LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech

Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

[SE Mom]

Barack Obama is preparing to deliver a major address Tuesday on race, politics and unifying the country after being hounded by questions about his relationship to a pastor whose sermons have been laced with anti-American invective.

In a speech whose religious significance could compare to one given in December by former GOP presidential hopeful and Mormon Mitt Romney, Obama may be forced to explain the philosophy of the 8,000-strong Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the Democratic presidential candidate has been a congregant for 20 years.

In announcing the morning address, to be delivered in Philadelphia, Obama would not say specifically what he will discuss, but suggested he wants to cool down the atmosphere after incendiary remarks by his pastor, retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., blanketed the airwaves over the past week.

[BobinIL]

His wife has the blood of slaves running through her veins! Hallelujah!
So does just about everyone else on the planet. Slavery was a worldwide practice for a long time.

My wife is Greek and her ancestors were enslaved by the Romans (Italians) And the are keeping me down, I need some reparations fast!!!

[toddlintown]

So far, he ain’t saying nuttin.

[syriacus]

Wright was a marine. So was John Murtha, unindicted Abscam co-conspirator.

[syriacus]

Wright was a marine. So was John Murtha, unindicted Abscam co-conspirator.

[Roccus]

Houlary Obanton?

[Interesting Times]

No one can truly claim to be a former slave until they have worked in a call center.

"In level two support, no one can hear you scream."

[Dinah Lord]

Not exactly soaring rhetoric...

this is kind of a subdued stump speech

[Kozak]

So the rev was a former Marine. So was Oswald.
And Benedict Arnold was a US Army general. So what?

[Miss Didi]

Lobsta...will you be giving this a claw rating?

[kabar]

THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM, which is the foundation of this church. It is a racist document. Obama should be asked about whether he subscribes to this document.

[RightField]

LOL

[rock_lobsta]

No one can truly claim to be a former slave until they have worked in a call center.

Testify, FRiend!

[Red_Devil 232]

Michelle has a hate filled heart!

[maica]

And I’ve noticed a few times this morning that the supportive pundits are calling him bi-racial or multi-ethnic, not black or AA.

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He found his home after he decided to make Chicago his residence. What took him to Chicago?

When he went to Columbia University he was in actuality a foreign student, never having previously lived in CONUS. At Columbia and Harvard he must have learned a whole lol to racial grievance ideology. He made the decision to set his future with the racial politics of Chicago.

He did not “hear” the ugly words of Rev Wright, because they just sounded like ‘normal’ speech to him.

This is HIS IDEOLOGY, not the Rev Wright’s alone, and he cannot dance away from it!

[gridlock]

Some audio tech is going to be fired by the end of the day. The mike is terrible.

[sageb1]

Obama’s Kitchen Sink speech

[Lee'sGhost]

Excellent post.

[Fox_Mulder77]

“The words that stick, are “I did hear those comments during the sermons.””

HEHE!!!
They’ll be the ones used on talk radio, Fox News, and blogs/forums, but they wont be uttered in the empty halls of the MSM.

[maggief]

Who’s tears and blood is he talking about?

His white grandparents who raised him?

[Kozak]

So THAT’s why granny is under house arrest.