(2008-03-18) — In a landmark address on race, which has already eclipsed Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream‘ speech, Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama today said the U.S. can achieve the Founding Fathers’ vision of “a more perfect union” only if black and white come together to overthrow the bourgeoisie who run the military-industrial complex and control the means of production.
In distancing himself from the “wrong” and “divisive” racially-charged preaching of his long-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Obama simultaneously defused America’s racial tensions, while filling his listeners with “the audacity to hope that the empire of American military and economic might would soon come to an end.”
“When the means of production are in the hands of you, the proletariat,” Sen. Obama told an audience in Philadelphia, “only then will black and white blend together in harmony the way they do in my own DNA.”
The Democrat presidential frontrunner painted a picture of “a glorious future when America shall truly be one nation, under God, in which God administers schools, hospitals and most other sectors of the economy through his anointed servants in the federal government, using the harvest of plenty gathered from the pockets of black people and white people alike.”
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1 onlineanalyst // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:42 am
Obama (2008): “I have a dream that all Americans can be unified by grinding poverty. And I am the candidate that you are looking for to bring about this change.”
2 Shelly // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:50 am
I watched the speech myself, and I must say that Scott, as usual, has nailed it. It’s the evil corporations that are behind the troubles of all Americans.
3 boberinyetagain // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:50 am
Spoken to the tune of “Ebony and Ivory” I assume.
Ah the “harvest of plenty”, a beautiful vision indeed.
skimmed pick…the low fat version of picked I’ll bet
4 Shelly // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:01 am
He did also point out that our love of our military should force them to surrender.
5 diamond jim // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 am
If he was introduced to Christianity 20 years ago(as he says) by “Rev” Wright, what was he prior to that?
6 onlineanalyst // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:06 am
I’m still confused about the meaning of the term “black work ethic” in his church’s mission statement. By all that is logical, isn’t a work ethic color blind?
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8 RedPepper // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:33 am
As the “progressives” like to say, Barack Obama has “evolved”.
He has stopped listening to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright … ,
and moved on to his new “pastor” …
JonathanJohn Edwards !9 onlineanalyst // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:40 am
In anticipation of Obama’s speech today, this interchange between two posters at Hot Air yesterday has particular relevance:
He will do the “Wright is Moses and I am Joshua” defense that he is new school to Wright’s old school
William Amos on March 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Yep, dollar to a donut says that’s exactly what he’ll do. He could possibly make a very appealing case with it also.
This worries me a great deal, as the issues have become larger than Obama and larger than this one election. The issues are large (1)because Wright’s strain of anti-American, anti-capitalist, multi-culti victimological religion is more prevalent than we’d like, and indeed it may be spreading, and (2)because of its intimate relation to political ‘progressivism’, i.e., progressive Marxism. How the country reacts to Obama’s affiliation with Wright will set the tone of politics for decades to come. If Obama is not held accountable for using it when it was convenient for him, or if carries it into the White House with him, it will have been legitimatized within the mainstream of American politics from here on out. From my viewpoint, that would be about as ominous as mainstreaming the Communist party or mainstreaming the KKK.
petefrt on March 17, 2008 at 4:45 PM
The problem has never been Obama’s race. And it has only recently come to the fore that his church’s philosophy perpetuates racially underpinned economic grievance (as well as anti-American, Afro-centric loyalties). The problem is that Obama has used his campaigning bully pulpit to undermine our economic system, which offers opportunity for success for those ambitious and tenacious enough to seize the prize.
10 DrivebyMeteor // Mar 18, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. - Jean Giraudoux
( Similar quotes attributed to Groucho Marx )
11 Hawkeye // Mar 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Once again Scott, you’ve nailed it. Obama is just another “Slick Willy”. He uses smooth speeches to appeal to any audience, or to solve any problem of personal impropriety. Before a black crowd he will throw kudos at Pastor Wright. Before a white audience he will say that “Wright is Wrong”. The bottom line for Obama is to slip-slide into the Presidency so he can implement his Marxist ideology on the back of “whitey”.
12 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I was at the Y when he made the speech but it sounds like a little John Lennon music was called for in the background.
“♪♪♪ ♥♥ Imagine there’s no heaven ♪♪♥♥”
wv: Approves Louis-”Calypso????” My goodness Barack
13 Obama’s big speech: The CliffsNotes version…. at Amused Cynic // Mar 18, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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14 seriocomic22 // Mar 18, 2008 at 4:21 pm
New York Times - In a news conference following his dramatic speech on race relations today in Philadelphia, Senator Barack Obama accused President Bush today of sanctioning high tech operations against an adversary not equpped to counter them.
“America has always been a champion of fair play, but under this administration, we’re using first-world technology against a fourth-world adversary,” Obama said. “When I’m President, America will cease being a technological bully. I will order the Pentagon to level the battlefield by supplying al Qaeda with modern weapons and establishing officer training programs for their best people.
When our enemies are as well-trained and equipped as we are,” Obama continued, “the outcome of the struggle may be in doubt, but we’ll have gained the good will of the Arab Street.”
15 always right // Mar 18, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I just love to be lectured on how Obama is not the racist, Rev. Wright is not racist, the frenzied congregation are not the racists, but Ameica’s racist problem is me. If I don’t buy into Obama’s salvation for the ORIGINAL SIN of our country, then I am a divisive racist plus a ‘rich white man”.
Question is: Did I bring up the RACE question in the first place?
16 Darthmeister // Mar 18, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Obamababble.
The question is this: If after a 20 year association with America-hater and vile racist Reverend (sic) Wright messiah Obama isn’t able to change Wright’s mind about his own distortions of history, his own hate and forge a bridge of racial unity starting with his own pastor and church, then what hope does messiah Obama have in delivering on his promise to forge that bridge of racial unity and understanding among 300 million other Americans?
17 seriocomic22 // Mar 18, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I’m up to here with analysis of the speech. The two most salient points I’ve come across are these: 1) Obama says Wright was venting, expressing rage; in fact, he was instilling hatred, glorying in it, promoting it, and 2) Why did Obama allow his children to be exposed to Wright’s venom?
Shelby Steele has a magnificent column on Obama today at Wall wsj online. Definitely worth a look.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120579535818243439.html
18 mindknumbed kid // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:28 pm
No matter the color of my skin, I am a part of the human experience, my biggest problem is and will always be myself. I do believe that there are some that are seeking a way to a life without problems of any kind, it does not exist. If you are always looking at and for excuses why you are unable to do something, you will always see reasons that make it impossible.In America, if you are willing to work hard and refuse to accept defeat, you can do whatever you set your mind to do, no matter what color your skin may be.
19 da Bunny // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Obama never stood up to denounce Pastor “Wrong” prior to all of “Wrong’s” rantings being revealed…he condoned the hate-speech, and it has served him well in the black community to attend that “church.” Political expediency has been his priority all along.
Hawkeye # 11…it appears you have “nailed it,” as well. Great post!
20 gafisher // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Darth Re#16: “… what hope does messiah Obama have in delivering on his promise …”
None whatsoever. His hope is to become President; the promises are just stepping stones.
21 PanamaRed // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hallelulia! According to those who get paid for their learned opinions for their positions in whatever field they have chosen to till, Obama is the Messiah, here to lead the lost tribe of America to the land of milk and honey if only we listen to his clarion call to action!
Pardon me, but I have heard the same thing at a tent-revival meeting where your soul was saved for a few farthings from your pocket. Obama has one or more very gifted speech writers who can turn a phrase with the best of them. If Obama has to speak without a teleprompter, his talent turns to rust rather rapidly, but his handlers make sure the media never gets a chance (even if they would) to ask him sustantive questions.
I was told you are known by the company you keep, and Obama has kept company with Mr. Rezko, currently under indictment for fraud but did sell Obama his home, the Reverend Wright, who, if put in a white sheet and hood could lead a KKK rally as long as he just changed a few words and left out G*d-d**mn America since even the KKK were patriotic to a point, a wife who has only benefitted from the american way yet complains about having to repay the student loans that allowed her to secure a $300k/yr salary and is just now becoming “proud to be an American?” Spare me, but if Obama hasn’t been influenced by Rev, Wright, I don’t think I can say the same for his wife. Now Obama says he wasn’t influenced by nor did he agree with all his Pastor said, but then why did he attend for 20 years if he disapproved?
The mentioning of Obama’s middle name is verboten, yet Mitt Romney’s religion was dragged though the dirt, President Bush constantly referred to Hitler by the left, yet Obama, with a political record shorter than a commercial jingle is untouchable. Geraldine Ferraro in a moment of open honesty (rare in politics) said if Obama were white he wouldn’t be where he is today which promptly got her sacked by the Clinton campaign organization. The liberal democrats are racists, but they are proud of hiding it for so long except against republicans that their PC world is tumbling out of control. I only hope that people can finally see what that slick veneer of the DNC and democrat party has managed to hide for so long.
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