Religions > Atheism > Senator Barack Obama speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
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Senator Barack Obama speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta |
Senator Barack Obama speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
http://www.federalistjournal.com/fedblog/?p=2979
[excerpt]
A few excerpts from Senator Barack Obama's speech yesterday at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (via RealClearPolitics), with some
quick thoughts on what he had to say:
We have a deficit when CEOs are making more in ten minutes than
some workers make in ten months; when families lose their homes so
that lenders make a profit; when mothers can't afford a doctor when
their children get sick.
A classic left wing appeal to class warfare, not very unifying. And we
have millions of families living in their own homes because lenders,
which exist to make a profit, offered them mortgages.
We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby
justice for some and Jena justice for others; when our children see
nooses hanging from a schoolyard tree today, in the present, in the
twenty-first century.
Not sure what he means there; Scooter Libby suffered severely for
failing to recollect accurately what he said to a few reporters. And
while seeing a noose hung from a tree is a bad thing, it pales in
comparison to six thugs beating one kid unconscious because of the
color of his skin. Obama appears to have no feelings about that, the
real crime in Jena.
We have a deficit when homeless veterans sleep on the streets of
our cities; when innocents are slaughtered in the deserts of Darfur;
when young Americans serve tour after tour of duty in a war that
should've never been authorized and never been waged.
We wonder why Obama is so concerned about innocents in Darfur, where
there is no U.S. national interest at stake, while simultaneously so
unconcerned about the innocents in Iraq, whom he wants to abandon to
terrorist killers.
[end excerpt]
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation
of Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is
why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
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almost every media turn.
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