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Remember Jeremiah Wright? Well, he’s back

There is a video brought to light by The Daily Caller that would be explosive if it were possible for anything to be explosive when Barack Obama is involved. Explosive means that the media are all over it, running with it 24/7 and punishing to the fullest extent the politician involved (cf. Alan Jones). It’s not going to happen with Obama. But the video is useful if you would like to confirm things you already knew. To see the video you must go here or here.

Written by Steve Kates

October 3rd, 2012 at 12:03 pm

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What’s with the slo-mo?

Jarrah

3 Oct 12 at 12:36 pm
Nothing to see here … “Lame”

Nanuestalker

3 Oct 12 at 12:37 pm
I haven’t seen it yet (can’t where I’m at now), but how does it compare with the one that Breitbart teased us with and bombed a couple of months ago?

Alex Pundit

3 Oct 12 at 12:43 pm
The thing is, apart from Obama lying about his relationship with Wright, Obama is just using the well-worn tactic of racially divide and conquer with a heavy dose victimology. It’s rather disgusting to see what the “President” really believes which is simply that white people are evil, in his view. Certainly at odds to his “build bridges” between black and white rhetoric.

The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.

Obama begins his address with “a special shout out” to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama’s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color” became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”

By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 12:48 pm
Obama delivered the 2007 speech at a time when Rev. Wright was already a known quantity nationally. Wright’s statements had already become controversial. But he was not yet controversial enough for Obama to denounce him.

The Rev. Wright whom Obama praised had blamed the AIDS epidemic and the crack addiction epidemic on the federal government. The Rev. Wright whom Obama praised had already sermonized that “white folks greed runs a world in need.” Wright had trashed America and said that we had the terrorist atrocities of 9-11-01 coming.

Obama would denounce that Rev. Wright when their relationship threatened Obama’s run for the presidency. But as the newly released tape reveals, Obama’s denunciation of Wright was done out of pure political expediency. Obama had heard and internalized Wright’s race-based, anti-American teachings over the course of about two decades, and during that 2007 speech, Obama regurgitated those teachings before a receptive audience. He explicitly said that America is a racist country that treats black people as if they are not members of the national family. This is not the sort of rhetoric Barack Obama says to his larger audiences, and he delivered the speech in a cadence that he normally edges off his public remarks.

Simply put, Barack Obama was and still is Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most studious and successful disciple.

Them whites that run this country done it all wrong. I’m black so you know I’ll get it wright.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 12:50 pm
Alex, Obama is race-baiting, seriously race-baiting.

The timing of the speech was close to the time he gave the famous Philadelphia speech (after he was caught mouthing off about poor white people, guns & religion)

Token

3 Oct 12 at 12:52 pm
Obama’s media team goes DEFCON 1:

The tape would not be aired or posted online until 9PM EST on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program and on the Daily Caller website, but progressive journalists quickly began searching for the promised video.

BuzzFeed Politics posted several edited clips from the speech, apparently delivered at Hampton University in June of 2007. Others found a transcript of Obama’s prepared statements. These sources did not contain all of the quotes teased by Drudge, which suggest the remarks were off the cuff.

Several progressive journalists have reacted to the video’s social media buzz angrily or dismissively before learning the contents of the full 40-minute speech.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 1:00 pm
You can see the Hannity show where the Philadelphia speech is compared to the 2007 speech here.

Side by side you see that Obama was lying in the Philadelphia speech, he is directly contradicted by his own words in 2007.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 1:07 pm
You hear how Obama puts on the same cadence that Biden used in the “Chains” race-baiting speech.

Gore & Hillary Clinton have also been caught using the cadence when making racially explosive statements to black audiences.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 1:10 pm
Anyone who thinks obongo isn’t a seriously obsessive racist idiot has rocks in their head.

The guy has framed his entire pathetic, pointless existence through the prism of race – the most important definer of identity and lived* experience.

He is an utterly vile, one dimensional fraud.

*Subject to the appearance of convenient ‘composites’.

Rabz

3 Oct 12 at 1:13 pm
Obama team scramble to cover for Biden’s epic gaffe:

US vice president Joe Biden has inadvertently tossed raw meat to Republican rivals a day before the first presidential debate, saying the middle class has been “buried” during the past four years…

The White House quickly sought to douse the flames, saying Mr Biden was talking about how president George W Bush’s policies continued to hurt the middle class deep into Mr Obama’s term.

Biden gaffe on eve of presidential debate.

C.L.

3 Oct 12 at 1:23 pm
Poor Mitt–if only he were Latino, he’d have the election sown up. White guys just can’t catch a break.

Rex

3 Oct 12 at 7:09 pm
Rex, maybe this is why they were so eager to throw mud at Herman Cain. I’m not suggesting he was ready to be President – on reflection I think he wasn’t – but he had the image of a rich, self-made black man who owed nothing to affirmative action, and he made Obama look very, very, very bad.

perturbed

3 Oct 12 at 9:26 pm
This gotcha is so lame, if it was a horse it would be shot. A speech given during the previous campaign which was reported at the time by AAP and paid little further attention because it was not particularly newsworthy. A desperate flail by a desperate GOP, on its way to getting routed.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 10:21 pm
M9nty, I know you are too lazy to Watch the clips as that thesis is debunked in the interview.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 10:35 pm
LOL the video has been on YouTube since 2008. The GOP is flailing like the Black Knight with his arms and legs chopped off.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 10:45 pm
Actually you’re wrong, monty. An heavily edited version has been on youtube. The edited bits being released today.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 10:49 pm
One of the points raised on Hannity’s show. There is another critical point, but I’m not going to reveal it until M0nty states the fallacy and makes a bigger d&ck of himself.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 10:53 pm
Actually you’re wrong, monty. An heavily edited version has been on youtube. The edited bits being released today.

That reminds me, what did fat boy say? Oh yea

The GOP is flailing like the Black Knight with his arms and legs chopped off.

Every time he shows up here, he leaves with a piece of flesh missing, although it will still take time to turn himself into a skinny, former fat boy.

Poor Mitt–if only he were Latino, he’d have the election sown up. White guys just can’t catch a break.

Rexinald, what a pathetic person you are. Have you no self pride? None?

JC

3 Oct 12 at 11:03 pm
The press reported on the speech at the time, Gab. Journalists attended, heard every word, and reported the newsworthy elements. What is new about it now? Nothing at all.

This is merely a shameless attempt to influence the first presidential debate by pretending that this is in any way equivalent to the 47% furore. It is pitiful in its obviousness. It amounts to yelling: “But he’s BLACK!”

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:03 pm
No they did not M0nty. So your trying to race bait as well?

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:05 pm
The press reported on the speech at the time

LOL.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:06 pm
Next, monty will try to convince me that the grand final is this weekend.

dover_beach

3 Oct 12 at 11:10 pm
Do you deny that AAP reported on the speech, Token? The link is right there.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:10 pm
Do you deny that Tucker Carlson himself reported on the speech at the time on NBC, Token? The Daily Caller repeats this fact today.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:11 pm
Boy. That one report sure wins the case for mOnty.

wreckage

3 Oct 12 at 11:12 pm
Do you deny, Token, that the shout out to Wright was aired on ABC News and online at Politico, as reported elsewhere today?

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:14 pm
The two [Carlson & Doocy) also discussed the coverage of that speech at the time it was given, remarking that the media had not included that ad-libbed commentary Obama added to his talk.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-on-obamas-2007-speech-obama-put-on-false-accent-to-pander-to-black-audience/

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:14 pm
Do you deny, Token, that Fox News aired the speech at the time, as CNN has pointed out today, and Hannity himself referred to Obama’s shout out to Wright in that very same speech?

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:18 pm
Shorter monty:

Criticising Obama for being connected to this nutjob is RACIST!

Wright is worse than David Duke. Get a grip, monty.

.

3 Oct 12 at 11:18 pm
Obama is no longer connected to that nutjob, Dot. That whole debate blew over four years ago. It is only naked desperation that leads the right to try to exhume it now.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:22 pm
Good speech, right Fat boy? You like it.

JC

3 Oct 12 at 11:23 pm
Obama is no longer connected to that nutjob, Dot.

Ahahahahahaha.

“I could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I could disown my own grandmother.”

–Barack Obama

C.L.

3 Oct 12 at 11:24 pm
Did you miss the part that says “Never before seen full speech” on purpose?

So is it racist to point out Obama lied to the audience about the Bush Admins response to Hurricane Katrina?

Is it racist to point out the lies in Obama’s Philadelphia speech?

Your vigour in defence only underlines your pathetic desperation M0nty to indulge in some Lefty race baiting.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:24 pm
Obama is no longer connected to that nutjob, Dot.

True, after attending Wright’s church for 20 years, having Wright marry him, baptise his kids, use his words as a title for his book, Obama threw him under the bus during the election campaign.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:25 pm
I prefer the R-Money 47% speech. That was a doozy. I’m sure there will be plenty of focus on it in the debate.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:25 pm
“But he’s BLACK!”

How right Harry Reid was:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized today for a remark he made in 2008, calling Barack Obama a “light-skinned” African-American who didn’t have a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

C.L.

3 Oct 12 at 11:26 pm
Obama is no longer connected to that nutjob, Dot.

Yay. So the twenty or so years of connection, in which he and his wife confided and sought “that nutjob’s” judgement and wisdom, can be thrown under the bus, along with Rev. Wright himself. Talk about desperation.

dover_beach

3 Oct 12 at 11:26 pm
monty

Please reconcile these two statements

Obama is no longer connected to that nutjob, Dot.

m0nty

I could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I could disown my own grandmother.

–Barack Obama

I’m a bit confused.

.

3 Oct 12 at 11:27 pm
Did you miss the part that says “Never before seen full speech” on purpose?

Do you think the journalists who were there didn’t see the full speech? How much of an idiot are you, Token?

No matter how much you try, this is not a gotcha and it will not dilute the impact of the 47% gaffe one iota.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:27 pm
“The guy has framed his entire pathetic, pointless existence through the prism of race – the most important definer of identity and lived* experience.

He is an utterly vile, one dimensional fraud.”

I agree Rabz, he’s been dipped in racism and prejudice right up to his lugs and rancourous Michelle is every bit as evil.

Why Americans did this to themselves will ever by a mystery to me. They “felt guilty” we’re told.

The first and most active participants in the African slave trade were always Africans trading less fortunate Africans to Muslim buyers up north of them.

That Americans allowed themselves to be conned into believing otherwise, and that they owed such a debt, demonstrates their wilful ignorance and intellectual laziness. They asked for everything they’ve copped in the past four years and evidently about 45% of ‘em are now bending over begging for more. Suicidal stupidity.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

3 Oct 12 at 11:27 pm
C’mon Mick, he did say the seas would lower and the planet would heal now that the US had a black president.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:30 pm
So you’ve finally read the article & realised you’ve managed to fill out the forum with evidence of how stupid & dodgy you are.

Great work M0nty. Come back again soon. This was fun.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:30 pm
No matter how much you try, this is not a gotcha and it will not dilute the impact of the 47% gaffe one iota.

You believe university graduates should pay tax rates on the tax thresholds that existed back in 1996, plus HECS, whilst at the same time bragging about minimising your own tax. You misanthrope. You fail to understand that inflation is a stealth tax.

You crap on about such a “gaffe” because you wish to join a tax farming mob.

.

3 Oct 12 at 11:31 pm
Do you think the journalists who were there didn’t see the full speech? How much of an idiot are you, Token?

the voters dudn’t see the whole thing, but more importantly what was said, you imbecile fat boy.

No matter how much you try, this is not a gotcha and it will not dilute the impact of the 47% gaffe one iota.

Lol

Stay off the Krispy Kreams

JC

3 Oct 12 at 11:33 pm
Please reconcile these two statements

They were reconciled in the same speech when he said these words:

I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They weren’t simply a religious leader’s effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.

As such, Reverend Wright’s comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems – two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:34 pm
Oh, you are trying to brazen your way out. Yes they saw the speech and tone of the Journo-Listers linked to the draft if the speech, not the actual speech to cover it up. Page 3 of the link has a snip of direct race baiting.

Please keep going M0nty trying to cover the events up. You are helping me flesh out this story of race baiting & how Washington Insiders tried to cover it up.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:34 pm
The media reported on the transcript of the speech, monty. The transcript did not include obama’s ad-libbed incendiary statements.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:35 pm
Right Token, so you have no riposte at all to the facts that the speech was fully covered by centre, left and right media outlets at the time, and you have thus fully conceded the argument. Gotcha.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:37 pm
So Obama reconciled them by being openly duplicitous and waffling.

Okay.

.

3 Oct 12 at 11:40 pm
The media reported on the transcript of the speech, monty. The transcript did not include obama’s ad-libbed incendiary statements.

Fox showed video from the speech at the time, Gab. They had access to the footage. They worked it for as much mileage as they thought it warranted at the time. There is no gotcha.

m0nty

3 Oct 12 at 11:42 pm
a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel

How you doin, Bibi!

dover_beach

3 Oct 12 at 11:42 pm
Oh, you are trying to brazen your way out.

Don’t get in his way though. If he falls on you, he’ll kill you.

JC

3 Oct 12 at 11:42 pm
Transcript:

“America is going to survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, 15 years ago, thousands of years ago,”

Actual speech:

“America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 years ago.”

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:45 pm
He said his golf handicap would get lower Gab, his golf handicap.

He mis-spoke*, and got heard out of context.

* For four years now I wanted to write that word in something pertinent. Now I’ve done it. I love how it was invented (I think) for the sole reason to protect Hillary from her lies about bullets whizzing around her unfortunate looking head in 55 Days at Peking or somewhere.

Everyone accepts it is a euphemism for “lie”, which is okay now ‘cos we don’t call ‘em “lies” any more.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

3 Oct 12 at 11:46 pm
That’s just racist, Mick, or something.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:48 pm
Ticket noted only 9 of the 40 minutes was reported at the time, and only the edited transcript was released.

I can see your intent, teach is another lesson on what a dishonest person you are & why the lefty politics you embrace is crippled by dishonesty.

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:49 pm
~~Ticket~~ Tucker

Token

3 Oct 12 at 11:50 pm
This is a link to the AP report:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-06-05-2605804428_x.htm

It mentions the shout out to Jeremiah Wright, it talks about his cadence, it talks about the lack of Federal support for Katrina (which was an ad-lib). Obama is Black, he changes his cadence depending on his audience as most politicians in the US do (Santorum, Clinton (both), Bush etc…)

Yes he riles up the black crowd, lets also put this in context vs the 47% speech of Romney’s. This was in front of 8000 people. This was not a “private” speech, this was not behind closed doors. Romney’s was not meant to be seen by anyone outside of that room.

And one last thing, the fact that this didn’t get more play in 2007 was very likely due to John McCain not wanting to define Obama as a Black democratic presidential candidate, but just a democratic presidential candidate. That may be a positive or a negative statement on McCain’s character, I think it speaks to his integrity.

WadeJ

3 Oct 12 at 11:52 pm
C’mon Mick, he did say the seas would lower and the planet would heal now that the US had a black president.

But he has succeeded!

Temperature is steady. Sea level rise has abated. Only one hurricane has touched continental USA since his inauguration. Tornadoes are below average frequency.

US greenhouse emissions are significantly down (but don’t tell anyone that it’s due to shale gas).

Lazlo

3 Oct 12 at 11:52 pm
Fat boy says… But it was outed back in 07.

the truth

Tucker noted only 9 of the 40 minutes was reported at the time, and only the edited transcript was released.

LOL.. you eggnog monst.

JC

3 Oct 12 at 11:53 pm
You’d have more chance of getting a goat to crochet a blanket than get through to monty, Token.

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:53 pm
And one last thing, the fact that this didn’t get more play in 2007…

WadeJ throws monty under the bus.

dover_beach

3 Oct 12 at 11:55 pm
But he has succeeded!

Temperature is steady. Sea level rise has abated. Only one hurricane has touched continental USA since his inauguration. Tornadoes are below average frequency.

US greenhouse emissions are significantly down (but don’t tell anyone that it’s due to shale gas).

What are you, his campaign manager now, Lazlo?

Gab

3 Oct 12 at 11:58 pm
“We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, 15 years ago, thousands of years ago”

What happened thousands of years ago?

Jarrah

4 Oct 12 at 12:00 am
WadeJ points out the lies that you lot cling to. Yes, the Katrina stuff was reported. Yes, the cadence was reported. Yes, Token can not deny that the media covered it at the time, as they all had AP wire feeds and Fox among others had access to the raw video.

Apparently even Fox didn’t deem it newsworthy enough to run the Katrina stuff. You know why? Because Obama nailed it, and it was embarrassing to Bush and by extension McCain. Now they pretend that it’s super secret material, never before seen… except by 8000 people at a rally open to the media and reported on by journalists for national media outlets. What a joke.

(AP of course, not AAP as I said earlier.)

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 12:11 am
“Now they pretend that it’s super secret material, never before seen… except by 8000 people at a rally open to the media and reported on by journalists for national media outlets.”

And Steve Kates will undoubtedly blame the lack of media interest in a 4-year-old story on the vast left-wing conspiracy.

Jarrah

4 Oct 12 at 12:23 am
Apparently even Fox didn’t deem it newsworthy enough to run the Katrina stuff. You know why? Because Obama nailed it, and it was embarrassing to Bush and by extension McCain. Now they pretend that it’s super secret material, never before seen… except by 8000 people at a rally open to the media and reported on by journalists for national media outlets. What a joke.

lol

m0nty perennial fuckwit.

45 minute speech with only 9 minutes made public and the only the prepared remarks reported on.

Which left a whole lot of poisonous divisive race baiting demagoguery left unreported.

Obumma is a disgusting race baiter no different to Al Sharpton.

He waxed lyrical about his hero pastor Rev Wright

And all that quite apart from the laughably faux southern accent.

JamesK

4 Oct 12 at 12:42 am
Stop lying, JamesK. AP reported on the off-script stuff and the Wright shout out. You only have lies.

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 12:49 am
AP reported on the off-script stuff and the Wright shout out.

Then shows us a link.

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 12:51 am
It has been linked twice already Gab. Don’t be dense.

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 12:51 am
No need to be rude, monty. I haven’t seen your links.

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 12:52 am
Which one monty? Why so cryptic?

.

4 Oct 12 at 12:53 am
Once by me at 10:28 and once by WadeJ at 11:52.

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 12:53 am
The exact line they reference Wright is

He introduced his own pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United as “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.” He credited Wright with introducing him to Christ,

WadeJ

4 Oct 12 at 1:03 am
The AP report doesn’t mention what Obama said about Katrina in any of the detail (lies) Obama goes into when he ad-libs. It just says:

The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.

“This administration was colorblind in its incompetence,” Obama said at a conference of black clergy, “but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.

“All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see,” he said.

Obama gave a litany of lies about the funding. Of course that didn’t get reported then.

So you fail there. The article is rather scant on detail. But then as has been pointed out by others, including your mate Tucker, the media reported from the transcript.

The one comment (and only) at the end of the report was prescient:

Obama get off of my computor with your comments. American Presidents SHOULD be COLOR BLIND!!!! Because a President should represent ALL races and color equal. I hope you will never be President, because we will be in trouble!!!

How true.

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 1:06 am
One article, lined twice, that’s you massive coverage? Please.

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 1:08 am
linked, not lined.

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 1:09 am
Fox had the footage. You would have to assume massive incompetence on their part if no one from the network watched it in full to figure out what was different from the transcript. In reality, multiple people from Fox would have watched it to provide research for comments from the likes of Hannity. Hannity himself would have watched the relevant off-script comments in preparation for commenting about them on Fox.

There is no gotcha here. Only a fabricated lie of secrecy manufactured by Fox. It is utterly laughable.

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 6:16 am
You’d have more chance of getting a goat to crochet a blanket than get through to monty, Token.

As I noted earlier Gab, the more that M0nty played his shonky media tricks, the more of the story was fleshed out.

Everyone condemned as racist Harry Reid for his comments about Obama taking on an affected cadence when he wanted. Reid deserves an apology from Obama and the media as from the video it is clear Obama does that.

This was in front of 8000 people. This was not a “private” speech, this was not behind closed doors. Romney’s was not meant to be seen by anyone outside of that room.

The nub of this issue is what you are trying to dismiss – Obama was stirring generating hate for political advantage.

Poisoning the mind of 8000 people is disgusting. If one person in that audience has committed an act of racial violence, Obama is directly responsible.

Token

4 Oct 12 at 7:56 am
Obama in 2002: Wealthy embrace nonviolence because ‘they want to make sure folks don’t take their stuff’

In a video that surfaced on YouTube Wednesday morning, a young state Sen. Barack Obama is seen explaining from a church pulpit that the principle of nonviolent resistance for social change applies more readily to the wealthy than to Americans in lower social classes.

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed,” Obama says in the video, shot on Jan. 21, 2002 at the University of Chicago, “but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure folks don’t take their stuff.”

January 21 was Martin Luther King Jr. Day that year.

JamesK

4 Oct 12 at 8:16 am
Stop lying, JamesK. AP reported on the off-script stuff

Reference please m0nty, you Dem talking point repeating inanity

JamesK

4 Oct 12 at 8:18 am
Top Ten Reasons the 2007 Obama Video Matters in 2012

1. The video released by the Daily Caller last night does include footage the media never broadcast or reported on

2. Now we know the media and the Obama campaign “selectively edited” the video in 2007 in order to cover up Obama’s divisive racial rhetoric.

3. Past is prologue. Always.

4. Obama grew up in Hawaii and Chicago, so where in the world does that hilariously fake southern accent come from?

5. In order to stoke racial division and resentment, Obama lied to his audience.

6. Obama is prone to believing and spreading dishonest and wildly false conspiracy theories.

7. At the 19:20 mark we learn that the Christian Obama doesn’t know the Lord’s Prayer.

8. Obama’s “us vs. them” rhetoric and beliefs extends to his governance.

At the 28:50 mark, Obama talks extensively about the importance of minority-owned businesses and supporting your own. He then proposes using the Small Business Administration specifically to aid minorities.

9. At the 20:10 mark, Obama laments the social injustice that created 37 million Americans living in poverty and pledges to fight that injustice as president.

After four years of Obamanomics, we now have 10 million more Americans living in poverty.

10. When Obama gave this speech, the Reverend Wright scandal had yet to break.

Token

4 Oct 12 at 8:39 am
The video has only been up for 12 hours or so, but already you’re being told some things about it by the smart people who bring you the news:

“B-b-but… this isn’t news! We reported this at the time! It’s been on YouTube for years! That [CENSORED] [CENSORED] Tucker Carlson even covered it on his MSNBC show!” [he's quoting monty?]

Yes, there were news stories about Obama’s prepared remarks, but for some reason nobody thought his deviations from those prepared remarks were newsworthy. And yes, there were clips on YouTube, but until last night, the complete 36-minute video had not been made public. Now it has been, so people can watch it and decide for themselves what to take away from it.

It’s funny how quickly liberals and the media (PTR) can do a heel-turn:

OUT: “You selectively edited that!”
IN: “You put back in all the parts we selectively edited out!”

You know, I followed the ’08 presidential race pretty damn closely, and this is the first I’m hearing about that speech. I’m willing to bet that all the people insisting it isn’t news hadn’t heard of it either, or hadn’t seen the whole thing. But they’ve decided you don’t need to know about it. Romney’s dog 30 years ago is important, but Obama’s racebaiting speech 5 years ago isn’t.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/03/quoting-obama-is-racist/

A postscript:

I imagine the hardest part of journalism is the running-in-circles screaming “THAT’S NOT NEWS!! THAT’S NOT NEWS!!” part.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 3, 2012

Gab

4 Oct 12 at 8:44 am
The Philadelphia speech which once was a triumph for Obama (& helped him get the Demo nom in 08) is looking really shabby with the “context” of the ’07 race-baiting speech:

Obama famously pronounced that the radical Rev. Jeremiah “God damn America” Wright that emerged in the 2008 campaign “is not the Rev. Wright that I know,” but the new videos suggest that Obama knows exactly who Rev. Wright is, and has no problem with it. Charles Kesler points out in I Am the Change that a close reading of Obama’s much-praised Philadelphia speech that supposedly threw Wright under the bus shows that Obama didn’t really express a fundamental disagreement with Wright at all

The dog that didn’t bark on March 18, 2008, was that the crucial words “all men are created equal” do not appear in Obama’s carefully composed speech. And so that “already classic address,” as James Kloppenberg calls it, on a topic that Obama declared he’d been thinking about for twenty years, constitutes a very different kind of argument, with a very different view of America, than one finds in, say, Martin Luther King’s great speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. Obama invokes neither Jefferson nor Lincoln. He refers to the Constitution briefly, noting its “ideal of equal citizenship” and that it “promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.” But he doesn’t mention the conclusion that he had announced in his book, namely, that the Declaration’s and the Constitution’s “people” did not include blacks, and especially not black slaves.

In short, Obama regards the original intention of both the Declaration and the Constitution to be racist and even pro-slavery. But he refrains from making the point explicit because it would confirm the Reverend Wright’s fundamental charge, that the United States is a racist country. And the point of the speech in Philadelphia, at the National Constitution Center, close by Independence Hall, the scene of the great events of 1776 and 1787, was not merely to repeat his condemnation of Wright’s remarks “in unequivocal terms” but to put the whole controversy behind him, without dwelling on his fundamental agreement with Wright’s interpretation of American principles.

Token

4 Oct 12 at 8:56 am
Obama slandered America as racist using dishonest claims about the response to Hurricane Katrina

The Daily Caller has obtained and posted video (video below) of a 2007 speech by Barack Obama in Hampton, Virginia. Speaking to an audience of black ministers, and using a black dialect only marginally more authentic than Joe Biden’s, Obama claims that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism. As the Daily Caller says, “the effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.”

Obama’s factual claims about alleged shortchanging of Hurricane Katrina are false…

So here’s what Barack “No Red America, No Blue America” Obama, the great racial unifier, did at Hampton. He charged the U.S. government with racism based on false claims about the response to Hurricane Katrina.

And Obama did not limit his accusation of racism to the federal government. For Obama, white racism is pervasive; it is, to use the central metaphor of the Hampton speech, a bullet that blacks carry in their body from the time of birth. This “bullet” of racism, says Obama, explains the 1992 riots in Los Angeles.

Having thus slandered the U.S. government and white America, Obama demanded the transfer of money to the inner cities..

n addition, Obama insisted, we need a series of new federal programs, including one to teach punctuality to the poor..

Here at last, we find some evidence of the racism Obama claims pervades America — his own claim that blacks can’t be expected to show up for work on time without a special program from the federal government.

Barack Obama was already a candidate for president when he delivered the Hampton speech, so this isn’t ancient history. Rather, the speech is a sincere (though factually dishonest) statement of how he really sees America and what he believes must be done in response. In essence, America needs to redistribute wealth from whites to blacks in order to offset, as best it can, the nation’s basic racism.

As Stanley Kurtz has shown in his book Spreading The Wealth: How Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities, the redistribution of wealth from middle class suburbs to the inner city constitutes the core of Obama’s domestic agenda for his second term. The sincere outrage Obama expressed in Hampton should leave little doubt that Obama will aggressively pursue that agenda through executive orders, regulations, and coercion if America makes the grave mistake of re-electing him.

JamesK

4 Oct 12 at 9:19 am
JamesK, the story has been linked twice and I gave the references to Gab as well. You are dense.

m0nty

4 Oct 12 at 10:42 am

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