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Obama lectures us on race, gender and equality. Obama's speech text
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| 3/18/2008
| Senator Obama
Posted on 03/18/2008 7:30:10 AM PDT by Nutmeg08
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To: Nutmeg08
He doesn’t understand the problem isn’t what particular crazy hatred Wright says. It’s Obama keeps going back for more and more of this hatred. It’s Obama’s total lack of judgment that is the problem. Running for president and continuing to go to the hate speeches and then claiming you know nothing, ala Sargent Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes, sad.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:40:24 AM PDT
by
Nutmeg08
(Keep on keeping on)
To: Nutmeg08
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:40:31 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
To: FooBarBaz
Ok, just so Im translating properly, when a politician wants to move forward and discuss the issues they mean that they want to ignore that thing thats killing me in the polls, yes?You nailed it. Kind of like Bill CLinton's MOVE ON (www.moveon.org).
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:40:49 AM PDT
by
stockstrader
(Hoping for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like hoping to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
To: stockstrader
Hes building anticipation and suspense (and a larger viewing audience). He's a smart politician, then!
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:40:51 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: Nutmeg08
I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.
Oh really. Really?
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:41:25 AM PDT
by
Vision
("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
To: F15Eagle
Cough, cough, cough, bullsh!t cough, cough
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:10 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: massgopguy
Read it, didn't listen to it. I thought it was brilliant. He managed to "dis" Wright, while still espousing many of the "reverend's" views. He, for the first time in my memory, acknowledged that whites have racial concerns too---that it's not all one sided.
The conservative response probably shouldn't be to keep beating the J. Wright horse, but to now attack exactly what he said---that the schools SUCK (and why is that, after what has been, essentially, 60 years of Dem policies?), that we've lost a lot of factory jobs (and why is that, after MI and OH have wrapped themselves in Dem policies that make us utterly uncompetitive?), and that health care is expensive (and why is that, given that we've demonized the drug compnaies and allowed John Edwards and the trial lawyers to sue doctors for everything they have?). This is where the battle can move, to POLICY, where now, instead of just criticizing the Dems, we can show how our policies WORK and theirs don't.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:10 AM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of News)
To: stockstrader
The ironic thing about “moveon.org” was their inability to “moveon” beyond florida 2000.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:47 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Nutmeg08
It’s clever all right. But I don’t know if I can believe it. It sounds good. but I don’tknow if it is just a matter of trying to be all things for all people in an effort to get elected or if it is meant sincerely. And I haven’t seen a plan as to how to get there from here. The great Chameleon.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:47 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Nutmeg08
“Four score and seven years ago.........”
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:48 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Been here before)
To: Anonymous Rex
He admits being in the church when some of the comments in question were made (so he now is a confessed liar)...EXACTLY!!! Prior to this, he 'claimed' he had only heard 'one or two' of those hateful, venomous and racist comments.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:42:52 AM PDT
by
stockstrader
(Hoping for CHANGE by voting for Obama--is like hoping to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
To: Nutmeg08
I read a little of it. My general impression is that it will not help because it strikes me as the joke that has to be explained, which of course is then not a joke.
People have been blitzed with way more politics than they want to deal with. If anyone believes the average voter who does not like Obama for any of a number of reasons will read this and say “Oh ok now I understand! I now support Obama!”, is fooling himself. Such “Saul to Paul” moments don't happen all that often and certainly would happen in this case.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:43:12 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
To: Nutmeg08
I would suggest preparing yourselves for the MSM heralding this as equivalent to Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech. And if truth be told, it is a decent speech.
But it still does not make up for the reprehensible statements of Obama’s pastor and Obama’s failure to take action. Not because he doesn’t go as far as he possibly can in a speech to distance himself from Wright. It does not “fix” this simply because it is not fixable. Wright is certainly entitled to his opinion and to the free expression of it. But it is hateful. It is divisive. It is racist.
Obama should have left the church and Jeremiah Wright long ago. Mentor or not.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:43:48 AM PDT
by
newheart
(The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
To: LS
Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.
To: LS
Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.
To: Nutmeg08
It was stained by this nation?s original sin of slavery (text from Obama’s speech) Original Sin of Slavery..did not begin in America..duh Obama.... It began in Africa... read the Bible..ask Moses...
To: Nutmeg08
“we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity”
From the party that divided the nation over a war which would inevitably need to be fought for our very existence we get lectured on the need for unity...
Now isn’t that the Pot calling the Kettle a Pot....
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:44:05 AM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(Standing by for the: if your not with us your a racist tactic.)
To: stockstrader
Hes building anticipation and suspense (and a larger viewing audience).Actually, a lot of people are at work or need to get there. What appears to be a broad-themed speech may not be sufficient to allay the concerns of many who want to know how in the world he got caught up in this hate cult.
It's also interesting that the man who had reservations about wearing a flag pin on his lapel, now has eight beautiful flags on stage.
To: LS
Well...yeah...THAT is the elephant in the room.....why are people DEMOCRATS!!!!!?????? Their policies NEVER work...like the Socialism he espouses.
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posted on
03/18/2008 7:44:24 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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