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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
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; bigot; bigotbarack; blacktheology; dncfalseprophets; elections; falseprophets; hatewhitey; hitler; ideologue; jeremiahsmessiah; jeremiahwright; liberalracism; nobama; obama; politicsofoppression; racism; taqiyya
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To: spectre

“Demanding more from fathers” ???

What fathers?


801 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:09 AM PDT by maggief
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To: All
Based upon the comments here we may have to Support Obama. Remember. We want,


802 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:15 AM PDT by McGruff (Tribal name: 'One with many knives in back')
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For realssssss?????

LOL

After hearing racist America hating Wright, I don’t want BO lecturing us about the hardships of blacks.


803 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:15 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: GVnana

"Can't we all get along?"

804 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:16 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: SE Mom

Yup! I will have to put up a “speaker alert” tonight!


805 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:21 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
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To: Bender2

Has he blamed Bush yet?


806 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:22 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: TomGuy

I disagree. I think the liberal talking heads are going to LOVE this speech. For a few days- SOME libs were in the position of having to wonder about him- this speech has enough they can quote to cover for him.


807 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:29 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: JFC

“I dreamed last night that MCCAIN looked like Allen Jackson, and it woke me up out of a deep sleep, thinking............. now that would work.”

Yep, that would work! At least he doesn’t look like Uncle Fester! :)

OMG! Obama is blaming everybody but Wright!


808 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:37 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Vote Obama! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)
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To: Bosco

Not to mention that Dennis Prager will most likely do the same thing - KRLA870AM. Same time as Rush, different channel.


809 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:42 AM PDT by Max7
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To: SE Mom

Missed it.I am cursing now.He is getting on my nerves.


810 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:45 AM PDT by fatima
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To: longtermmemmory

He is far from finished. He will get the Dem nomination.


811 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:48 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SpaceBar

The funny thing is, as the campaign went on, I found myself liking him. Not his policies, but the way he dealt with the many Hillary attacks. That is all gone. He is toast in a general ONLY if outside groups remind voters. McCain won’t.


812 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:50 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama disses his white grandma to lift up Wright. He is a pig.)
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To: Always Right
The obligatory shots at evil talk radio and Ronnie Raygun.

Yep.

813 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:52 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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To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief

That part of the speech was supposed to show an even-handed empathy for the “white plight.” Instead it came off as preachy and critical of Reagan, conservatives, talk show hosts, etc.

He can’t help himself.

Now back to the old class warfare stuff.


814 posted on 03/18/2008 8:19:55 AM PDT by Oliver Optic
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To: SE Mom

The libs may, but for Indies like myself, sitting on the fence, this has pushed me into the McCain corner.


815 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:18 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Darth Republican

Kudos. Miami Vice on a FReeping thread.


816 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:22 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: longtermmemmory
It is not enthusiastic it is barely scripted politeness.

The way it stops and starts on a dime indicates an applause light or something.

817 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:25 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: SE Mom

It seems that Obama has learned more from Rev. Wright than he cares to admit.

The undercurrent in this speech supports what Wright has been preaching.


818 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:25 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ari-freedom

Obama seems absolutely obsessed with race.


819 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:27 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Oliver Optic
Now back to the old class warfare stuff.

Yep.

820 posted on 03/18/2008 8:20:30 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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