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LIVE THREAD - Under Pressure, Obama Prepares for Race and Unity Speech
Fox News ^ | 18 March 2008

Posted on 03/18/2008 6:12:13 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: longtermmemmory
If whites won't voluntarily go to inner city schools Obama will force them.
681 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:37 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: TeleStraightShooter

“we do not need to recite the litany or racial injustices that happened in this country..”

SO why not celebrate the progress we made instead?

The mask is slipping - so much for his being POST-racial or whatever the progressives are calling this line of bs these days


682 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:38 AM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: Miss Didi

What?? You mean Newsmax was right about O being at the infamous service??


683 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:43 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: TeleStraightShooter

“we do not need to recite the litany or racial injustices that happened in this country..”

SO why not celebrate the progress we made instead?

The mask is slipping - so much for his being POST-racial or whatever the progressives are calling this line of bs these days


684 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:44 AM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo


685 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:47 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: sofaman
"You whites (and Jews) need to understand ..." Wait a second! I'm a White African-American Jew .... and I still think that Wright is a racist and an anti-Semite ..

Thank you for your honesty. Wright has set back race relations by fifty years and Obamalama is his disciple. This goes to the heart of who Obama really is and what he really thinks. I know in my heart he does not represent you or multitudes of others but his hate filled rhetoric has now placed in the heart of every American who has heard his rants a genuine concern and fear of Obama and what "CHANGE" he really wants to make and where he really wants to take America...

For Obama not to disassociate himself and his family TOTALLY from Wright and his racist so-called "church" speaks volumes more than his little speech.

One more thing; regarding Katrina, the people of NO were warned to leave, and given ample opportunity to leave BUT mayor Nagain totally dropped the ball for those who did not have to means to leave by leaving the school buses and other public transportation in the lots to get flooded. Many stayed, for whatever reason of their own accord and when the rains descended and the floods finally came... "save me," "save me", bad BUSH, racist BUSH. The fact of the matter is, many people of all races that stayed in NO until it was too late made their own bed and once they had to lay in it, decided they wanted to abdicate their own PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and blame someone else.

686 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:56 AM PDT by Jmouse007
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To: sportutegrl

Drudge has the entire text of the speech posted


687 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:02 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: kabar

A lot of what was on there has been removed — the whole site has been whitewashed (excuse the word). This remains — for now.


688 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:10 AM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you treat conservatives the way you do fellow senators John, Hillary and Barack?)
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To: TeleStraightShooter
He is arrogant.I have a few words for him.
689 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:14 AM PDT by fatima
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To: jbarkley
Nice for him to throw his grandmother under the bus.

Yep, he's a politician. He will do anything to get to the position he wants; even if it takes insulting and demeaning the grandmother who raised him.

690 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:17 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: TomGuy

REPARATIONS!


691 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:19 AM PDT by maggief
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To: AGreatPer

At least he’s not “ridin’ dirty”


692 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:22 AM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Have the fathers stay home and there will be no problems in the schools.


693 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:22 AM PDT by toddlintown (On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")
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To: Dinah Lord

we was treated so bad we was treated so bad we was treated so bad....and we will never get over it.


694 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:23 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: mware

Uh oh. He waltzed through the problem of school inequality without including the problem of “acting white if a black child reads a book”.


695 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:25 AM PDT by Timeout
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To: tobyhill
Race matters more to Obama than doing what's right for America.

If this man becomes POTUS, this country is in real trouble.

696 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:35 AM PDT by RightField (The older you get .... the older "old" is.)
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To: over3Owithabrain

blacks were not allowed private property?

except sweetheart deals from Whitey developers like Rezco


697 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:36 AM PDT by wilco200
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To: jdm

No he cannot disown his racist church, which is STILL racist, the new pastor is defending Wright, as is the congregation.


698 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:37 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: TomGuy

His mother cringed at passing Black men on the street?

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His grandmother! Who apparently preferred that her daughter marry the father of her baby, rather than do what modern feminists and NARAL would have recommended.


699 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:38 AM PDT by maica (Romney '08 + McCain, because it is essential to stop socialism at the voting booth.)
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To: AGreatPer

He expresses sorrow for poor people (Note to Obama— your wife wants blacks to stay in underpaying jobs)


700 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:47 AM PDT by syriacus (Michelle-O was proud of U of C volunteers in 1997. When did she become "unproud" of America?)
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