The Obama speach...
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- mrdobolina0
Any preacher who is a millionaire is a fucking crook.
- dtan0
as much as i want obama over hilary, I still think mccain is going to win.
reasons:white + old man = president
- that's loser talk.mrdobolina
- na, that's realism talkdtan
- defeatist.mrdobolina
- anything can happen but Mccain is a tired old man running on ego.capsize
- I hope your wrong. We don't need any more war.dan5382
- TheBlueOne0
@DUKIE I'm not saying that it's not made public, but why the 24 hour coverage of Obama's preacher buddy but three minutes at 11pm about McCain's preacher buddy? Why is one "shocking" and the other" Well, that's just how good 'ole boys talk".
- read my comment above.dtan
- couldn't agree with you more...he should denounce him..perhaps if canidates didn't have to pander to the various religious factions in this country we would all be better offDUKIE0822
- religious groups in this country we would all be better off...I am very anti religion though--my grandpa was a preacherDUKIE0822
- dukie... yr a contrarian.capsize
- My half Irish blood makes me contrarian as well...TheBlueOne
- dskz0
Catholic whores? Yes please!
- hheh..eh..ahem.dskz
- I thought Catholic girls started way too late? That's what Billy Joel said...TheBlueOne
- emukid0
that was one of the most moving and sincere speeches i have seen/read in a long time. those who can't see past silly things like whether he actually wrote the speech (even though he did), i wonder if they were reading the same thing i was.
- skelly_b0
That speech wasn't about the preacher. Obama took the opportunity to diffuse a "scandal" by jumping head first into the race issue with grace. While McCain and Hillary sling shit and percentage points around, Obama is addressing the realities of the day and the history that brought us here.
- TheBlueOne0
Well, he used the preacher issue (a "gotcha" issue) as a springboard to talk about race in this country in a way that didn't pander to any "voting block". He spoke like an adult to other adults. No politician has spoken like that to the American people in a loooong time.
- emukid0
OH BUT HE DIDN'T WRITE THE SPEECH SO CLEARLY WHAT HE SAID IS MEANINGLESS. JUST LIKE MY EXISTENCE
- mrdobolina0
All of the anti-Obama talk could be leveled at any of the other candidates equally or worse, but Dukie doesn't seem to do it. Why is that?
- jasontroj0
Jaline, he actually did write most of this. Just sayin'
- dan53820
By the way what kind of change do any of these candidates actually offer? damn near nothin!
- he offered me bout a buck fittyemukid
- In dimes?TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
By the way Oprah goes to the same church....and America LOVES the Oprah...
- 12xu0
who is this Obama you speak of?
http://www.andreaharner.com/arch…- that is, without a doubt, one of the saddest, yet funniest interviews ever.exador1
- me20
i am inspired!
- kelpie0
any justice in this world then that man is the definition of 'presidential' if the word carries anything like the meaning and gravitas I think it does. He's great; if I was Americanski I'd be voting for him. If we (that is the rest of the world) get stuck with McCain over Obama, I'll be mightily unimpressed (and buying a concrete bunker).
- rainman0
From Andrew Sullivan a CONSERVATIVE blogger and journalist:
"Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history.
And it was a reflection of faith - deep, hopeful, transcending faith in the promises of the Gospels. And it was about America - its unique promise, its historic purpose, and our duty to take up the burden to perfect this union - today, in our time, in our way.
I have never felt more convinced that this man's candidacy - not this man, his candidacy - and what he can bring us to achieve - is an historic opportunity. This was a testing; and he did not merely pass it by uttering safe bromides. He addressed the intimate, painful love he has for an imperfect and sometimes embittered man. And how that love enables him to see that man's faults and pain as well as his promise. This is what my faith is about. It is what the Gospels are about. This is a candidate who does not merely speak as a Christian. He acts like a Christian.
Bill Clinton once said that everything bad in America can be rectified by what is good in America. He was right - and Obama takes that to a new level. And does it with the deepest darkest wound in this country's history.
I love this country. I don't remember loving it or hoping more from it than today."
- IndustryHitman0
you guys are cool with the maker of this room mis spelling of SPEECH? or is it the new S-peach...like the mac new IPeach, peaches w/ usb and firewire 800's...and a sick video card...they describe it as "Peachy".