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I saw the excerpts of then Senator Obama’s 2007 speech on Hannity and agree with Jeff that this isn’t the post-racial Obama we heard during the 2004 DNC speech. His rhetoric is barely distinguishable from the likes of Al Sharpton.
Obama’s lavish praise of Reverend Wright also leads one to look upon his April 2008 statement about Wright with a willful suspension of disbelief. You might remember that Obama said of Wright, “the man I saw yesterday was not the man I knew for 20 years.”
While I agree that this speech may cast President Obama in a different light with some voters, I wonder if it will make much of a difference.
The reason I make this point is because we all know that Obama will use the words “47 percent” to Mitt Romney’s face during the debate tomorrow night. But can you see Romney bringing up this tape? I can’t.
Now I realize that this tape could have a life of its own without an interjection from Romney. It could help cast doubt against Obama and prompt people to give Romney a second look. But I am more inclined to think that if Obama loses next month it will because of his performance since taking office on January 20, 2009.
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DRed| 10.3.12 @ 1:06AM
Why would a 5 year old speech cause someone to see Obama in a new light? The speech was public. People reported about it in 2007. What am I missing here?
And let's look at his "lavish praise" of Reverend Wright in the speech, shall we?
"It was also there – at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago – that I met Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who took me on another journey and introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had. At Trinity and working in the South Side, I learned that when church folks come together, they can achieve extraordinary things."
Do you know what lavish means? What about praise? A much more accurate description would be "Obama mentioned Reverend Wright in his speech". There's absolutely nothing new in this speech. We did all this 4 years ago. You seriously expect some undecided voter is going to decide to vote for Romney because Obama said Reverend Wright introduced him to Jesus?
Jeff Dorsai| 10.3.12 @ 1:20AM
Well, since almost no Independents know who the Rev Wright is I think some education would be very helpful. Anyone that thinks that Wright introduced anyone to Jesus is seriously ignorant. Wright is a racist anti-Semite of the first order.
So yes, I think it will make a difference ... especially with Catholic democrats who don't like the HHS mandate ...
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 6:00AM
"...introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had."
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let's not forget that, for political expediency, ObaMao threw both Wright AND Christ under the bus...
JimH| 10.3.12 @ 7:39AM
Interesting phrase: "...introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had." I’m not familiar Wright’s religious teachings. Is Jesus regarded as the son of God or just a sort of early community organizer?
mike 3/505| 10.3.12 @ 8:25AM
Depends on whom is doing the regarding. I regard him as the Son of God.
RCV| 10.3.12 @ 1:11AM
If this is the best you guys can come up with, you're done. Toast.
Jeff Dorsai| 10.3.12 @ 1:21AM
the same could be said about the 47 percent tape ...
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 5:57AM
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. "
....or get elected to a better job
CJW| 10.3.12 @ 7:20AM
It does not bother Dems that Obama admitted on tape that Wright was his minister and counsellor for 20 years, but in the 2008 campaign lied that he did not really listen to the racist, anti semitic, anti American rants disguised as sermons.
When confronted with a lying candidate, the Dems always try to minimize by saying it is "old" news, or is this the best your have.
It proves in Obama's own words that he is a liar, and that he sacrificed his minister and counsellor of 20 years to win an election. That should tell you something about his character.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 10.3.12 @ 2:32AM
When you watch Rev. Wrights speech two minutes before he says "God Damn America" you will get the full context of what he's saying. I think its an oversimplification saying "God Damn America" because of the atrocities against American Indians and slavery of Black Americans as well as the internment of Japanese, German and Italian Americans during WWII. It's an oversimplification because there clearly is not nor has ever been or will ever be a perfect government on earth. At the same time I think those Americans who would have such a knee jerk reaction to what he is saying also need to realize that these things did happen. The American Indians were subject to a long campaign of ethnic cleansing, Africans were bought as slaves and forced work in the cotton fields, there were American citizens of Japanese, Italian and German decent who were forced into internment camps during the second World War. Those things cannot be refuted.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 10.3.12 @ 2:36AM
If God is angry at America I wouldn't think that it would be due to the sins of our fathers, but rather our own sins and the sins of our government especially on issues of foreign policy. Under Clinton we provided air support for Albanian terrorists (KLA) and helped them steal Kosovo from Orthodox Christian Serbs and then stood by as the KLA ethnically cleansed Serbs, Gypsies, Gorani and other non-Albanians from the region. In Iraq we secured the oil pipelines as the Iraqi Christian community (over a million) was largely driven from their homes by Islamists unleashed by our toppling of Saddam Hussein, in ten years the estimates of Iraqi casualties during the conflict and occupation are as high as a million. Presently in Syria we are supporting Sunni Islamists against the secular government of the Alawite Assad and have basically endangered the lives of all non-Sunni Syrians in the process (especially Shia Alawites and Sryian Christians who largely support the Syrian government).
Put in that context and especially regarding the misadventures of American foreign policy I would myself be inclined to say "God Damn America".
I don't say such things though. America is my home and the home of my children. I love America and I know that America isn't Washington DC or what takes place in capitol domes in states across the nation to America is the people and our Constitution which is our contract with the government a contract that the government seems to abuse at will.
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 5:56AM
the only thing missing from the speech was "I ain't in no ways tahred"...but maybe Shrillary had alread copywrited that line, who knows? how sad is it that in 21st century America, a BLACK presidential candidate puts on a fake accent to sound 'more black' because he's speaking to a BLACK audience...and the media doesn't dare call him out on it?
Booker T. Washington:
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. "
PCC| 10.3.12 @ 8:49AM
The telling point of the video is that it shows what a shallow phony is Mr. Obama. Will it change many likely voters' minds about whom they will vote for? Maybe not, but it will make it a lot easier for some people to vote against him, or maybe stay home.
BD57| 10.3.12 @ 9:26AM
Won't make a bit of difference. If anything, I suspect Obama gets more sympathy than condemnation.
It's hard to believe so many of us consider this man "likeable."
Ralphie| 10.3.12 @ 10:01AM
I don't think it will either.
Most people are not well informed because you never had to be to live in America. The system of government used to be such that a politician could not do much damage to how you lived everyday life.
A person of low moral character or aggressive tendencies could be checked, but that is no longer the case.
Adding to the doubtfulness is that the press never wanted to report what they knew about Obama. For most of America, all they know is what they read in the paper, or hear on the news.
There is an old movie called "Home Town Story" with a young Marylin Monroe and Alan Hale. It is about a disguntled politician who loses his seat to a local businessman's son. He returns home to take charge of the family paper, and before retiring, his uncle admonishes him to the seriousness of the responsibility he has because he hears people say, "All I know, I read in the paper." Of course the bitter ex-pol writes an untrue story about the businessman, who in the end saves his family from disaster. It is hokey, but they would never make such a movie today.
PCC| 10.3.12 @ 10:51AM
I'm so disappointed that neither candidate seems to understand nor is willing to level with the American people that we live in a global economy, that we must compete in that new environment, that neither the Chinese nor the Eastern Europeans nor the Brazilians, etc. are not devils but just people who are working hard to improve their lives as Americans have always been free to do, and that we need to buckle down to outperform them, including in our tax policies, regulatory policies, and in our work ethic.
I have no doubt that Americans can win the gold in that never-ending global contest, but it seems that there is a national denial, fueled by weak political leadership, that such a contest is even under way.
lsudolemite| 10.3.12 @ 3:07PM
What candidate is going to commit professional suicide by telling voters that those manufacturing jobs are never coming back because their wages and benefits cost too much? The American people think their high standard of living is a birthright. The fact that in a nation with 8% official unemployment we apparently still have jobs that Americans "just won't do" since it's easier to collect unemployment and SS disability speaks volumes about the depth of the problem.
JONVIL| 10.3.12 @ 4:08PM
What effect will this tape have?: Those that need to watch this tape won't.