Obama casts himself as civil rights successor - Joshua

[Alamom]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7026.html

Obama casts himself as civil rights successor

By: Mike Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown
Nov 25, 2007

*DES MOINES — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) cast himself Sunday as a natural and necessary heir to the civil rights greats, appealing to black worshippers to show the courage of their forerunners and back his candidacy for president.

In an unannounced appearance that startled most in the African-American congregation, Obama cast his campaign in historic and even divine terms.

He said that, like Moses, the civil rights pioneers had been to the mountaintop but did not reach the promised land, leaving it to today’s generation to finish the job, much as Joshua succeeded Moses.

“We have inherited this opportunity from the Moses generation ... who have teed it up for us,” he said.

“I didn’t have to go to jail. I haven’t had my head beat in — haven’t had dogs and fire hoses set on me. So I’m benefiting from what the Moses generation did. ...



A waffle, a flip-flop or ...what, exactly?

*Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) cast himself Sunday as a natural and necessary heir to the civil rights greats, appealing to black worshippers to show the courage of their forerunners and back his candidacy for president.

OR

Reporters on the campaign trail have noticed that Obama has begun throwing a line into his speeches about how he isn't running "to fulfill some long-held plan or because it was owed to me."


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/26/EDQPTFD5Q.DTL

[wyldwolf]

1. ..but he wants to leave the fights of the 60s behind... must be why John Lewis didn't endorse him

[riqster]

2. No civil rights for gays, of course. nt

[Odin2005]

3. No, he wants to leave the outdated debating frames behind.

Sad that the Obama-haters have to keep repeating that lie.

[wyldwolf]

4. is that what he said?

[msongs]

5. disagree with obama = "hater", is that a track on the new donnie mcclurkin CD? nt

[Clintonista2]

6. LOL!

[Cameron27]

7. The Moses generation =

60's activists, baby boomers?

[cuke]

8. Obama compares himself to a Biblical figure, and Obama supporters have no problem

but Hillary says she's going to win the nomination, and in another thread, they go wild at her presumption.

[AtomicKitten]

9. He's the natural successor in this race and the only

one really talking about racial inequity:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3760050&mesg_id=3760050