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 Thursday March 20, 2008 02:20 by Predator of Xenu
 Obama has it seems made a wonderful speech which is being hailed as the bravest bit of rhetoric by a US presidential contender in generations by some and the most stirring bit of oratory since the Gettsyberg address by others. Here's a few vid links to keep the type of readership who prefer watching telly to reading happy. First off the Obama speech - http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzgVy6Mj2Bw this has also been embeddedfor you, all you need to is click on the picture. If you're not up for watching the whole 9.5 minutes in which he quotes the Gettysberg, the Declaration as well as referring to his own ethnically or racially mixed origins makes novel use of the motto de pluribus unum (= from many one) which of course appears on dollar bills & is a motto of the USA. If you don't want to watch the speech then you can read it in its entirety at the appended link below this article. c/f http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum Now why did he make this speech, the fact he's only half honkey white isn't important, is it? Easy - videos of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright doing his stuff at his church of the "Trinity United Church of Christ" making what some think are "controversial remarks" started doing the rounds. the church is the largest congregation of the United Church of Christ, with 10,000 members It is also one of the largest African-American churches in Chicago, Illinois the state of which Obama is junior senator. Rev. Wright served the community "since March 1, 1972. Within a matter of months after his appointment he demonstrated an understanding and deep commitment to help TUCC achieve its motto and vision. The motto, "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian", was a phrase coined by his predecessor, the Reverend Dr. Reuben Sheares, and was officially adopted by the congregation shortly after Pastor Wright began his ministry." Jeremiah Wright has now retired from pastorship from the religious community & is to be replaced by the Rev. Otis Moss III. Rev. Wright fulfilling his mission to be "unashamedly Black" has said such things like the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more people than the died in the World Trade Centre event on the 11th of September. Which is perfectly true and ought not be controversial. According to the Japanese Government the nuclear weapon Little Boy which was dropped on Hiroshima On Monday August 6, 1945, by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000-140,000 and the bomb which followed without warning on Nagasaki killed 60,000 - 80,000. That brings direct deaths at lowest estimates to 150,000 where as the 911 bombings killed less than 4,000. Furthermore the Rev. Wright has said that the Roman Empire was ruled by rich slave owning Italians to whom the poor of Palestine such as Jesus were little more than blacks. This also is perfectly true, we know ( I do) from the writings of both Seneca the Elder who lived from 54 BC- ca. 39 AD & Seneca the Younger ( 4 BC – 65 AD)and thus exact if slightly elder & younger respectively contemporaries to Christ that the prices of slaves in the markets of the Roman Empire of people procedent from Africa were marginally higher than those procedent from what is now considered the Middle East. Both writers are considered amongst the first advocates of the reformation if not absolute abolition of human slavery. He then said that the USA is historically based on slavery & the exploitation of black men and women. This is also perfectly historically true. & doesn't even need facts & figures to prove it. c/f http://www.tucc.org/pastoral_staff.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_United_Church_of_C...hrist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright http://www.rerf.or.jp/general/qa_e/qa1.html You might like to see the Rev. Wright say it as it is on Youtube & wonder how his career as a pastor has undoubtedly ended as a result of his truthful preaching embarrassing a half-honkey presidential hopeful. But you see what he says is "hate speech" not the truth :- "They say God Bless America, I say God Damn America for killing innocent people and treating us as less than human". "we [the USA] support state terrorism on the Palestinians" :- The Rev. Wright. http://youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk Lastly but not least as a little bonus, I'd like you to enjoy the first episode of the 11th season of "South Park", one of those episodes which was so controverisal it was taken off air & is quite difficult to find due to the copyright infringement laws which hide liars worldwide. In this edition, Randy the father of Stan on a quiz show must under the glare of lights and pressure of knowing he has almost won the top prize successfully complete a seven letter word of which he has been given six letters and answer this clue :- "they annoy you", his letters are N_GGERS. Alas, naive and foolish Randy chooses an "I" instead of an "A" and must accordingly go through political correct reconditioning with hilarious results. http://loadup.ru/video/view/?id=v11707c6a7 watch it he ye pirates & enjoy it, & then copy it for its next home, it will get pulled soon enough.......too controversial. http://loadup.ru/video/view/?id=v11707c6a7 |
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God Bless the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I really wish I had more melanin. The man says it as it is.
Fox News however, is on the attack, ("Jeremiah Wright uses the N word") "Obama, I don't know what the big deal is, he's an african anyway". "What is about Obama that causes such hysteria that Mao only dreamed of".
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"The speech violated several conventions of campaign discourse -- for one, the injunction that all politicians must speak about racial and ethnic groups in upbeat stereotypes," says the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/19webmemo...login
"Presidential politics usually requires candidates to either wholly adopt or reject positions and people. Mr. Obama did neither with his pastor, rejecting his most divisive statements but also filling in the picture of Mr. Wright and his church . . . He admitted that his pastor is both a divisive figure and an inspiring one."........"Obama in effect offered his candidacy as the next chapter in a story of racial tension and reconciliation that has unfolded since the country's founding," says the L.A. Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign19ma...story
"A frank reflection on the problems of race in America that rejected the minister's words but also drew a broader personal and historical context in which to read them," says the Boston Globe.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/19/o...mate/
"Sen. Barack Obama's sweeping speech on race Tuesday marked an attempt to wrench his campaign out of a polarizing diversion and to reignite a discussion of the country's potential for moving beyond racial division, a theme that worked well for Obama early in the campaign but seemed to get lost amid recent events." says the Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0819...story
"Obama did not do the politically 'smart' thing. He did the right thing. And that is why his campaign will weather this storm . . . "At the most basic level, Obama did what the media has failed to do. He presented Wright and Wright's comments on U.S. domestic and foreign policies in context: the context of the African-American religious experience, the context of the candidate's connection to the church and, above all, the context of this country's unresolved experience of what Obama correctly refers to as 'the original sin' of the American experiment -- human bondage -- and its legacy. The speech was masterful in this regard." writes John Nicolls at "the Nation" http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&p...99938
Charles Murray at the "national Review" is wetting his cotton white pants :-
"Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I'm concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant--rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we're used to from our pols." http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjI3MWMyOGFkNm...yOGM=
Nodding to Shakespeare but not quite citing Othello, Jon Robert Baitz at Huffpost joins in the adulation :-
"We saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones (the years of 'what is is'), those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-baitz/a-bright-shi....html
And last but not least coz we know it's not about fine words, Gallup puts Mc Cain at 67% approval, Obama at 62% approval and Clinton at 53% http://www.gallup.com/poll/105073/McCains-67-Favorable-...print
I think we've all a lot to thank the Reverend Wright for regardless for how we feel about US presidential elections. His forthright opinions brought one of the best bits of political speechmaking in modern US political history & lest we overlook it, have managed to overshadow a week of otherwise evil hypocrisy. (c/f http://www.indymedia.ie/openwire?search_text=shapeshift...0&y=0 )
You can send him letters of support in his new career & plead with him to continue saying it as it is at this address -
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr
400 West 95th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60628
telephone 00 1 773-962-5650
says what people want to hear, is utterly immaculate, completely inexperienced...
Is he a child of Bush?
The campaign has reached comic cartoonish proportions with Disney land cut-outs
mouthing expressions of benignity and indifference.
I wonder why The Irish Times find him so sexually exciting (Geraldine?)
Not "de".
De PL Un = of many one
E Pl Un = out of many one
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
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Of course there was a little typo in the article where the "de" crept in. Not many people know Virgil who is credited with the motto was actually talking about preparing salad. That will score you points at the sort of social events where that type of thing scores points & almost always nobody scores anything else.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-6836310.html
http://tafkac.org/politics/e_pluribus_unum.html "The poem describes an early morning in the life of a poor old farmer, Simylus, and his one servant, an African woman named Scybale. They get up before dawn, make some bread, and prepare a "moretum," which consists of garlic, parsley, coriander, rue, salt, and cheese, all mashed together, formed into a ball, and drizzled with oil and vinegar.During the mashing of the garlic and green herbs, Virgil describes the colors blending into one ("color est e pluribus unus"), at line 102 or 104 depending on which edition you use." http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0009-8353(192304)18%3A7%3C387%3AEPU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
Another link to a compilation of Rev Dr Wright vids :- The English Times "10 must see Wright Vids"
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/03/ten-....html
Alas, just as I get into Obama or rather really want to offer his former pastor a soapbox, the great American public is it appears going off him. Tonight's index of the fickle indicates Hilary has got her lead.
I suppose the moral in all this is that the American people might recognise a magnificent bit of speech-making when its on coast to coast cable TV and prime time but they don't want the sort of person who has dropped coins on a plate of a preacherman who "says it as it is" as president.
Race never came into it. As always it's the fear of being c-o-n-t-r-o-v-e-r-s-i-a-l-