Obamarama's Non-apology

[ColonialMarine0431]

What a (s)tool...

Obama Merely Changes The Subject
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Election '08: Rather than break ties with his demagogic, anti-American pastor, Barack Obama used a speech on race to excuse his behavior and sweep the controversy under the rug. Passing the buck is not very presidential.

Speaking in Philadelphia, steps away from where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were enacted, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president delivered an address that used the words "race" or "races" 11 times, "racial" or "racially" 15 times, and "racism" or "racist" six times.

But Obama's recent troubles, which this much-hyped speech was supposed to put past him, are not about race relations. They're about one churchman who happens to be black, whose views from the pulpit are repugnant and from whom Obama doesn't seem to have the guts to distance himself.

Reacting to being linked with a bigoted conspiracy theorist by lecturing the nation on race is like disgraced ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer responding to his getting caught patronizing an international prostitution ring by giving a speech on the female physique.

The supposed divide between black and white is not the issue here; Obama's longtime association with Jeremiah Wright is.

This is a man who believes the U.S. government formulated the HIV virus to commit genocide against blacks and that it is also responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Yes, Obama claimed in his speech to have "condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy." But he quickly proceeded to equivocate regarding them.

The problem, according to Obama, is not that Wright is wrong about America being a racist society, but that he "sees white racism as endemic." The problem is not that Wright has made statements that clearly seem anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli, but that he, as Obama puts it, "sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."

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Shuckin' n' jivin' as usual.

[federalisthoosier]

Nut country baby. The saviour who will lead us out of reality is here.

[PrezLeefun]

The title of this thread says it all. It was nearly 40 minutes of nothing and too little too late.

[PaulRevere]

... Obama concedes that "the erosion of black families" is "a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened," he fails to understand what "Wealth and Poverty" author George Gilder knew back in 1981:
"What actually happened since 1964 was a vast expansion of the welfare rolls that halted in its tracks an ongoing improvement in the lives of the poor, particularly blacks, and left behind . . . a wreckage of broken lives and families worse than the aftermath of slavery."
Firstly, there was no "may have" about the destruction of black society wrought by liberalism in 1964.

Secondly, it's not that they don't know - it's that they don't care. It's easier to control your power base when you make them emotionally and financially dependent on you; hence is the role of black klansmen on the pulpit - spew hatred towards "rich white people" in order to keep poor unhappy black people poorer and angrier, directing their anger at whitey in hopes that by electing rich white people like Gore, Kerry, et al, they tax whitey more and shower black people, disabled by racist hatred and intentionally made to feel that they cannot make it on their own, with whitey's money.

Democrats are evil, and race-baiters like Wright are little more than task masters whose job it is to keep blacks trapped on the Democrats' plantation - poor and angry.

[edgeworth]

I must admit that I started out defending Obama before this speech he gave. But I'm done now. After listening to this speech that Obama delivered and comparing it to what he said Friday night on Fox I am fed up with him. He not only completely, flat out lied to the American people but he never even really talked that much about the issue. Instead, he went off on some obscure tangent about race in America. Revrend Wright's words were disgusting and repulsive and his inability to denounce the revrend and the fact that he lied about not being in the church leaves me to believe one of two things. 1. That Obama really has a great attachment to Wright, which is scary. 2.That Obama actually believes what the revrend is saying about America and was trying to hide the fact that he listened to his hateful sermons, which is infinitely scarier. I'm just gald that this was exposed before Obama could have won the presidency and not after.