Comments on: Why Obama’s Speech Failed

By: VinceP1974

VinceP1974 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:49:42 +0000

I dont think this sets anything back.

i know this is a surprise to aging hippies and other leftist.. but most of us DON’T CARE ABOUT RACE. We have moved on.

Only people who are obssesed with race will be effected by this

By: BarbaraS

BarbaraS — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:42:50 +0000

This whole hoopla has set race relations back decades. Now we will wonder if certain blacks go to these churches and have this attitude. It really explains the hostility you see in some blacks. But this black supremacy is not the worst. I saw on a link to Little Green Footballs where Rev Wright’s masters’ thesis was on Islam in Africa. He said so on his pastor’s page of the church bulletin. Is it possible that this church is a mix of black supremism and Islam? Rev Wright is evidently in sympathy with the Palestinians. Is this why Obama is so loyal to this man and this church?

By: the struggler

the struggler — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:18:02 +0000

“…those people who need to talk about race seem to be asking for therapy.”

Amen brutha.

the struggler—-Down with the struggle before being down with the struggle was cool.

By: owl

owl — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:58:25 +0000

Momdear
Mexicans are neither lazy nor dumb. They are more of a conservative family group that are hard workers. They are not as ambitious as some but extremely likable as a people. They have not been raised with a sense of entitlement. They have developed some new attitudes. They are now exposed to the Dem’s MSM. If you send their kids to our schools………………..

Obama has a problem. Most of the ‘whiteys’ that Wright was screaming about have moved past all this hate. Obama seems to think it is so ingrained in us that we can’t.

You can listen to Farrakhan or Wright, and you will hear almost exactly the same message. Conyers created the Congressional Black Caucus. They do not believe in equality. They believe they are superior. It is the same-o black power millitant message of many years past.

No one calls them on it. Why should we allow CBC? Because we have all been made to feel too guilty and do not want to be labeled racist. Even in Congress. Conyers is a Farrakhan supporter. But these are the people who pass hate crime legislation.

Imagine voting on legislation after you have sat and listened to this.

By: Neo

Neo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:25:40 +0000

Values spoken without actions taken are just slogans. Values are not just words. They're what we live by. They're about the causes we champion and the people we fight for. -- John Kerry

By: momdear1

momdear1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:02 +0000

It’s obvious that the members of Rev. Wright’s church believe every word the Rev. says and they see Obama as their knight in shinning armor who will overcome the rule of “the evil whites and Jews” and put them in charge. The sad thing is that they have not shown that they are capable of taking charge and running things. Examples: South Africa…Shortly after blacks took control, gangs raided outlying towns, looted the stores and burned everything to the ground. Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe…Blacks were told that whites were rich because they owned the land. So they put one of their own in charge, evicted or killed off the white farmers, and distributed the land to the “rightful” owners who are all black. Today nobody works the land and the new black owners squat on the land and blame the former white owners because they are still poor and starving because they think the whites took the wealth with them. The same will be true if Mexico takes over the SouthWest. Do they really think that if that territory becomes a part of Mexico all the property and businesses now owned by Americans would automatically be theirs? If it should ever happen, within a short time it would be just like the rest of Mexico. If the Mexicans were capable of handling a developed area like the Southwest, there would be similar developed areas in Mexico today.

One of the biggest disappointments in store for Obama’s black supporters is that his winning the Presidency is not going to change anything for them. Even if he redistributed everything in America to them, they have not shown that they could take care of it. After observing numerous attempts to help blacks lift themselves up out of poverty,I have come to believe that they do not want what the rest of us have, they just don’t want anyone to have more than they have.

I see Obama as one of those clever sociopaths who has the ability to con his people into thinking he will elevate them all to positions of power so that they can can get even and punish those whom they blame for their miseries, while at the same time conning the other side into thinking he is a healer who will solve the problem of calming the agitated masses who blame them for their inadequacies.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:05:51 +0000

Well they probably polled politically active ministers. I think there are a lot of regular people who just do not want to go there.

Wright reminds me of Ward Churchill. Remember him? The so-called Native American college professor who called the 9/11 victims “little Eichmans”…

He was no more Indian than I am, in fact considering the fact that I have ancestors who walked the Trail of Tears I guess I could say I am a lot more native than he is.

By: cj_thespook

cj_thespook — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:53:28 +0000

Lurker,

Like I said, and stand by my statement from MY experience. I don’t know every black minister in the USA nor have I attended every black church in the USA.

By: lurker9876

lurker9876 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:59:24 +0000

CJ_THESPOOK,

Unfortunately, Newsweek polled several black churches to see if their pastors say the things that Wright had been saying for twenty years.

The answer is yes.

By: cj_thespook

cj_thespook — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:01:04 +0000

I still refuse to believe, that a person goes to the same church for 20 yrs, has the same pastor for 20 yrs, and never heard that minister make racial comments like the ones showing on all the tv news. I have gone to church my entire life (46 yrs) and have attended many different denominations including some black churches, NEVER EVER have I EVER heard a minister say those things this man said to his congregation nor heard one curse at the pulpit. Obama is being disingenious when he makes claim that black ministers say outlandish things in the *heat of the moment*. We Baptist consider Mr Wright’s type of preaching the *Hell, Fire, And Brimestone Preacher* which are fine, but like I said above NEVER EVER have I sat in and heard any one of those type ministers say such vile things and had they said vile remarks like Mr. Wright’s they would had been asked to leave the church. FIRED! Lastly, doing good deeds does not excuse nor does it make up for spread hate and lies. Mr. Wright who is suppose to be an example among men, who is suppose to teach the LOVE of GOD has squandered away all his good deeds by his vile mouth. Sham on Obama!

By: Mark_for_Senate

Mark_for_Senate — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:54:26 +0000

Victor Davis Hanson summed up the speech very succinctly. Check it out. It’s short sweet and accurate.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODRiMDFlMjNlNmUyYjMyZjM5OWU5ZWM1N2VlOTJmZjQ=

By: VA Voter

VA Voter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:47:11 +0000

Re: Previous comment.

I didn’t mean they are talking to each other. What I meant was the similarities.

By: VA Voter

VA Voter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:45:08 +0000

AJ,

Watcha think about a connection between this radical cleric stirring up hatred among the disadvantaged and Islamic clerics?

By: WWS

WWS — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:04:29 +0000

Feel good news of the morning:

Sen. Hillary Clinton has extended her lead over Sen. Barack Obama among registered Democrats likely to vote in the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, a poll released today shows.
Clinton of New York leads Obama of Illinois by 16 percentage points — 51 percent to 35 percent — according to the Franklin & Marshall Poll conducted for the Tribune-Review, WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh and other news outlets. Nearly one in seven likely Democratic voters — 13 percent — are undecided.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_558179.html