Drudge has the full text of the Obama speech. I heard enough and read enough to see he is simply just like all the rest of the pandering candidates that run for any political office any longer.
Look here at this quote, from Page 2 of the Trumpet Media kit http://www.trumpetmag.com/pdf/mediakit.pdf:
The TRUMPET is the only faith-based publication from a local congregation that tells the truth about liars like George Bush and Ronald Reagan. When Reagan died, for instance, the nation developed an immediate case of amnesia and every white corporate-owned media outlet began to sing Reagan’s praises as if he were the greatest President in the history of these “yet-to-be United States” (to use Maya Angelou’s term).
Sorry, this guy has been attending this church for over 20 years. I have walked out of churches that said much less than statements like the Rev Wright spewed forth.
What is the mission of a Christian Church? How about the great commission by Jesus Christ. We are to go forth and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and spread the good news about His Kingdom, His Death and Resurrection and the Kingdom to come.
So my question to him and his pastor is…. Who’s gospel are you preaching from? Surely it is not from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John or the Book of Acts. And it is not from any of the Sermons that Christ Himself gave.
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2008®
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.
Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackValid critizism, but if you were the first serious black candidate for President of the United States and you were giving a speech at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, what would you say, given the possibility that the founding fathers who drafted the Constitution might have OWNED your great grandfather?
There has been no descent of a slave elected to this office. I think the first one deserves some latitude on this issue, don’t you?
Many of the Founding fathers did own slaves, that’s a fact. What else better than to focus on the Freedom they got from Abraham Lincoln? Slaves went to the north to fight the oppression of the southern slave owners. Thank God that when it came to Slavery the north won.
That was so many years ago, his pastor still subscribes to it as though it is still going on today in this country. It isn’t, focus on the bravery of those that fought for the very freedom we all have today. Continually focusing on the past and the negative simply keeps the divide in this country and in fact makes it worse.
I have enjoyed the sermons of many Black Pastors, when they stay focused on their job which is preaching from the Gospel and the Salvation in Jesus Christ there should be Joy… Not divisive speech.
Ah, the great teachings of Pride & Prejudice under the name of God.
Growing up in the Catholic faith, the God I know and pray to knows no color, black or white, green or purple.
Funny thing though, why when the word “racist” is used do people automatically think of hatred upon blacks (or another ethinic background) and not the discrimination upon whites?
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