The speech coincides with the full assault the Clinton camp warned us about. Meanwhile, the DU lovelies are claiming it’ll be on par with JFK’s speech on religion (Minor note they refuse to grasp: there’s a difference between being born into a faith and choosing a specific pastor to be your close, spiritual mentor for 20-plus years).

If you disagree with His greatness, you are part of the “darkness” and “fear” that plague America. As Reverend Wright would likely say, “You’re riding America dirty!” What? “It’s in the Bible!”

… and given how badly Mr. Hopey and his Unity Pony have already polluted the discourse on racism already, I have little hope for anything but more of the same.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

the racism stuff gets worse not better. If Obama were clearly going to be the nominee, I think he’d probably give a fantastic speech on race. I mean that sincerely.

But he’s had a bad couple of weeks and is down in Pennsylvania, he’s going to want to try to stem the bleeding and that means more of what has worked so far, which is going negative while claiming to go positive. Now, I doubt he overtly smears Clinton, my guess is he’ll say something that sounds positive, but that sends up the call to arms for his supporters so they can do the actual smearing.

The real question, IMO, is how big a backlash is brewing against Senator Hopey and whether it hits him hard enough to deny him the nomination or simply swamps him for the GE. Maybe it’s the buddhist in me, but I don’t think you can pump as much negative divisiveness in the world as the Unity Campaign has without having karma come back and bite you in the ass.

now that it’s closer to the general he has one priority still—reassure whites he’s not like “those people”.

… go quietly.

Though it’s a good narrative, this disturbing pattern of using people up and throwing them away. Remember the MySpace kid?

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

they can’t go all-out on him without alienating some parishioners, just as he can’t afford to alienate some voters.

UCC is an overwhelmingly white church from what i understand and not part of traditional black church networks/org—it’s not at all like AME or Baptist, etc. That makes the UCC unlikely to attack, but other pastors from other branches are totally free to attack.

Obama got tons of heat bef SC bec he hadn’t at all ever been any part of black church stuff or civil rights stuff, etc—he had to woo many Black Church groups/leaders, and do the Gospel “exgay” tour, etc…

We’ll see if Sharpton speaks up—he was very vocal about Obama last year.

“… The most amazing thing about the 2008 presidential race is not that a black man is a bona fide contender, but the lukewarm response he has received from the luminaries whose sacrifices made this run possible. With the notable exception of Joseph Lowry, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference veteran who gave a stirring invocation at Obama’s Atlanta campaign rally in June and subsequently endorsed him, Obama has been running without much support from many of the most recognizable black figures in the political landscape. …” — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…

Luminaries include many religious figures who came on board late—like Sharpton.

“… Some black churchgoers in Greater Cleveland heard two messages Sunday: One from their pastor and one from Obama asking for their support in the March 4 primary.

In a letter read during services, the Democratic presiden tial candidate said his Christian faith is important to him and leads him to believe “ordinary people, with the grace of an awesome God, can do extraordinary things.”

The appeal to black churches was a strategy the campaign started in South Carolina. Officials from the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, declined to comment on the letter.

Also in South Carolina, Obama assured members of the Redemption World Outreach Center, a largely white evangelical megachurch in Greenville, “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with expressing faith in the public square, and I think there’s nothing wrong with public servants expressing religiously rooted values.”

Last June, in a talk at the General Synod in Hartford, Conn., celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UCC, Obama urged church members to continue to be “troublemakers” for progressive causes such as civil rights. …” — http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindea…

not anymore i guess.

“… Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama. That figure includes 44% of Democrats. Just 11% of voters say they are more likely to vote for Obama because of Wright’s comments.

However, among African-Americans, 29% said Wright’s comments made them more likely to support Obama. Just 18% said the opposite while 50% said Wright’s comments would have no impact. …” — http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c…

this is why the speech.

this really isn’t about race—the problem obama has and the damage control he’s doing is because of him and lies and judgment and influences and actions, but not bec of race—

religion, patriotism, race—-all part of this on the side, but this is 100 percent about obama himself.

i can’t believe he’s going to be able to successfully spin this as just a race thing!!! if it works, it’ll be masterly.

millions were shocked by wright—not bec he’s a fiery black preacher (we’ve seen that before and worse from white and black preachers) but because of the unbelievably jarring and explicit contrast and dissonance — that Obama’s longtime mentor would seem to be the exact and polar total opposite of Obama’s own carefully-crafted messages and entire reason for running. And it’s that Obama knew it was a prob, still kept him in the campaign until the videos came out, but like w/rezko, lies about the connection and guy.

It really comes off as just another hypocrisy exposing scandal—and the whole country is already connecting politicians w/hypocrites.

the more likely it is that they’re guilty of the exact opposite— and hiding stuff related to it—family values rightwingers with prostitutes, antigay pols are gay, clean-image pols always are really dirty, …

we’re seeing this that way, i think, no? we all believe it now after all the revelations.

the contrasts/opposites all feed into crashing the whole campaign—and the campaign had to know it—did they think they could skate thru the whole way?

“So here and now is the time for us to fight and I suggest everyone who supports Obama and/or the Democratic party do these three things as the speech is ending (and again, unless something goes horribly wrong we know it will be wonderful):

Send an email to everyone in your address book and tell them that you saw/read/listened to the speech (whatever is correct) and that it is wonderful (as long as you believe it was so) and that they should watch it on their own WITHOUT listening to the spin artists out there.
When you get hold of the Youtube piece do the same.
Step away from Kos and go to the comment and message boards on the national, local papers online and tell them that you liked the speech, are proud of Obama and that together — one million strong — we are going to change this country. Send out an LTE as well but first act online.
and perhaps as a 4th — donate to Obama after the speech — this is the right time to create another spike in the donations (but this is less important than the first 3)

If you doubt the third point is important look at the comments on sites such as Politico, Chicago Tribune etc.
the right wing Rush bots are all over them.

BUT REMEMBER — there are more of us — get out there and push back EVERYWHERE.

EVERY POLL, ON EVERY SITE saying — this speech is good enough….if you believe it is (and I am sure it will be) ACT — SUPPORT OUR MAN — FIGHT”.

Talk about lemming like followers..
They haven’t even heard the thing yey, but they know the Messiah is correct and has dazzled.
Joebasic
Recovered DU member

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I’ll sit down while I’m waiting.

while I wait for critical thinking skills to penetrate the skulls of the OFB. You know, I think I’ll sit down, too.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.