(2007-03-05) — During yesterday's commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march through Selma, Alabama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama each told the congregation of an African-American church that they represented the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King's prophetic “I Have a Dream” speech.
Sen. Obama, D-IL, born of a white mother and black father but running as a black candidate, noted that the Civil Rights movement has made so much progress since the Selma march, that “it's moving into phase two.”
“Two score and two years ago,” Sen. Obama said, “our fathers and mothers were beaten on a bridge here in Selma so that we might be free at last to judge a political candidate not just by the content of his character, but also by the color of his skin and even by which restroom he uses.”
Sen. Clinton, who, unlike Sen. Obama, is running for president as a woman, said that when she looked out over the congregation of African-Americans she gave “thanks to God that the civil rights movement has knocked down the racial barriers that divide people from each other.”
“Dr. King dreamed that black people and white people would be able to join hands,” said Sen. Clinton, “and that's why Bill and I came here today; so that you would have some white people with whom to do that. Today this dream is fulfilled in your midst.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Obama noted that he doesn't have to come to Selma to fulfill that dream.
“Thanks to my parentage,” he said, “All I have to do is clasp my hands in prayer.”
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1 Scott Ott // Mar 5, 2007 at 6:54 am
Hillary, Obama Fulfill Dr. King’s Dream in Selma…
by Scott Ott(2007-03-05) — During yesterday’s commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march through Selma, Alabama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama each told the congregation of an……
2 MargeinMI // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:08 am
God Bless America!
3 Sandy Burglar // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:10 am
It’s interesting that those who claim to fight for the end of division between the races are the ones that never let us forget it.
All men are created equal. Start acting like it.
God Bless America.
4 MargeinMI // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:10 am
“Dr. King dreamed that black people and white people would be able to join hands,†said Sen. Clinton, “and that’s why Bill and I came here today; so that you would have some white people with whom to do that.”
Wait a minute. I thought Bill was black! HILLARY LIED! AFRICAN AMERICANS CRIED!
5 gafisher // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:14 am
Obama: “I am that dream!”
Hillary: “I am your worst nightmare.”
Yep, it works. Except for the “content of their character” clause, which in one case is unknown and in the other better left unsaid.
6 conserve-a-tips // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:25 am
Scott, you got a hearty guffaw on this one…and I am by myself!
Hillary – the answer to every PMS woman’s dreams – turning the church into “Milk Chocolate”.
7 RedPepper // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:42 am
I can’t help but wonder … does anyone ever mention, to the young people who attend these commemorations, that the segregationist political establishment that Rev. Martin Luther King and Congressman John Lewis were protesting and marching against 42 years ago was run by Democrats ?
8 Fred Sinclair // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:49 am
“All I have to do is clasp my hands in prayer.†– it took a second (I’m kinda slow) but I got it. – Pretty nifty.
As John F. Kennedy learned when he crossed the “Nothing and nobody can stop me from becoming president” So Obama will learn if Hill thinks he is a “serious threat” to her ‘ordained’ Presidency.
It is my belief that she is borrowing extensively from Lyndon’s notebook and is preparing for a page by page replay if necessary. Obama hasn’t the odds of a snowball in July of attaining the presidency.
Heirborn Ranger
9 camojack // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:49 am
“Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama each told the congregation of an African-American church that they represented the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King’s prophetic “I Have a Dream†speech.”
Aloha! Let’s not forget that it’s Barack Hussein Obama…not that there’s anything wrong with that. Now, since I got home in the evening yesterday and worked all night; I’m going to BED…
10 MargeinMI // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:55 am
YAY! Jack makes it home safely!
You Scrapplers are on FIRE this morning!
11 MargeinMI // Mar 5, 2007 at 7:57 am
c-a-t,
Chocolate…..mmmmmmmmmmm..
–Marge(inMI) Simpson
12 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:29 am
Welcome back, camojack.
Dr. King fought for a color-blind society where a man or woman is judge by the content of their character. Now black and white race hustlers on the left say a color-blind society is inherently racist because it only perpetuates the Euro-centric hegemony here in America.
Well, I guess this will keep guilt-ridden white liberals in business the next couple of generation as they pander to black American because these powergrubbing LibDonk whites need the votes and don’t think the black man can actually make it in the real world without affirmative action or other unconstitutional prescriptions. Can anyone say, Democratic Party Plantation?
13 Shelly // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:36 am
Welcome back Jack!
I wonder if federal attorneys are worried about their jobs after the next election. Lefties are trying to make hay over Bush getting rid of eight prosecutors, while conveniently forgetting that Clinton fired each and every one of them when he took office. I guess the people in the travel office should worry as well. Job security doesn’t exist when a Clinton is in the White House – not to mention freedom from assault security, or even life security. I also wonder how Elian Gonzalez (sp?) is doing.
14 Rock Slatestone // Mar 5, 2007 at 9:38 am
Being respectful of people only when it is convenient isn’t very convenient. We need to respect all people groups. Maybe the left will figure that out.
May God continue to bless America and keep our troops safe. May God Help President Bush today.
15 Shelly // Mar 5, 2007 at 9:46 am
Michelle Malkin notes a few questions arising in the blogosphere regarding Obama’s speech:
1) His claim that a Kennedy-sponsored airlift in Africa was responsible for bringing the Obama family to the U.S.
2) His claim that events in Selma led to his parents getting together–and Obama being born.
Allah questions the timing.
1) JFK didn’t take office until two years after Obama’s arrived in the U.S.
2) Obama, Jr., was born four years before Bloody Sunday in Selma.
It’s like the legend of Hillary-Sir Edmund Hilary all over again!
16 Shelly // Mar 5, 2007 at 10:02 am
More bad news for the smartest woman in the world (you know the one who only has a shot at anything because of her husband? That great feminist icon?)
Amazingly, her southern drawl is even worse than her National Anthem. Audio at Drudge.
17 mig // Mar 5, 2007 at 10:24 am
“so that you would have some white people with whom to do that”. Hey! I resemble that remark. (chuckle chuckle, snortle!) mmmmm….. Milk Chocolate. Like a cappuchino. With the white frothy milk on top!
Welcome Back Jack!
18 MargeinMI // Mar 5, 2007 at 10:37 am
[pssst..mig...I'm due for a dye job myself..;o)]
19 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:48 am
sHrillary adopts southern accent in transparent attempt to wow black parishioners.
Well, at least she didn’t start speaking jive or started rappin’, now that would have been truly embarassing.
Eich bin Berliner?
20 GnuCarSmell // Mar 5, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I’ve noticed that Obama speaks jive in front of black audiences and Harvard in front of white audiences. Like the black and white creature he is, he will “panda” to whichever crowd he’s addressing.
This suggests he lacks the maturity to be a serious leader — but that probably won’t bother the type of voters who support him.
21 Bill's Bites // Mar 5, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Pandering in Selma…
Hillary, Obama Fulfill Dr. King’s Dream in SelmaScott Ott (2007-03-05) — During yesterday’s commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march through Selma, Alabama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential rival Sen. Bara…
22 da Bunny // Mar 5, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Sen. Clinton, who, unlike Sen. Obama, is running for president as a woman…
Muwahahaha! Good one, Scott!
All you who are Rush listeners, in Paul Shanklin’s “Osama Obama” parody, “Alabama Obama” is one of the names he uses when ridiculing Teddy’s verbal gaffe. Well, yesterday, he was “Alabama Obama!”
23 da Bunny // Mar 5, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Welcome back, camojack!
24 Hawkeye // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Yes, welcome back Camo
By the way, no word on Ms RightWing yet, eh? I hope she’s OK.
Also, has anybody heard from Possumtrot lately? I tried sending him an e-mail the other day but got no response. He said he was going in for surgery to tomorrow, so let’s keep him in our prayers.
Regards…
25 Hawkeye // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I love how the “Dueling Dems” are so willing to use African-Americans to further their political agenda. As far as color goes, I think they’re both pretty “transparent”.
26 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:56 pm
DECONSTRUCTING BARACK OBAMA’S SELMA SPEECH [black southern drawl accurately portrayed]:
…This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to dis country. He met dis woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had own’d slaves; but she had a good idea thar was some craziness goin’ on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. Thar was something stirrin’ across the country b’cause of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willin’ to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have no claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’mma not comin’ home to Selma, Alabama. [Barack may have been conceived in Selma but never lived post-partum, so how could he be "comin' home"?]
I’mma here because somebody marched. I’mma here because you all sacrificed for me. I stands on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we’ve gotta remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leadin’ a people out of bondage, he didn’t cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You’ll see it. You’ll be at the mountain top and you can see what I’ve promised. What I’ve promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I’ve fulfilled that promise but you won’t go there. [So as a good liberal who believes in separation of church and state, what in the world is Obama doing mixing religious metaphors with his secular run for the presidency? Where's the outrage liberal seculars? Oh, that's right, it's the black vote that counts, pander to that vote at all costs even if it means sounding "religious"!]
…We understand that, but I’ll tell you what. I also know that, if cousin Pookie would vote, get off’n th’ couch and register some folks and go to the polls, we might hav’n a different kind of politics. That’s what the Moses generation teaches us. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marchin’ shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country! Tha’s what we need. We have too many children in povert’ay in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don’t tell me it doesn’t have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don’t think that fatherhood ends at conception. [whaaaa? Fatherhood at conception? Is Barack suddenly rediscovering his pro-life roots. Whars the liberal outrage?] I know somethin’ ’bout that because my father wasn’t around when I was young and I struggled.
Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. [Jesus complex? "Lo, I'm with you always"?] We’ve come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to travel. We traveled because God was with us. It’s not how far we’ve come. That bridge outside was crossed by blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, teenagers and children, the beloved community of God’s children, they wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshua’s to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we’re called to be the Joshua’s of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river. [If I didn't know Obama was a flaming liberal, I'd swear that he was a Christofascist theocrat! All these biblical metaphors and references to God. Not even President Bush pandered to white evangelicals like this. What utter, cynical hypocrisy on Obama's part, and the principled liberal secular who doesn't call him on his rank pandering.]
27 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:56 pm
…Obama ate my post.
28 GnuCarSmell // Mar 5, 2007 at 2:57 pm
If anyone is curious about “Black Liberation Theology” preached at Obama’s church, link to this:
http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/03/obamas-marxist-liberation-theology.html
An excerpt: “The black Christ is he who threatens the structure of evil as seen in white society, rebelling against it, thereby becoming the embodiment of what the black community knows that it must become. . .To be a disciple of the black Christ is to become black with him. Looting, burning, or the destruction of white property are not primary concerns. Such matters can only be decided by the oppressed themselves who are seeking to develop their images of the black Christ. . .”
Some brave soul from the MSM ought to ask Obama how he could possibly belong to a “church” that teaches such garbage.
29 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Two lies from Obama’s Selma speech
1) His claim that a Kennedy-sponsored airlift in Africa was responsible for bringing the Obama family to the America. [Obama family arrived in U.S. two years before JFK was even in office!]
2) His claim that events in Selma led to his parents getting together–and Obama being born. [Obama born four years before Bloody Sunday in Selma.]
What is it about liberals and truth? I guess if it means delivering a good speech to keep people on the political reservation, truth takes a back seat. Kind of similar to sHrillary’s utterly stupid claim she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. But let’s never forget, liberals themselves viewed Bill Clinton was “the first black President.”
Interesting how liberals lie so easily and the liberals who hear them lie always make excuses for them.
Oh, I can hear it now … BUSH LIED AND PEOPLE DIED! The problem with that is Bush didn’t lie. Unlike liberals who knew the real truth about what they were saying and preferring instead to misrepresent that truth in order to advance their cause, at worst President Bush was a victim of bad intelligence and not lying about what he had been told by the intelligence community. At best there was no “misrepresentation” involved at all in President Bush’s claims since we now know, A) Joe Wilson was the one who lied about Niger yellowcake, not the British intelligence agency nor President Bush, and B) There had been WMD in Iraq and over 500 WMD were eventually uncovered by by American soldiers in Iraq since March 2003 – weaponized chemical and biological munitions which were indeed covered under the terms of UN Resolution 1441.
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 5, 2007 at 4:13 pm
RE: #28~~
GnuCarSmell~~
Dang!
B. Hussein Obama always did give me the creeps, now he’s giving me the willies, too. His arrogant smugness struck me as, perhaps, indicative of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I think I’ll remove that “perhaps” from my thinking.
That preacher is deranged, by the way. If I went through just the few paragraphs of that hysterically racist filth written by that mad author he seems to get his sick “theology” from, debunking each hate-filled point with the Word of God, I’d be here all day. Egad.
“The definition of Jesus as black is crucial for christology [sic] if we truly believer[sic] in his [sic] continued presence today. Taking our clue from the historical Jesus who is pictured in the New Testament as the Oppressed One, what else, except blackness, could adequately tell us the meaning of his [sic] presence today?”
Indeed. Hah. Totally bonkers.
31 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 4:21 pm
When will white liberals and black Americans understand that Jesus was neither female, black or a political activist. Messiah Jesus was a male Jew, fully man fully God, the exact image of the Father. “He who has seen me has seen the Father.”
Hope Osama Obama doesn’t start saying, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” given his own predisposition to a messiah complex. Obama is sounding less like a Manchurian Candidate and more like the anti-Christ the way he represents himself as the fullfullment of King’s civil rights prophecy/dream: “I am the fulfillment … blah, blah, blah.”
Amen, JL3rd, Americans had better wake up and see the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
32 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 4:47 pm
al Goracle pays his “carbon offsets” to a company he partly owns. Which makes this lying deceiver a total charlatan on a whole ‘nother level … like we didn’t know already.
Apart from the questionable morality of “carbon offsets”, for Goracle to enrichen himself in this manner is despicable. For him personally to promote “carbon offsets” is not only dishonest but it represents a clear conflict of interest on his part, particularly since he’s one of the Global Warming Chicken Littles in the first place! What hubris! But the lamestream media will probably ignore this news story, too, and the average American won’t understand what a snake oil salesman Goracle has become.
33 GnuCarSmell // Mar 5, 2007 at 5:10 pm
You heard it here first: Al Gore has a brilliant new book that explains how you can eat all you want as long as you buy calorie offsets. It’s called “Girth In The Balance.”
Read it, pay the offsets, and be thin!
34 SnakeDoctor // Mar 5, 2007 at 6:24 pm
When I was a young Christian and very interested in prophecy, I could never understand how Anti-Christ could come to power. How could it be that people wouldn’t see right through him? How could it be that people, worldwide, would love and worship the incarnation of evil? After hearing and reading about the goings on in Selma, I wonder alot less.
I’ve never understood the adoration that the MSM has for Bill and Hillary, much less this fascination for Barack Obama. Especially this fascination for Obama. The man is a blank slate. What has he done other than manage to stay alive for 40+ years? At least Edwards, Hillary and Kucinich (of all people) have some accomplishments next to their names.
Edwards managed to get filthy rich being an ambulance chaser par excellance. Hillary managed to bungle Whitewater and almost did the same thing to our healthcare system in 1994. Dennis Kucinich got himself elected mayor of Cleveland and almost managed to destroy the city before being thrown out by the voters.
I do not mean to suggest that any of the politicians that went to Selma are pure evil. They are only slightly more evil than politicians are generally. What I can’t understand is how the people of Selma can’t see that they are being lied to, pandered to, and used like a cheap hooker.
We are now Rome in the time of bread and circuses. And to think… this is just the beginning… the primaries don’t start for another ten months and the general election isn’t for another 19!!! yes 19 months.
I don’t know about God blessing us, it seems more to me like He has abandoned us to our own foolishness, however perhaps in His grace He will have mercy on us.
35 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 5, 2007 at 6:32 pm
See, there’s a perfect mini-example of (just) one of the major problems with that Kyoto Protocol–people moving money from their left pocket to their right pocket, continuing to do whatever they please while looking somberly down their nose, tsk-tsk-ing at those who don’t happen to have the where-with-all to do likewise. A total sham and nothing more than a shakedown.
36 SnakeDoctor // Mar 5, 2007 at 6:32 pm
puuuuuuuuussssshhhhh!!!!!!!
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 5, 2007 at 6:39 pm
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.~~Deuteronomy 31:8
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.~~Isaiah 42:16
38 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I’d heard some buzz the last couple of days about belief in God being some sort of evolutionary/genetic defect, so I decided to read an article from the NYT entitled “Darwin’s God” mentioned in today’s JTA Daily Briefing email.
The mental contortions these people go through to deny the obvious are beyond me. I think the real question is: How can anyone not believe in God!?!
That’s a rhetorical question, of course, but why isn’t someone spending millions of dollars or gaining prominence in the book-publishing world or spending their tenure at a world-class university studying the evolutionary/genetic defect involved in denying what is so perfectly obvious and logical?
Has anyone (human, that is) yet created something from nothing? Of course not. Why not? They’re not God.
39 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Ah, but Jameson, if you shine enough sunlight (”free” energy) on some primordial soup, inanimate matter magically becomes animate. And if that doesn’t work, just hit it with a lightning bolt. Viola … life!
Sure our bodies are infinitely more complex than some wristwatch or even the latest automobile, but it’s a real leap in logic to assume there is a human Maker just because there has to be a watchmaker or an automaker.
Don’t you know random chance plus (in best Carl Sagan voice) billions and billions and billions of years will eventually result in ever complex, novel lifeforms? Sheesh! Silly boy, get with the program.
40 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:31 pm
UPDATE
An accurate transcript from the audio of Barack Obama’s Selma speech where he adopted “black speak” to shamelessly pander to his audience:
OBAMA: This is the site of my conception. I am the fruits of your labor. I am the offspring of the movahmint. So when people ask me whether I’ve been to Selma befo’, I tell ‘em I’m comin’ home.
Democrats are such shameless panderers. I still remember from 2004 when John Kerry was playing up to Iowans and other Midwesterners when he waltzed into a store and inquired, “Is this whar ah can git me a huntin’ license?” Bunch of calculating fakes. And yet liberals see them as their messiahs! God save us from such pandering fools.
41 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:32 pm
…doh!
42 camojack // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:43 am
Mahalo to all for the welcome back!!!
43 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 6:59 am
Now I don’t condone Ann Coulter’s use of the term “faggot” to describe John Edwards (actually the term does show up somewhere in a sentence that contained the name of John Edwards, listen to the audiotape) because I don’t think its flattering for homosexuals to be compared to someone like John Edwards, but I think the left is being hypocritical here.
I seem to remember when the same term was used to describe Jeff Gannon by more than a few liberals, and certainly there is a whole sub-culture within the DemDonk Party which used same term with regard to Karl Rove! And disgraced preacher Ted Haggart also had the term applied to him by more than one self-righteous left-wing blogger. So why are liberal complaining other than the fact they can depend on the lamestream media to exercise its vaunted selective memories in condemning conservatives who typically engage in far less name calling than so-called “enlightened” and “compassionate” liberals. Such world-class hypocrites on the left.
44 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:12 am
NEWFLASH
Sun Responsible for Global Warming
Two new reports cast doubt on the manmade global warming theory and instead point to another cause for the recent warming of Earth — changes in the sun.
One report from National Geographic News asserts, “Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause, according to one scientist’s controversial theory.â€
Data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey mission in 2005 disclosed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps†near Mars’ south pole had been shrinking for three consecutive summers.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the shrinking provides evidence that the current warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun, according to the National Geographic article.
Once again Scrapplers are ahead of the curve. We pointed this out nearly two years ago! Also note how if one’s theory differs from the typical Global Warming pap, it’s labeled “controversial.” Sheesh!
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