Obama speech

[ichy_trigger]

I think he needed a few more American flags...lol

i think he put alot of time into it but I believe that if he was truly against what his pastor was spilling in church, he would have found a church that was more along his own views and values.

I dont believe him.

[NC Dave]

Here is the text of the speech.

"It is not about race", and here is 9 pages of printed text about race to show how it is not about race???

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2008®

[Judge]

Posted by Lopez in The Corner... thought it summed up the speech pretty dang well:


The more I think about this speech, the more I think Obama said: Damn straight, Rev. Wright is angry. That's how I wound up at his church. That's why I stay there. I'm mad too, I just control it better. Now let's get electing me president so we can all feel good.

[Palmguy]

Smoke, mirrors, and more BS.

[LUVMYSIGP225]

Obama is a douchebag. My blood boils just to look at him.

[Brickboy240]

Obama should have listned to our founders more closely.

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

George Washington's words might have helped the young and ambitious Obama out before he chose to associate with the likes of Reverend Wrong.

- Brickboy240

[Sparks007]

Slavery..Blah, blah, blah.
Slavery..Blah,blah blah.
Slavery, Blah, blah, blah.

Wright is still my friend. Blah, blah blah.

You know what? If it smells like sh**...It's sh**.
I will never believe him.

[Etta Place]

I thought it was a brilliant speech. And, Obama addressed in his speech some of the thinking that takes place on this very website.

[Etta Place]

Highlights:

But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.

This is where we are right now. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.

[Judge]

Murtha was a marine, Arnold was in the Contentinental Army, Hassen was an FBI agent... your point about the nut being in the Marines?

I simply refer to Murtha as an ex-Marine. He's the only one I know of...

Obama is simply arguing that he's listened to a lunatic and nut who preaches liberation theology for 20 years and we still should elect him to the highest office in the land, where he can implement those concepts.... He packaged it well though.

That's not brilliant, that's deceitful.