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Obama's Speech Leaves a Few Question Marks(Charles Krauthammer)
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| March 21, 2008
| Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 03/20/2008 11:27:51 PM PDT by kellynla
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Chuckie just put the last nail in Obama's political coffin.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:27:51 PM PDT
by
kellynla
To: kellynla
“Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?”
Because Obama is anti-American proven by his refusal to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem and his refusal to wear the American flag pin on his lapel. That’s why.
If he didn’t approve of what Wright was saying, Obama could have & should have picked up and left the “church” twenty years ago and NEVER RETURNED! But he didn’t...
Obama is toast.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:41:05 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
Absolutely brilliant!!! Well Obama, answer the question.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:42:42 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: kellynla
Here is the text of the letter I sent to the editor of my paper today. BTW, I hope it appears in tomorrows paper. Obama acually will be giving a speech in my hometown (Salem, OR) tomorrow.
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The more I think about Obama and his “historic” “throw Granny from the train speech”, the madder I get.
How dare Barack lecture me about race. How dare he tell me that those of us that were a part of the Reagan Revolution did so because we were racists!!!
Listen Barack, you didn’t give that speech because you WANTED to. You gave that speech because you HAD to. And why was that Barack? I’ll tell you why! It was because you sat under the teachings of a rabid racist for 2 DECADES!!!! You Barack! NOT me!
Don’t lecture me. I’ve spent my years as a white mother teaching my kids, in the words of MLK, to judge someone not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. What have you done? You’ve taken your kids and put them under the racist views of Wright only to raise up another generation to hate. Which one of us is the uniter here Barack?
If you can’t stand up to Rev. Wright, how in the world can we trust you to stand up to Ahmadinejad, Bin Laden or Chavez? The answer is, we can’t! And when I think about it, the only difference between YOUR pastor and these guys, are their addresses. ALL of them hate America and Israel and all of them do it in the name of God!
I have judged the content of your character by those whose company you CHOOSE to keep and I find it to be severely lacking! My prayer is that America will do the same in the privacy of the voting booth.
In other words, SCREW YOU Barack and the RACIST pastor you rode in on!!!
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:43:11 PM PDT
by
Anti-Hillary
(Lest anyone forgot, WE ARE AT WAR!!!!! NOW IS NOT THE TIME IN HISTORY TO TEACH THE PARTY A LESSON!!)
To: kellynla
“That’s why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt, while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.”
Beautiful! Krauthammer is up there with Steyn as a wordsmith!!
In one sentence he explains all the tears of the DU and dailyKos crowd at hearing the speech. Masochism rewarded.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:43:37 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:43:58 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Obama supporters: Drink the Kool-Aid? Yes we can!)
To: kellynla
A year ago on Hannity & Colmes, that little ignorant loud-mouthed bigot Jeremiah Wright was pummelling Sean Hannity on the air about whether Sean had read any of James Cone's work.
Jeremiah Wright credits James Cone as being a founder of "Black Theology" which Wright says forms the very foundational beliefs of Barack Obama's Church:
"Black liberation theology started with Jim Cone in 1968... Do you know liberation theology?... How many books of Cone's have you read? How many books of Cone's have you read?"
~ Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining his Church while berating Sean Hannity, 3/1/07.
Well for 20 YEARS Obama was an active member and close associate of this "Black Theology" Church founded on the ideas of James Cone - founded on THESE ideas:
"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community.Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
~ James Cone, quoted in Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology, by William R. Jones in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, edited by Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
And here's even more goodness and love from the Founder of Obama's "Black Theology" Religion, James Cone:
"For white people, Gods reconciliation in Jesus Christ means that God has made black people a beautiful people; and if they are going to be in relationship with God, they must enter by means of their black brothers, who are a manifestation of Gods presence on earth. The assumption that one can know God without knowing blackness is the basic heresy of the white churches. They want God without blackness, Christ without obedience, love without death. What they fail to realize is that in Amereica, Gods revelation on earth has always been black, red, or some other shocking shade, but never white. Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of mans depravity. God cannot be white even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers. To speak of Satan and his powers becomes not just a way of speaking but a fact of reality. When we can see a people who are controlled by an ideology of whiteness, then we know what reconciliation must mean. The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto)."
~ James Cone, from Black Theology and Black Power, quoted in The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity by Thabiti M. Anyabwile (Orbis), page 150.
THAT is the foundational doctrine of Obama's "Black Theology" Church that he CHOSE to join and that he CHOSE to stay in.
THAT is the belief system that he just couldn't leave to go find a more rational and less racist and hate-based theology.
THAT is the belief system that he CHOSE to stay in and baptize and raise his children under.
Obama comes across to the public as a very quiet, reasonable man - yet he is a very devoted adherent and follower of the most vile, bigotted hate-spewing radical racist GARBAGE of the lowest possible level.
So either he's the most naive and ignorant member of his Church's congregation - or else he just doesn't CARE how vile and hateful his Church's belief system and Pastor is.
To: kellynla
Yep, Obama Hussein’s rhetoric sounds just like radical muslim rhetoric. Definitely hard to tell the difference.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:52:08 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: Anti-Hillary
"Listen Barack, you didnt give that speech because you WANTED to. You gave that speech because you HAD to. And why was that Barack? Ill tell you why! It was because you sat under the teachings of a rabid racist for 2 DECADES!!!! You Barack! NOT me! Dont lecture me. Ive spent my years as a white mother teaching my kids, in the words of MLK, to judge someone not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. What have you done? Youve taken your kids and put them under the racist views of Wright only to raise up another generation to hate. Which one of us is the uniter here Barack?"
Bravo! Absolutely on target. Send that to major newspapers everywhere.
AND to Rush and Sean and Laura etc.
To: kellynla
...the U.S. government invented the HIV virus "as a means of genocide against people of colorI thought it was to get rid of Elton John.
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posted on
03/20/2008 11:55:32 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
To: kellynla
‘Then answer this, senator: If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright’s rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?’
....that sentence above is a killer blow...absolutely devestating...
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:01:13 AM PDT
by
Irishguy
(How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
To: Anti-Hillary
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:05:56 AM PDT
by
Tammy8
(Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
To: Anti-Hillary
If that last line is part of your letter to the editor, I’m guessing it won’t get published. Keep us posted.
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:05:56 AM PDT
by
Rocky
To: kellynla
Charles Krauthammer is imho about the sharpest commentator on the block. Hard or impossible to beat.
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:08:44 AM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(United We Stand- Diversified We Fall)
To: Rudder
"I thought it was to get rid of Elton John. "The government invented AIDS to take our minds off of herpes.
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:12:58 AM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(United We Stand- Diversified We Fall)
To: kellynla
Obama condemns such statements as wrong and divisive, then frames the next question: "There will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough." Ummmm ... Senator Obama ... your "statements of condemnation" took 20 years to be made and, if not for the videos seen around the World on YouTube and on news programs, your "statements of condemnation" may never have been made.
You were not fighting racial hatred with your staments. You could have done that at any time in the past 20 years. You were merely saving your political fortunes.
Taken as a whole, your conduct of the past 20 years up to and including the speech has been a "Profile in Cowardice".
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:15:42 AM PDT
by
Polybius
To: kellynla
Thanks for this post. Krauthammer is great (as well as concise!)
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:15:44 AM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Rocky
I left that sentence out actually. I had it posted first to another thread and someone suggested that I send it to the editor. I did, but I did have the foresight to leave out that last sentence.
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:17:35 AM PDT
by
Anti-Hillary
(Lest anyone forgot, WE ARE AT WAR!!!!! NOW IS NOT THE TIME IN HISTORY TO TEACH THE PARTY A LESSON!!)
To: kellynla
Chuck Hunbanger states the obvious better than anyone.
Once found out as an enabler of racism the frost has gone off the Obama pumpkin.
Recalcitrant sad,silly and sick liberal white guilt along with the historical violence-prone threat of paranoid African-American umbrage are the only two things that can still give Barrack the nomination.Political correctness will then give him the presidency.
Look for Barry X to exploit all three to the max.
Instead of spending all of her time blabbing racist and ethnic bigotry,his grandmother could have taught him some traditional values.
To: The_Macallan
Black liberation theology It's absolutely appalling that Obama can stand by and continue to associate with this man. It demonstrates a profound lack of judgement. Who would he appoint to be his advisors and cabinet members? Rev. Wright as Sec. of State? Al Sharpton as Sec. of HHS? Louis Farakkhan as Sec. of Defense? What evidence do we have that his administration would not include people like this?
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posted on
03/21/2008 12:35:18 AM PDT
by
giotto
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