeartland
This was all supposed to be about race not mattering anymore. That's what Obama and his supporters were saying a year ago. Many are determined to make it ALL about race...

I can't believe people like Lowery will give up the business of bitterness. That is what they do for living. If we had a truly harmonious and colorblind world such people would have to find a real job.

67 posted on 01/20/2009 12:11:41 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Thanks, I'll pass on this inauguration. I've passed on all the others, even Reagan's. I hate infomercials. Still, I don't recall the networks swooning before like what is happening today. If that is wrong, I stand to be corrected.

I heard a bit about this Lowery clown on Rush. All I can say is, "Great Caesar's Ghost."

68 posted on 01/20/2009 12:12:05 PM PST by stevem
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To: 3boysdad

LOL!

I’m going to enjoy watching the media tell us for the rest of the week, how public racism is OK now.

I’m going to need pain-killers once the media spin gets started.


69 posted on 01/20/2009 12:13:05 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SENTINEL

1 John 4 also has a good test for spotting false prophets.

One of the indicators is that “the World” listens to them because they are speaking from the world’s viewpoint and not God’s.


70 posted on 01/20/2009 12:13:36 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Other than on FR and Rush’s show, is this divisive line getting any play anywhere else?

or is it just us?


71 posted on 01/20/2009 12:14:43 PM PST by Canedawg
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

It’s not racism if THEY do it.


72 posted on 01/20/2009 12:15:13 PM PST by ichabod1 (Change is not a destination, Hope is not a strategy)
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To: SENTINEL

There is a possibility that both were referring to Jesus, who is God, taking on flesh and being fully human and fully God among us...

but I doubt that’s what he was referring to,

because these “liberal theology” types don’t even acknowledge, for the most part, Christ’s divinity.


73 posted on 01/20/2009 12:15:57 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I resent “Rev.” Lowery’s prayer/speech immensely. His benediction went a long way toward dividing people in this country. He, like “Rev.” Wright, just can’t get over it and get on with it.

I am sick and tired of these people being continual victims. My grandmother, who came here from Germany, did not feel that she was a victim. She ironed clothes and cleaned houses for other white people her entire life to help her husband support their five children. She never complained once or felt victimized because others had more than she did. In addition to that, she volunteered at a Lutheran orphanage and made quilts for the elderly. She passed away in her early 50s feeling that America had given her a very good life.


74 posted on 01/20/2009 12:19:14 PM PST by azlinda (Welcome to the continuing Demoncrat pity party.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist


"By golly I took a nap back in 1956 or so and just woke up. Was told to do a Benediction so here it is." Rev. Lowery right before he stepped up to the microphone
75 posted on 01/20/2009 12:19:19 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: TonyM

The bible says to do good to those who hate you. You can make a difference, hate only hurts those who hate


76 posted on 01/20/2009 12:20:38 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

“white will embrace what is right”????? Well, I must agree because all those whites who voted for this imposter definitely did not embrace what is right. When will whites embrace what is right? I’m beginning to think that they NEVER will - just look at the idiocy going on right before our eyes.


77 posted on 01/20/2009 12:23:12 PM PST by Observing Hermit
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To: lady lawyer

Post of the day my friend.


78 posted on 01/20/2009 12:23:41 PM PST by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: MrB
I assure you, mormons teach that "Even as man now is, God once was, even as god now is, man may be". They teach that the "gods" made the earth, and that Christ and Satan were brothers. It is right in their scriptures.

As far as the hippy preacher, I think he was just using that 60's lingo, and calling "GOD" man.

79 posted on 01/20/2009 12:27:43 PM PST by SENTINEL (Bxxxxx Box, Jxxx Box, Cxxxxxxxx Box, (Censored due to loss of 1st Amendment))
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To: gop4lyf
Haven't seen or heard the clip yet but this is just too funny. All I can picture is Al Sharpton saying this while rocking back and forth with the imaginary beat.

I know it's a sad commentary on the state of things but it's also hilarious.

80 posted on 01/20/2009 12:28:50 PM PST by Alcibiades ("First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire"--Roland Deschain)
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