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Posted on 03/18/2008 2:53:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama says US cannot ignore race
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soOOOoooo.. when is he gonna show up at a nascar race?
we post race threads here all the time, btw. :-}
I really detest people who seek to stir up hatred and distrust under the cloak of immunity and guise of authority just because they are speaking from a pulpit.
ap piece
Analysis: Obama grabs race issue
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_el_pr/obama_race_matters
Obama grabs the 3rd rail of politics.. reminds me of the fella that grabbed a 3rd rail in california not so long ago,, Prop 13. ;-)
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We aren't. And unfortunately for Obama, we aren't going to ignore race hustlers, either.
that ap link is a thread here as well.
Analysis: Obama Grabs Race Issue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987798/posts
I submit that most Americans can ignore race. I suggest that all Americans who can’t ignore race simply leave for another country.
Talking about racism only perpetuates it. It can only end if we all ignore it. Impossible?
Maybe not.
Yay-yah! You go to the top of the class, girl, cause you’ve got it!!! (terrific posted reply!!!)
All I gits fer that second picher is a red “X” so yew bedder fixit or I’ll tell on yew!!!
Lol, Obama’s pretty fractured right now from the tales he told!
Very nice devolve.
I’m scared to look - if she gets any bigger!
"It was a fine speech for fluffing supporters: it failed to do what it needed to do."
Obama Supporters are missing the point, as did Obama. This speech was great troop fodder, but to anyone coming in ambivalent or skeptical...it completely missed the mark. These important points were missed, or brought up and not supported.
1) He was present for Wright's speeches
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: he said nothing about not being there or not hearing the "GOD DAMN AMERICA" speech. This was a major omission.
2) He won't distance himself from Wright.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: this issue was key if he wanted to defuse the "guilt by association" issue. Does it matter to you that he wouldn't "throw Wright under the bus?" Likely. Does it matter to those who saw this as racist or anti-American that he DID NOT "throw Wright under the bus?" ABSOLUTELY. Another MAJOR omission.
3) He didn't leave the church. He spent 20 years there listening to Dr. Wright, and gave no good justification.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: This speech was not supposed to be for supporters. He WAS at this church for 20 years. During that time, detractors are going to find it impossible to believe that he did not agree with everything said. Now I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but I pulled my kids out of a church my family had belonged to for 20+ years and my late father had been a deacon of because they started on a "Love the sinner/Hate the sin" tact related to the Gay community. If I can do that, what are less tolerant people going to believe of him?
4) He identifies with several important white people in his life, such as his mother and grandmother.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: This UNFORTUNATELY sets up #4.
5) He blames Dr. Wright's racism on white society.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: the way he words it, yes, he does blame it on white society. He speaks of current "...endemic white racism..." This isn't history, and it makes it look like he is betraying his mother and grandmother.
6) He asks us to UNDERSTAND Wright's message.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: this was exactly what he DID NOT need to do. This was to distance from that message. Instead, it looks like he reinforced it, and therefore in the eyes of detractors, embraced it.
7) He rationalizes Wright's racism.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: People who needed to be shown he was not racist and did not support Wright's racist message were likely not reassured.
8) He defends his membership in said church.
What he NEEDED TO SAY BUT DIDN'T: you can see that this is not what he needed to do. Supporters are forgiving of any issue that might have a negative slant. This does nothing to dispel this slant. I know people, not very SOPHISTICATED people, put sharp enough to go to the Trinity Web site, which, to someone with a somewhat closed mind, reads like an AFRICAN SEPARIST church web site. THIS may have been the myth he most needed to dispel, and he completely failed.
Rest assured, I do not think him a racist. I do not think him stupid. But this speech does nothing it needed to do. As a supporter, you heard and read what you wanted to get out of the speech. The person he needed to convince sat there saying "...yeah, yeah, get ON With it; clear it up or shut up." He did neither. In my opinion, his speech failed to convince the unbeliever. This was the wrong speech at the wrong time."
We might could get past the “race” issue - if folks like Obama, Wright, Sharpton, Jackson, et-al would DROP it... Just about the time people start to forget about race, these nut-jobs dredge up garbage and stir the pot back up...
“If you weren’t black, you’d have been a footnote in this campaign.”
Geraldine agrees.
;-)
Truthfully, America does not need A racist Negro lecturing us on anything concerning race relations.
While Obuma set in his (domestic terrorist church) and listened to the anti-America/ anti-White rants, he said nothing. Obuma’s silence is a true indicator of his real racist beliefs.
We cannot let Obuma and his evil spawn turn America into a Mugabe led South Africa.
I have no respect for anyone who will not pledge alligiance to America and place their hand over their heart. Anyone who will not wear an American Flag lapel pin on their suit jacket is a anti-American.
I wish one of the reporters would ask the Magic Negro why he did not serve in our military.
The real truth about Obuma, his pastor, wife and church members are nothing more than racist hate mongering POS.
You are right Polybius, we will remember in November and send his ass packing.
Respectfully,
NSNR
But this warrior is unable to even defend his nation with a whisper when it is under the most perverse of attacks in the very church he attends. What a sorry specimen.
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Wow, shades of Peter Max!! Great color combinations. Good post devolve.
Thanks...
Good one.
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