Posted on 03/18/2008 11:20:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama in a speech Tuesday addressed the controversy surrounding his former minister, using it as an opportunity to challenge Americans to take a closer look at race relations.
Speaking to supporters at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, the Democratic presidential candidate said he rejected racially charged comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but he tried to explain the root of those remarks.
Wright formerly preached at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the senator from Illinois worships.
Some of Wright's old sermons came under fire after an ABC News report last week, becoming a YouTube phenomenon.
In one, Wright said America had brought the September 11 attacks upon itself. In another, he said Sen. Hillary Clinton had an advantage over Obama because she is white.
Obama on Tuesday said his belief that all people want to move in the same direction comes from his "unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. But it also comes from my own American story."
The senator said that race only became a divisive issue in the campaign during recent weeks.
Obama admitted he had sat in church and heard his former minister make controversial remarks.
"Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely -- just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Americans urge obama to abandon his campaign since he and his wife have been outed as a racist black separatists.
It bothered me that Obama made little reference to blacks’ responsibility to clean up “black culture” to help future generations.
He did, however, list government programs to help.
I believe the next step in erasing the past for decendants of slaves is to take responsibility for their culture and what their children see and do.
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If a priest or minister ever uttered such vicious conspiracy laced hatred in my church, I’d get up and leave, and never return.
Barry Obama, or whatever the hell his name is, is dead wrong.
Sorry, Obama, I'm too busy whipping up a batch of AIDS v2.0 to give to blacks. < /sarcasm, which the MAN uses to keep Obama down>
DSS needs to pick up their children... exposing those little darlings to Jeremiah Wright's hate filled speeches is abuse.
First he denies that he was sitting in the pew when these type comments were made. Then he is caught quoting from the very same sermons in his book. Now he admits he did sit in the pew and listen to these hate-speeches.
Obama is now exposed as just another lying politician who will say anything at all to get elected.
His “pastor” can only make a buck by making his congregation feel like victims of “whitey” and that they have no power except his big mouth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOBDU&feature=related
Some ministers call BHO a Mack Daddy...check this out
The short-term question is: will this speech help him with nervous super-delegates? My guess is the answer is “yes”.
You know what? Had it not been for slavery, the blacks in this country would be living among squalor, starvation and a rampant AIDS epidemic in about every country in Africa. They should be greatful that their distant ancestors went through, so that they can have the life they have now. Bizarre aint it?
We’ve all known about his church and pastor for months, and the MSM is finally catching up...? How well will this story play for Hillary, I wonder. Will we be facing Hillary v. McCain now, with nothing to bring out on Hillary that is not already known?
I hope so. Let’s start with his racist grandmother and
Jesse Jackson,who said the same thing about black men in the
street.
I’m still waiting to hear how 40+ years of preferential treatment of blacks by whites makes blacks mad.
Where in the world are blacks more free than in the US?
You rule, Mrs. D! :)
“First he denies that he was sitting in the pew when these type comments were made....”
And now he says he was there....Which way is it Obama?
He called the notion of self-help a CONSERVATIVE notion.....he addressed issues and said things that I have NEVER seen any other politician discuss or touch. He diagnosed the current state of race-relations perfectly.
His solutions however ever remain Marxist in nature.
His shot and Reagan was below the belt and uncalled for. He pretty much said that his ENTIRE coalition was based on reverse discrimination.
Kind of ridiculous - unless you count taking down of the USSR as discrimination.
So, how does his acceptance of his pastor’s hate-America ranting translate into a “racial divide” that “we” need to “heal”. Everyone now knows exactly what has been going on in that church, and most are quite appropriately appalled.
“Obama and Michelle need to just fade into the sunset.”
After he gets the nomination. After.
Pimp Daddy more like it cause they know that Barry O is gonna keep them Reparations coming... courtesy of Joe Taxpayer...
I think I’m gonna puke.
No $#i+ Sherlock!
Perhaps Obama should give his speech in all the radical black racist, Afro-Centric poverty pimping churches in America and in the prisons filled with black men.....
Ask THEM to put aside black racism, black crime, black dependence of the public dole and stop destroying the black community by not addressing the >70% unwed births and absence of fathers in the black homes...
Blacks must STOP looking toward others to solve THEIR problems....
The Democrats will buy it and send him on to the nomination, and then his total Mondale-esque destruction in the general election.
Physician, heal thyself!
The best way I can think of to heal America’s racial divide is to stop sending $22,000 donations to racist, anti-American hatemongers so they can continue to advance the cycle of racism to yet another generation.
That, and for the Democrat Party to apologize for its leading role in the perpetuation of slavery and its implementation/enforcement of segregation. It would be even better if the Democrats would step up to the plate and pay reparations (from its own coffers) as well.
the DU thinks that after that speech he’s the second coming of MLK, JFK, all them K’s..they simply don’t understand how anyone can NOT vote for him now, and by the way, anyone that doesn’t is a racist, but we’re moving beyond that now, aren’t we, thanks to Obama The Healer..
Sure hope that we give Michele MORE reasons to go back to not being proud of her ‘mean’ country.
my church and pastor are so boring compared to Obama's *ridin dirty* friend and his *mac daddy* foe
Why? He’s not.
Omamma let’s start with your pastor first.
He might want to try and start by talking to his Pastor. The Good Reverend ain’t doing very much to heal the racial divide, or does Obama believe that is only for the whites to care of.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain should demand equal free time.
Uncle Jeremiah in the Lincoln bedroom? Won’t be called the White House no more!
Disclose the Puppeteer.
Hey Obama! Read Luke 4:6-8! Especially pay close attention to Verse 8.
I did not notice in your spin, er, speech today that you spoke those words to the Puppeteer who carried you up on the mountaintop and offered you the world if only you would pledge allegiance to him.
Rejected the Devil and all his empty promises lately? Didn’t think so.
Spot on, Sig!
Blacks in this country are the luckiest on Earth.
They have better schools, healthcare, jobs, income, and
most of all....Freedom! I’m totally sick of their bitchin.
The other day somebody posted a link to a youtube of Pastor Manning (a black preacher) who was just as racist as Wright, but his anger was aimed at Obama, as well as whites (I think he must have been a Hillary supporter, the church was in Harlem and he talked about Bill Clinton.)
Wonder if Obama would “explain away” Manning’s hate speech since he’s willing to overlook Wright’s? And if we can excuse black hate speech toward white people, then can we excuse white hate speech toward blacks?
After all who knows what experiences shaped the views of the KKK members or the David Dukes of this world? Maybe there’s something in their history that explains their hateful speech. (end/sarcasm) But that’s where Obama went...Wright talks like this because...blah, blah, blah.
God damn Americans or God damn AmeriKKKans?
My heart goes out to Obama’s two beautiful little girls. They are being brainwashed week after week with vile hatred towards their own country. Those two sweeties will spend a long time on psychiatrist’s couches when they grow up.
His sorry excuse for a pastor race baits and flames whites and Jews and he asks the people to help heal the racial divide! Its you and your ilk who are causing it. Its up to you to heal it, Osama.
If my pastor ever said “G-D the USA” during a sermon I would challenge him to a duel.
Hey Abomi nation,
The only racial divide is the one created by the morons you pander to. The divide will cease to exist when your joker cons end the BS and the likes of you stop pandering to it.
Sincerly,
repulsed
Sorry...I don’t have a racial divide. I give everyone the same courtesy, the same benefit of the doubt, the same level playing field.
So...don’t ask me to support tilting the playing field in favor of those who have been convinced by charlatans like Obama that their lot in life is due to influences beyond their control. I don’t buy it.
And, neither should anyone else.
So in other words, “blacks” have the same things in this country that “whites” have.
What a RACIST nation we are! /s
“First he denies that he was sitting in the pew when these type comments were made....”
And now he says he was there....Which way is it Obama?
...he was there before he wasn’t there. Or he wasn’t before he was. Actually, he was there singing “Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear”, then he wasn’t there and sang “Fuzzy Wuzzy Had No Hair”. So the real question is...WAS FUZZY WUZZY FUZZY OR WASN’T HE?
There! Does that answer your question?
“Now he admits he did sit in the pew and listen to these hate-speeches”
He also took tapes of Wright’s speeches away with him to Harvard, so he could listen to them over and over again for inspiration!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/30/america/30obama.php?page=2
“Will most democrats buy this nonsense?”
I’m afraid so. I don’t think that the democrats know how to be anything but traitors anymore.
My heart goes out to Obama’s two beautiful little girls. They are being brainwashed week after week with vile hatred towards their own country. Those two sweeties will spend a long time on psychiatrist’s couches when they grow up.
...no they won’t. They’ll join the same support group that Chelsea starts. Kinda like the Betty Ford Clinic.
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