This is the core of the problem for "race relations".
There are those that would keep the grievances of the black man in the forefront, if only to further their own wealth and power.
He broke one of the cardinal rules of politics:
Do not let your political enemies define you.........
Live by the race card, die by the race card.
Yeah, anyone who reads the news, listens to radio or even watches evening news...would see through that speech. However the bulk of Obama’s support is obviously coming from the O. J. Simpson crowd, (sorry for that stereotype, but it’s true). West Virginia’s crowds were polled and very few if any had heard about reverend White.
Kennedy gave his speech to a group of Christian and Jewieh clergy. He fielded questions. He went into the lion’s den. Obama spoke to a padded crowd.
Yeah, anyone who reads the news, listens to radio or even watches evening news...would see through that speech. However the bulk of Obama’s support is obviously coming from the O. J. Simpson crowd, (sorry for that stereotype, but it’s true). West Virginia’s crowds were polled and very few if any had heard about reverend White.
Kennedy gave his speech to a group of Christian and Jewieh clergy. He fielded questions. He went into the lion’s den. Obama spoke to a padded crowd.
This mirror’s Kristol’s excellent article from today.
Please see: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/opinion/24kristol.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
It’s not what you say... it’s HOW you say it!
Come on Barrack granny goes under the bus your pastor gets your admiration and support for hating America but the real crime is your lack of judgement. Wright was a liar and wrong for preaching this junk to the congregation. You stood idly by and allowed him to preach lies. You lack courage and judgement you should have corrected him and shown him truth had you attempted that you would be in a much better position to talk about transendence instead I am sure you were too busy stamping out MLK’s dream on a young conservative judicial nominee...
Though her reasoning matches quite a few around here - She'd vote against Hilary or McCain - if McCain's running against Hillary, she'll hold her nose. If Obama’s running against him, she'll buy the dogma that Obama’s less worse than McCain.
I'm not going to read this article having sworn to never read the LA Times again. I mean never, ever, ever.
OTOH, the first paragraph is stunning in it's accuracy. So unlike the Times. The writer will likely be gone before the sun sets on downtown LA.
Frankly, there was nothing brilliant about that speech. Only a liberal presstitute would imagine that it was. Also, only a starry eyed liberal would ever have imagined, after looking even briefly into his political record and his church, that Barack really meant what he said about rising above race, since he has made a political living out of playing the race card ever since he got to Chicago.
But it’s true that he revealed himself in this speech. There was nothing revealed that couldn’t have been seen by anyone who bothered to look. But he did manage to put it right out there where it was simply unavoidable.
Throwing his white grandmother under the bus after she spent many years lovingly raising him and paying for his private education, after his feckless parents abandoned him, was the worst aspect of that speech, however. He deserves to have that contemptuous phrase, “typical white person,” follow him around for the rest of his hopefully short political career.
First two sentences of the piece say it all.
I have a white male friend, about 60, who used to be moderate right but has gone over to the dark side, who has fallen head over heels for Obama. The speech cemented his feelings. I find that incomprehensible, but it’s so. Lots of mushy-headed liberals said “Right on!” after The Oration, so while we may think the guy laid a big egg, the Messiah’s disciples think it ranks right up there with the Sermon on the Mount.
obama the marxist is in the democratic party of permanent division and race and class envy.
Obama's in trouble if even the LA Times recognizes that he threw his "typical white person" grandma under the bus.
More “dialogue” on race relations? What they really want is more monologue.
So now we are back in the gutter. So be it. Whitey didn't start it. Obama didn't finish it. McCain just might win it.
The whole idea that a speech could get Osamabama out of this mess is ridiculous. Can you imagine the NYT suddenly supporting David Duke for President on the basis of one speech?