Liveblogging Barry Obama’s Race Speech
Okay, so Ugarles told me and I quote “I’m telling you, after you listen to the speech you won’t hate black people anymore.”
I was also at huge Hillary planning session tonight where Obama’s speech was openly mocked with the phrase “I think the press has called it the greatest speech on race since Dr. King…no Abraham Lincoln…no Jesus Christ himself.” I not only didn’t hear the speech, but heard nothing about the speech, so I did what I do best in these situations…smile and nod. When I came home, I popped open youtube. I played the 2 minute 45 second speech and was surprised that it had no beginning…or real end…then I saw that it was just a clip of a longer 7 minute 11 second long speech. Okay. I clicked on that. And while this one had a beginning, still there was no end…again, I saw that really the 7 minute thing was just a clip from a longer still FORTY MINUTE speech. And so, here I go again…this time…I swear if this forty minute thing is just a clip from a four day long race symposium, I’m going to kick Barry’s ass with my shoe.
My impressions from the start: Obama loves talking constitutional history, doesn’t he? Can he get through a speech without quote the preamble? Can he? No. He can’t.
Blah blah black father from Kenya, white mother from Kansas…his white grandparents helped his white mother to raise him and he lived in Indonesia and went to Harvard…hold up…what makes him black exactly? I mean…how is black…really? At the very, umm…(most?) he’s a halfsie. Okay, we’ll put that to the side.
His candidacy has been described as affirmative action by liberlas wanting to buy racial reconciliation on the cheap? NO DEAL, white people. You can give Barry the Oval office if you want to, but I still want my forty acres.
Keep the mule. Throw in a new ipod. My nano just died and we’re very sad. And I think Dr. King had a dream that his little girl would never be without an ipod. It’s in there. Like toward the end. Okay, I’m focussing.
Oooh, he calls him his “former pastor.” Who’s his current pastor?
I do agree wholeheartedly with Barry about sitting in church and hearing my priest say something that I disagreed with. Of course, it was “Oh, God wants the Giants to win,” not “God wants you to set fire to America”…but you know Catholic priests always with the God is love.
Question: So Barry lives in we are one and we have brothers and sisters and cousins of all races America, why is he giving a speech on race instead of say, oh…economics? A FORTY minute speech. On television. Why him?
An aside: People laugh at SNL’s Obama guy, but after watching this speech, I think his impression is pretty dead on.
Black churches may seem “jarring to the untrained ear” : read: white people.
I can no more disown him than my white grandmother, who is scared of black men on the street. “My grandma was racist, my pastor is racist, America is racist. What?”
OH MAN…I’m not even halfway through this!!! OOh, he zings Geraldine Ferraro.
HEEEY, he’s telling white people what we talk about in the barbershops! Oh, he is so going to get it at the annual meeting next week…oops….I mean…hey, look over there.
I’ve passed the halfway mark! Is it just me, or when Obama said widening the chasm between the races, I was thinking about Larry Craig’s wide stance?
I’m not keeping any brothers. Obama can’t make me.
Hmm…will white men flock to John McCain regardless of his politics? Will they? Will you? Yeah, you…whitey!
Umm…the kids that don’t look like me ARE somebody else’s problem.
Did CNN air this in its entirety…did Hillary also get forty minutes to talk about glass ceilings and pant suits?
I’m so sleepy. He’s still talking. My resentment grows.
ooohh, white girl Ashley was poor for a year and had to eat relish and mustard sandwhiches…I ate boiled eggs and rice for ten years…where’s the anecdote about me?
Okay, he’s done. I would be on my feet and applauding wildly right about now.
Um…overall, I think the end of the speech was good. I like his attempt to be all ‘yeah, we could talk about who has a racist pastor or who has a racist Geraldine Ferraro,’ but there are more important issues. Hillary should jump on that part of the speech whenever asked about Obama’s speech. She should be like ‘I agree with him that we should talk about the issues of healthcare and who has more experience answering the phones at 3 a.m.’ I certainly don’t think this was a memorable speech about race, per se. And kids won’t be memorizing lines from it to recite at the Barack Obama assembly in chapel. I am curious why others thought it was so groundbreaking.
Oh, and so you don’t suffer as I did. Here is the speech. In its mindnumbing entirety.
Hmm…or am I doing this so that you can suffer as I did? muhahahaha
March 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Boy does he love hearing himself talk.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Having lived in Chicago for several years, I have a unique perspective of Obama and friends. Lol, they’ve been outed. They are exactly who they say they are. It was the ethos of the Harold Washington administration in the late 80’s… Now we’re going to get ours! By the time Sweet Harold choked to death on his Brown’s chicken in the back of his limo, well, people were ready for change. That’s why I voted for my first D, Richie Daley, and why he’s held the seat ever since. Never had a city fallen so far so fast, nor come back so quickly.
Thus, I wouldn’t mind an Obama administration at all. Oh there would be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, but it would be real instead of all the imagined hoohaw so often thrown about by the left. It would give us, as a nation, perspective, a Jimmy Carter redux, only in blackface and without shame. Four years hence, something heroic, Reaganesque, could rise from the ashes, because the populi would be ready for a dose of truth. Alas, we’ll get McCain, and more of the same. I can live with that too.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Such a rush, of foul, hot air emanating from such a skinny man.. Curious… Oh well, He didn’t , and will never apologize for the hateful, lunatic accusations by Wright, because he will never admit that reverse racism exists, and all the affirmative action savants that have bolstered him thus far will be the first ones burned on the altar of expediency if they are able to hand him what he wants. And Mrs. Madelyne Dunham (Typical White Person) who allegedly confessed fears of an agressive Black panhandler ONCE to him, will join them in the ashes of his cowardly, despicable “Pay no attention to the crazy, Whitey-hating pastor speech.” Were this a White man, running for President, and defending a Pastor that raved on how AIDS was engineered by Blacks to kill us all, and ranting about the US of KKKA, the outrage and shock from those very same supporters would deafen us all. Barry is the most pathetic excuse of unjustified self-righteousness that has ever stood before us in a Black Candidate, and that includes Jackson and Sharpton, who at least were men enough to take responsibility for their Black Supremacist positions. Obama admits to nothing, except that he lied about being present in the first place. Oh yeah, and his White Grandma that raised him (and paid for his first rate education) is a big, old racist. He’s trying to punk us all, and most of his supporters are too obtuse to admit it. As for me? Don’t p*ss down my leg and tell me it’s raining. Oh, FYI? Partaking in Organized Anti-American Activities is ILLEGAL for a sitting U.S. Senator… News you can use.