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Barack Obama Channels Robert F. Kennedy Speech After Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination to Distance Himself from Jeremiah Wright
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Barack Obama reflects on Bobby Kennedy’s MLK speech in Indianapolis on March 15, 2008
Barack Obama in his first campaign speech since his appearance on Cable News networks yesterday evening attempting to explain/excuse/damage control his association with Jeremiah Wright channels Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s speech at the time of the Martin Luther King,Jr. shooting.
Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried “the forces of division” over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest.
“We have to come together,” he told a town-hall meeting at a high school.
Obama cited inflammatory remarks made by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him—remarks that Obama has denounced.
“If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked,” Obama said.
Obama suggested that more and more is being made of racial divisions as his contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton heats up.
“The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again,” Obama said.
“It reminds me: We’ve got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.”
The text of his remarks are here.
But, if these shocking remarks of Jeremiah Wright are being used as political ammunition then why doesn’t Obama QUIT this church – and why didn’t Obama QUIT years ago?
Later, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren: “In terms of Sen. Obama, I think he has a credibility question.â€
Gingrich continued: “Does he honestly expect the nation to believe that for 20 years, longer than 20 years, according to his own testimony, … he didn’t notice the anti-American rhetoric? I mean, does somebody seriously believe that in over 800 potential Sunday visits, it never once came up, no one ever mentioned it to him? I think that strains credibility.â€
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Barack Obama’s Spiritual Advisor and pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright Blames the US for the Terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001
And, what about when Pastor Jeremiah Wright offered these up quotes five days after 9/11 in 2001 (video above):
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye….We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
Obama was an Illinois State Senator at the time. Does anyone REALLY believe someone did NOT tell him about this sermon/rant? Please…… this strains belief.
Obama is shocked because he has FINALLY been called to account for his association with this anti-American and anti-white preacher. He won’t condemn Wright just as he NEVER left HIS church.
Channeling Robert Kennedy is not going to help or excuse his poor judgment. Obama’s damage control is poor.
Kaus has it right: The First Law of Obama – “If it offends you, I condemn it!”But, Flap will give you The Second Law of Obama – “If I am called on something OFFENSIVE, I will play the post-racial figure card.“
Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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Barack Obama Watch: The Jeremiah Wright Credibility Problem
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2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee contender Senator Barack Obama makes an appearance on Hannity and Colmes on the Fox News network to discuss his mentor and pastor of 20 years Jeremiah Wright and the controversial statements which he has made from the pulpit for so many years.
Listen to Barack Obama above and read his MEA CULPA piece over at the Huffington Post and explain to Flap how Obama retains any credibility – not to mention whether he has used good judgment.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2FCJ7zWEQ&eurl=http://flapsblog.com/[/youtube]The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side.
Obama is asking voters to believe that he attended a church where Jeremiah Wright was the Pastor for ove twenty years and was NOT aware of his anti-American and anti-White statements and rants.
If it were true that Obama never knew that Wright was making highly objectionable comments until the start of the presidential campaign, and if Obama denounced the comments at that time, then I think he would have a good defense, i.e., he belonged to the church for years without knowing Wright’s anti-American, anti-white, and generally crazy views, and by the time he learned about them Wright was on the way out, so it made little sense to quit the church – denouncing the statements was enough.
Note, however, that Obama doesn’t say he didn’t know Wright was making highly objectionable comments, only that he never personally heard “the statements. . .that are the cause of this controversy.†It’s plausible that Obama might not have heard (or gotten wind of) the several sermons that have been the focus of this controversy. It’s less plausible that, over a 20-year period, Obama was oblivious to the strong anti-white, anti-American views of Wright. (emphasis Flap’s)
Also, I’d like to see the statements Obama allegedly made denouncing Wright’s comments once he says he learned of them. The statements by Obama that I’m aware of characterized Wright’s comments as merely “provocative†(that, according to ABC News, was Obama’s reaction to Wright’s statement that the U.S. had 9/11 coming) and the kinds of things an eccentric uncle might say. That’s far from a denunciation. In fact, ABC News quoted Obama as saying, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” That’s even further from a denunciation. And we also know that Obama placed Wright on a special committee of religious leaders supporting his candidacy after Obama became aware of at least one of Wright’s statements in issue.
FInally, Obama to my knowledge hasn’t denied he knew that Wright had honored Louis Farrakhan. Knowing that one fact should have caused Obama to look elsewhere for a spiritual leader, assuming he is strongly opposed to what Farrakhan stands for.
This is NOT believable.
Either Obama is blatantly LYING or is DISINGENUOUS.
Michelle Malkin calls Obama a “TYPICAL POLITICIAN.”
Wow. You could see Glowbama’s halo flickering. He looked and sounded nervous, shifty, and truth-challenged as he tried to have it both ways with Jeremiah Wright (whom he continued to praise as a “Biblical scholar†and “well-regarded†even as he paid lip service to disavowing him and denied eeeever hearing Wright’s vitriol).
Indeed, Obama looked and spoke ill-at-ease. Flap twittered such at the time and his impressions of Obama were not kind.
Obama has lost all of his credibility in this flap. Put a fork in him – He’s done. The Democrat Super Delegates will vote for Hillary.
Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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Day By Day by Chris Muir March 15, 2008
Could it be, Chris, that the LEFT and the so-called progressives do NOT know how to argue without logical fallacies and RUDE behavior?
This has been Flap’s experience.
Could it be they ACTUALLY realize they cannot win on the merits of their arguments?
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links for 2008-03-15
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Barack Obama has pulled almost even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials and has cut into her lead among the other superdelegates she’s relying on to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Obama’s Sounding Board…..
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Will this guilt by association hurt Obama more than McCain? Yep…..
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From January 2007
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Kos Kids spinning like Iranian centrifuges – what a wonderful line from Charles Johnson at LGF
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Canada’s birthrate is below replacement. Native Canadians may be crowded out eventually – sort of like France, eh?
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More more…….
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