[xzins]

I’ve heard so much about the incredible, mind-boggling, speaking ability of B. Hussein Obama, that I finally get to hear it for myself.

What better time to demonstrate what a master of the spoken word he is.

I’m prepared to hear another Churchill, Reagan, Heston....

This had better be outstanding!

[ssaftler]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

Same old “America is racist” clap trap. Sounds like he WAS there for some of Rev. Wrong’s greatest hits!

[stockstrader]

Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama needs about a dozen more flags behind him....lol

[BluH2o]

What is it about punctuality that ‘Rats don't get ... wasn't this speech to start @ 10:15?

[NonValueAdded]

Perhaps he should direct that to his preacher.

[fml]

Another punish the children for the sins of thier fathers routine. How does this play in his white half ?

[Vision]

This guy is so full of crap it's unbelievable.

[Recovering Hermit]

...just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

Uh, no. Nothing even close to those remarks, pal.

[FooBarBaz]

Ok, just so I’m translating properly, when a politician wants to “move forward and discuss the issues” they mean that they want to “ignore that thing that’s killing me in the polls”, yes?

[MtnClimber]

And the Republicans tried to end slavery and ensure civil rights while the Democrats fought them the whole way. And which party does Obama belong to? Marxism is slavery too.

[Anonymous Rex]

He admits being in the church when some of the comments in question were made (so he now is a confessed liar) and he remained a member there in spite of the fact that his preacher is, based on the words used in his own sermon, a black separatist.

Obama is done as a presidential candidate. This speech may as well have been a concession speech.

He will not be able to wash the stench of black separatism and racism off of him no matter how hard he tries.

[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.

[maine-iac7]

bump

[Vision]

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?

[yldstrk]

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.

[headstamp 2]

“Four score and seven years ago.........”

[jmaroneps37]

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.

[newheart]

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.

[AmericanMade1776]

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...

[tomnbeverly]

“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....