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Across the Divide

How Barack Obama is shaking up old assumptions about what it means to be black and white in America.

 
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  • Posted By: maloroxja @ 03/17/2008 9:50:59 PM

    Comment: By the way, the video about pastor wright preaching in that church was quite scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Mary934 @ 03/17/2008 6:10:29 PM

    Comment: Finally we are seeing what Barack is all about! Not anyone that I want to vote for. Now or any other time. I could not believe what I was seeing when I watched Pastor Wright preaching to his congregation. Then I watched another pastor defending him saying that it what black preachers do, try to get the congregation motivated. Motivated to do what, just making them more hostile and angrier? I don't quite see the logic and I don't think anyone else does either. Hillary will be our salvation, and I will be voting for her. Time for a woman president. I am glad that he hasn't been able to hide this and I read the article re his cocaine and his sexual encounters and glad this will probably surface too. Hillary is the only one to beat McCain, and we certainly can't afford to have another Republican in the White House that thinks George Bush was a good president. His Administration would be just an extension of the present Administration.

    • Posted By: spideretavele @ 04/29/2008 01:37:00

      Comment: you refuse to see the truth because of your own bigotry.

  • Posted By: satchel1 @ 03/17/2008 7:57:32 AM

    Comment: Comment: I am confused when it comes to Barack Obama. If he is running for office thinking he can inspire people in america for change because he is black, then what part of him is white? The last time I check he was a product of a bi-racial couple, which is fine if you acknowledge that in the beginning. I think this guy is playing with people's minds saying hey vote for me because i am different then the typical candidate, I am BLACK. Again we should not put this guy in office bace on what he thinks he is, because simply in the minds of many he as gotten an easy pass because he is bi-racial. It should be noted, that Barack is well spoken and intelligent, but the bottom line is he is playing the race card and that bother's me a great deal. Too many black men and women have died in our history out of pure hatred because they had two black parents. Lets stop this madness and lets do the right thing here. When this guy is ready, and has a genuine platform to be a leader put him in office but now, I think Barack needs to go back to CHURCH, and re-evaluate himself. With that said and done, I challenge this guy to stop playing the race card and run a honest campaign.......lets see if he gets this message

  • Posted By: leemoreth @ 03/15/2008 10:04:16 AM

    Comment: Obama is ahead of his time by sixteen years! American needs that time to get rid of all the remaining racial hatred and for "real blacks", who are a product of the post slavery cilture (Obama is not!) to come forth and lead this country and their assimilated people! We, America is in big trouble NOw and we don't need further divisions or distractions along racial lines at this point! Obam studied (Rev. Wright was his mntor after all), befriended and absorbed by osmosis or whatever the teachings of an angry man, he knows that he did that possibly to try to absorb blackness and to get a sense aof self,. Well, folks, I am looking for someone to solve my generic problems and not racial problems and Hillary can do that very well thank you. Obama is done.

  • Posted By: EFLAMAR @ 03/14/2008 9:15:15 AM

    Comment: I really admire a man who has the courage of his convictions;to try and go out and go against such overwhelming odds.He has to deal with the race issues,party issues,gender issues,age issues etc.Will he ever be president ,I don't know.Right now I don't think he knows or cares.He probabaly feels like a guy thats in a fight.When you are in the fight yiuy just want to get off the defensive and get on the offensive.And sometimes getting on the offensive is the hardest thing to do.And in that respect ;he has a punchers chance.Maybe it is America's chance he is carrying in those gloves.I am hoping for knockout.Then we can crown a new champion ;one that will work for what is good and right.God's Speed ,Mr.Barack Hussein Obama.

  • Posted By: smithjnwa123 @ 03/13/2008 4:35:22 PM

    Comment: I just read an artilce in Newsweek. It was about the Senator Barack Obama. I now know why I have become a believer in this person, who might become the next President of this great counrty. Talking about a recent talk he gave in Selma, Al and the wonderful talk he gave. Barack (Senator Obama) said according to the writer "...Now he makes it clear that he was a young boy at the time of Bloody Sunday, but he says the marchers fought for the rights of children just like him. "They did that for me and now we've got to do it for the next generation," he said last week in front of an ivy-covered barn in southeastern Iowa. "When I went back to Washington [from Selma], some people slapped me on the back and said, 'That was a wonderful celebration of African-American history.' I said, 'You don't understand: that was a celebration of American history.' Because at every juncture in American history, that's how change happens???by people coming together and deciding we're going to have a better America...."

    I hope that he can do for all of us ... what he just did for me! I am willing to try ... I will vote and work for him and his goal for America .... in any way I can.

    God Bless America

  • Posted By: desertclair @ 03/13/2008 4:06:00 PM

    Comment: After seeing Obama's pastor speak about white people today, I can't see how he could possibly bring this country together, especially with the "racists" attacks his campaign have already used against people who have fought their entire political careers for equality. He will lose in the general election. Obama is destroying our chance for "change" from the Republican agenda. I hope people wake up in time to realize that HIllary is the best person for the job. She can beat McCain!

    Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11 To see Obama's paster go here: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1

    Is that why Obama was against the war? Because his pastor told him the US was to blame?

  • Posted By: chupacabra @ 02/24/2008 5:10:20 PM

    Comment: Obama smoked crack cocaine and had gay sex in Chicago in the back of a limo with Larry Sinclair in 1999, when Obama was a state representative in the Illinois legislature. Sinclair filed suit on Obama and the Democratic National Committee to compel release of this information to the public on 2/11/08. Sinclair took a polygraph test on 2/22/08 and the results will be released to the national media early next week. (He passed with flying colors.) Check out WHITEHOUSE DOT COM for the details. Bill O"Reilly has stated that he will run with the story next week once he reviews the polygraph.

  • Posted By: montecristo antique @ 02/23/2008 4:02:46 PM

    Comment: Internet wildfires. YouTube phenomenas. One click on a website, tell me what stops the rest of the world from manipulating American politics?

  • Posted By: Mz. Berry @ 02/20/2008 12:33:44 AM

    Comment: I am a white, middle class woman supporting Barak Obama. I just can't bring myself to support Hillary Clinton at this point, although I will support the Democratic candidate unless 'hell breaks loose". Hilary is a nice person with more White House experience, but I do not want a Margaret Thatcher - a man in women's clothing. There is something about Senator Obama that feels more genuine, more realistic.

  • Posted By: nanajud @ 02/19/2008 10:23:02 PM

    Comment: does anybody notice his father is from Kenya. His is only one generation American born. Why does he goe by Obama. Why did he chose a muslim name.

    • Posted By: spideretavele @ 04/29/2008 01:43:44

      Comment: Stay strong Obama. Your cause is just. You know that you are on the right track, look at all the forces coming against you.

 
 
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