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Posted on 10/02/2012 6:20:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.
“The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims “part of the American family.”
The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.
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Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a “transcript” of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.
Obama begins his address with “a special shout out” to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama’s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color” became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”
By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem. Wright told The New York Times earlier that year that he would no longer be speaking on the campaign’s behalf because his rhetoric was considered too militant. And yet later in the Hampton speech Obama explicitly defends Wright from unnamed critics, a group he describes as “they”: “They had stories about Trinity United Church of Christ, because we talked about black people in church: ‘Oh, that might be a separatist church,’” Obama said mockingly.
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Juan Williams is an idiot, EVERYTHING to that moron is about race..what makes Juan think that if Obama were white I would all of a sudden love his Communist policies? Yeah it must be that darn black skin
LOL Yeah
None of this will matter to the 47%! They will replay it over and over and cheer it every time they see or hear it!
Yep, I think it is a mistake to publicize this. Too many people agree with what he was saying.
“Feds don’t care about New Orleans”??? How long did it take for 0bama to address the BP oil disaster, 60 days?
I think most high school kids can do a better “street “nig***” accent. Bomma needs to take some more lessons. I don't think he met his first real streets blacks until he was out of college in Chicago. You can tell he wasn't raised in "black." He juss a phoney wyatt boi tryin a be boolack.
RE: Yes to Both questions!
Well, if this video serves to energize Obama’s black and liberal base... what the heck did Hannity show it for?
Unless of course it serves to energize those who oppose him even more.
“Suburbs” is racist for whitey. Obama = RACIST
Well obviously not the kind of 'caring' Obama has for 'solar projects'. No Obama is about bringing on retribution to the whites that he despises. Who has benefited from Obama's wealth transfer... I am beginning to think our wealth got spent funding that Arab spring.
” We don’t need Halliburton doing it. We can have the people who were displaced doing that work. Our God is big enough to do that.”
Well, there you have it. You know only Whites work at Halliburton!
obumpa
I tend to agree with you. These tapes reveal the true Obama to the country. Wer can only hope. If America votes this race-baiting buffoon in after all this information, we will deserve the chaos that will ensue
what did Obama mean by “He counsels me” when referring to
Rev. Wright? Did he mean that a Black Liberation Theologist is his counselor?
You missed the whole point..Its not for YOU or us or the Obama voters!
It’s for the 5% undecideds..cause NOW that is all that counts!
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