Obama tells NAACP blacks must take responsibility

CINCINNATI - Democrat Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the nation's oldest civil rights organization, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_el_pr/obama_blacks

Translation: Get your shit together.

 

Why is Jesse so hostile towards Obama. His daugher is Obama and Micehelle's daughters godparent. Negativty is not going to help anyone.

 

He isn't and I'm not so sure that his supposed slip up on Fox News wasn't calculated to make Obama more palatable to white moderates and conservatives.

 

Co-sign....I knew it was fake when Jessie's son, said that he "denounces and rejects" Obama....pure theater. A lot of the black leaders don't want to trample on Obama and push moderate whites away.

 

I actually felt that Jesse was deliberately slighted by Obama but there are legitimate reasons to believe that it was all a set-up. However, i remain unconvinced that "moderate" whites who wouldn't have wanted to vote for Obama will now make that decision to change their minds.

 

Agreed....I think the media is making so much out of the tightness of the race. I wonder what will happen when Obama and McCain stand side-by-side...the visual difference....(we're not even talking policy) will be striking...and people will think twice. The GOP would be set if they could take Mitt Romney's look, Huckabee's religious tilt and McCain's overall background and story.

Obama should ask...."Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?"...."Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago?"....And then point out that McCain has voted with Bush 95% of the time. McCain wants to make the election about Obama and what he isn't.....Obama wants to make this election about McCain....AND...George W. Bush.

 

I'm glad to see that i'm not the only one who thinks that Barack Obama isn't waging as effective a campaign as he ought to. Damn, you know if it were a Democratic incumbent who had a 28% approval rate, an economy in the toilet and a war which wasn't going too well, the Republicans would swear the Democratic opponent was seperated at birth from the incumbent.

If Obama does what Reagan did to Carter, i see no reason why he shouldn't win.

 

Whether Obama wins or loses, black people still need to get their shit together. When someone wants to discuss that, let me know.

Toodles.

 

Jackson was stupid to be on Fox in the first place. Why go on a network where your nemeisis is Bill O'Reilly?

 

That picture of Trina Michales is very distracting. How the hell am I supposed to discuss a serious topic when she's got them juicy-ass juggs in my line of sight. :lol:

 

Toodles? LOL! I haven't heard that word in forever! :lol:

 

I heard that name from John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald,JFK's grandfather whose girlfriend/mistress was named Toodles.

 

in fairness to Sen. Obama, it kind of goes without saying that a church is an appropriate place for a speech on moral responsibility, and is something the target audience needs to be engaged about.. still, on other fronts, there are some disappointing developments, but it's too soon to call how they'll play out.. :wink:

http://hypestyleshomebase.blogspot.com/2008/07/everything-in-moderation-except-when-i.html

 

Wait...

After thinking about it clearly, Obama wins by a LONG way!

They are trying to keep it close in the media so you'll tune in and watch, don't buy it.

He WAS right, people CHEERED, I don't see why its a thread on here...

What is Tom Joyners DUMB ass on this Reclaming The Dream shiet?