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The Most Controversial Quotes from Obama’s Hampton University Speech
National Review ^ | October 2, 2012 7:54 P.M | By Eliana Johnson

Posted on 10/02/2012 6:39:51 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Based on the transcript posted by the Chicago Sun Times, here are the 5 quotes from then Senator Obama’s 2007 speech at Hampton University that are most likely to raise eyebrows:

  1. Hurricane Katrina “was a powerful metaphor for what’s gone [in America] on for generations.”
  2. “It was also there — at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago — that I met Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who took me on another journey and introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had.”
  3. On his run for the Illinois State Senate: “And the second thing people would ask me gets back to the question about why we can’t seem to take the bullet out in this country and do the works and the deeds and unite this country.”
  4. “[The poor] may need help with basic skills — how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes, and act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there. That’s why I have called for $50 million to begin innovative new job training and workforce development programs.”
  5. “We need to give our young people some real choices out there so they move away from gangs and violence and connect them with growing job sectors. That is why I am also going to create a 5-E Youth Service Corps. The ‘E’s’ stand for energy efficiency, environmental education and employment. This program would directly engage disconnected and disadvantaged young people in energy efficiency and environmental service opportunities to strengthen their communities while also providing them with practical skills and experience in important and growing career field.”

It appears that President Obama went off script when he delivered the speech, but if he went on to deliver these remarks as written, I imagine they will cause some controversy.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; 2012; bhofascism; caughtontape; democrats; hampton; hamptonu; obama; obamaquotes; obamatruthfile; wright
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To: SeekAndFind

It just sounds funny coming from a Muslim , thats all


41 posted on 10/02/2012 7:47:59 PM PDT by sonic109 (The 1st Revolution was about taxes ..the 2nd one will be also)
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To: dandiegirl

Because getting “free shit” trumps all else


42 posted on 10/02/2012 7:48:52 PM PDT by sonic109 (The 1st Revolution was about taxes ..the 2nd one will be also)
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To: MNJohnnie
This exposes the “great uniter” as just another race baiting huckster like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. We all knew this in 2008. The middle, including about 15% of normally GOP voters, did not.

That's one topic I've rarely seen discussed: Jesse Jackson's (1984) candidacy vs. BO's candidacy.

From Wikipedia:

Jackson was the second African-American (after Shirley Chisholm) to mount a nationwide campaign for the presidency, and he was the first African-American candidate to be a serious contender. He got 3.5 million votes during the primaries, third behind Hart and Mondale. He won the primaries in Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, and split Mississippi, where there were two separate contests for Democratic delegates. Through the primaries, Jackson helped confirm the black electorate's importance to the Democratic Party in the South at the time. During the campaign, however, Jackson made an off-the-cuff reference to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown," for which he later apologized. Nonetheless, the remark was widely publicized, and derailed his campaign for the nomination.[4] Jackson ended up winning 21% of the national primary vote but received only 8% of the delegates to the national convention, and he initially charged that his campaign was hurt by the same party rules that allowed Mondale to win. He also poured scorn on Mondale, saying that Hubert Humphrey was the "last significant politician out of the St. Paul-Minneapolis" area.[5]

43 posted on 10/02/2012 7:51:19 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: brent13a

And will the GOP use ANY of the hundreds of quotes that would sink ANY other candidate? NO THEY WONT
The average American is an undereducated idiot. VEY few even know what;s really going on . They thing NBC CBS etc are real news..%50 of the population is TOTALLY brainwashed .we’re in trouble. Beating Obama is only step one. We have to re educate an entire nation


44 posted on 10/02/2012 7:51:52 PM PDT by sonic109 (The 1st Revolution was about taxes ..the 2nd one will be also)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If Jeramiah Wright introduced Barack Hussein to Christ at such a late age what did he believe up until then and did it involve the use of a prayer rug. Unfortunately the majority of blacks in America will slap him on the back and approve of his use of ebonics in this speech. Much like the way they patted Bill Clinton on the back and celebrated him when he was Gettin Some.


45 posted on 10/02/2012 7:56:34 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: paudio

Wright introduced him to the “Social Justice” Jesus that “requires the COMMUNITY TO BE SAVED BEFORE I CAN BE SAVED,” said Barack Hussein Obama. He has said so explicitly on numerous occasions. I don’t know about you, but that ain’t the Jesus I met in the Bible. He is the one I have an INDIVIDUAL relationship with. He said, “No one comes to the father...” not “none of ya’ll”. Time and again I can quaote you til the cows come home, there is NOTHING Jesus said about a “corporate relationship” or response to such a fantasy. This is the same old apostasy Paul and Peter repeatedly warned against saying, “anyone preaching another gospel...” These sort come not from the Father but from the other guy, the one who stalks the earth looking for whom he can devour, the “Father of Lies”. Puts Zero in company with his own kind, I would say. Liars.


46 posted on 10/02/2012 7:56:52 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SERKIT

I’d like to know where Obama was before he met Wright. Wright was becoming a marxist at that time, with ties to Castro’s Cuba and soon, to Libya and Qaddaffi (never explored by the media).

Wright is the professional religious con-man like Michael Lerner, Jim Wallis, etc. In the 1800’s, he would have been a partner with P. T. Barnum.

“There’s a sucker born every minute”.


47 posted on 10/02/2012 8:03:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

None of these quotes sound controversial, really, and could have been said by a (not too conservative) Republican.


48 posted on 10/02/2012 8:05:27 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: Texas4ever

It’s magnificent and a huge tell, the worthless media crips will go crazy with the ‘dats racccisst’ rap.


49 posted on 10/02/2012 8:06:16 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: Texas4ever

National politician is a panderer and a phony, complete story at 11.


50 posted on 10/02/2012 8:36:56 PM PDT by garbanzo (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
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To: nobody in particular
.."We have to train people how to be at work on time"..

Seriously?

51 posted on 10/02/2012 8:48:23 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Those quotes are softened considerably from his actual statements.


52 posted on 10/02/2012 8:49:31 PM PDT by gotribe (WTF?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Not a big story, just a rehash, will not move the needle.


53 posted on 10/02/2012 10:04:59 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: MNJohnnie
I hope you're right. The reality of another year with him in the WH is beyond frightening.

But, the irony of an overwhelming number of white people voting for a mixed race black man to be the "great uniter" and end the racial divide and then, unexpectedly, got obama instead, who has done his best to move society, race relations and everything else backwards, is overwhelming all by itself.

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

54 posted on 10/02/2012 10:17:57 PM PDT by GBA (The line is drawn, two choices left: We must pull back from the line or be forced to cross it.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

George Bush pushed the ‘E’s’ too. Same for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The globalists don’t think there is anything wrong with this statement and in fact pick candidates who will support it.

There are true crimes committed, most recently the revelations of the Libyan embassy, Fast and Furious, and yes, forged documents used as qualification documents for office.

Why don’t people demand accountability for all those? Why chase after a speech (which could be considered political free speech) when both parties are guilty of following the agenda behind it?

Isn’t it odd that Cheryl Saban, wife of the owner of Univision, was reported just yesterday to get a bribe in the guise of a position of representative to the United Nations?

No wonder the government is broke. All these bribes and payoffs are adding up.

Do you think any of this is prosecutable? Shouldn’t that be the focus to bring the country back on track from the socialist state shambles its become?


55 posted on 10/02/2012 10:21:46 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: xzins
Independents probably won’t find them that unusual either.

I think some independents could be swayed by this video. That's IF they see it...

56 posted on 10/02/2012 10:41:37 PM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: "ABO"/Ryan 2012)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

it’s not really 47%. there is a large number, something like 15%, of people polled who claim to be uncommitted or still yet to decide.


57 posted on 10/02/2012 10:45:19 PM PDT by annajones (Please Act)
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To: annajones

the video was played on Sean Hannity’s show. my husband heard it and said it’s VERY racist.


58 posted on 10/02/2012 10:49:09 PM PDT by annajones (Please Act)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hurricane Katrina “was a powerful metaphor for what’s gone [in America] on for generations.”

Yeah, Democrat political machines killing people for political advantage.
59 posted on 10/02/2012 10:52:32 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; hedgetrimmer; GBA; nwrep; gotribe; SGCOS; garbanzo; iopscusa; 92nina; ...
This is not from the written Obama-approved transcript... Here's one of the "off script" Obama clips that Hannity played tonight:

"When Hurricane Andrew struck Florida, people said 'Look at this devastation! We don't expect you to come up with your own money... here!'"

"What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money? Makes no sense."

"Tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out." **sustained applause from the crowd**

"Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans... they don't care about as much."

So what does the "Tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out." statement mean? It certainly got a reaction from the crowd...

60 posted on 10/02/2012 10:56:57 PM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: "ABO"/Ryan 2012)
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