Racist Rant by Obama's 2009 Inauguration Preacher

[longknife]

According to the Monroe County Reporter, Dr. Joseph Lowery spoke at St. James Baptist Church on Saturday in an attempt to push the vote for President Barack Obama. Lowery, you may recall, was the genius who uttered these glorious words at the inauguration of Obama in 2009 during his benediction:

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around … when yellow will be mellow … when the red man can get ahead, man … and when white will embrace what is right.

He hasn’t moderated any. At the church, Lowery said that he liked giving the benediction in 2008 because he had the last word. He also said, according to the Reporter, that the inauguration was “the first time in his life he enjoyed the national anthem; he said the anthem is too militaristic. He said he would like to see the national anthem changed to ‘Lift Every Voice,’ which is known as the ‘Negro National Anthem,’ or to ‘America the Beautiful.’

Lowery blasted blacks who didn’t bother showing up to the polls for Obama in 2008. “I don't know what kind of a n----- wouldn't vote with a black man running. All that he did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney."

He also said that when he was younger, he thought all white people were going to hell. Then he “mellowed and just said most of them were.” Now, the Reporter said, Lowery said he’s back to his original view. All white people are going to hell. Then he added, “I’m frightened by the level of hatred and bitterness coming out in this election.”

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[ScienceRocks]

This is racism but most blacks only cry about the people pointing it out. Critical thought isn't a held high in the black community.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - Obama gettin' inaugurated by his crony capitalists...

ExxonMobil will give $250K to inauguration
1/17/13 - ExxonMobil plans to contribute $250,000 to President Obama’s inauguration.

The donation is an important contribution for Obama, who is accepting corporate money for his inauguration for the first time. At least eight corporations have contributed money to the 2013 inauguration, according to donors’ names released by Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee. Yet Obama is trailing President George W. Bush when it comes to picking up corporate support thus far. More than 45 companies contributed the maximum amount allowed of $250,000 apiece to help finance Bush’s 2005 inauguration, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Brent Colburn, communications director for Obama’s Inaugural committee, expressed confidence the group would meet its fundraising needs.

Colburn also noted that more inaugural donors’ names — possibly including some corporations — will be posted on the committee’s website. “Our expectation is just that we will be able to meet the fundraising needs we have to put on these events and we are well on track for that. Outside of that, we really don’t have any expectations in terms of numbers or types of donors,” Colburn said. “It’s really up to those corporations if they want to be involved, and we welcome the support if they choose they want to.”

Corporate political spending has come under more scrutiny as outside campaign spending shot up following the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that let companies and unions spend unlimited funds on electioneering. “Given the 2012 election, I’m not surprised that corporations have been fairly shy about giving money to the inauguration,” said Meredith McGehee, policy director for the Campaign Legal Center. “Corporations look at these decisions through a risk-management lens. ... Now that we are talking in the millions, it becomes another of their risk-management decisions. What do we get for our contributions? What do we risk in political backlash?”

One Democratic lobbyist said because Obama didn’t accept corporate contributions for his 2009 inauguration, companies likely expected that they wouldn’t be able to give this time, either. “They started late. They didn’t announce they were taking corporate money until close to the event,” said the lobbyist. “Because they didn’t take corporate money last time, I suspect companies didn’t include it in their budgets. Companies plan, they have budgets, even for their government relations.” The Inaugural committee is not accepting contributions from lobbyists and political action committees. A number of brand-name companies — Bank of America, FedEx, Ford Motor Co., Home Depot, Pfizer and Exxon, to name a few — gave at least $250,000 each to Bush’s second inauguration. That earned the companies “underwriter” status, giving them a package of tickets to official Inaugural balls and dinners, according to press reports at the time.

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Thursday, January 17, 2013 - "Transpartisanship" is the genteel word for what they're doing

It was a mind-blowing political tableau: a co-founder of liberal bulwark MoveOn sitting in her Berkeley living room, laughing, sharing homemade blueberry scones and occasionally agreeing with a national Tea Party figure. Truth is, MoveOn's Joan Blades - clad in Lululemon yoga pants and clogs - and Mark Meckler, sporting a leather cowboy vest, boots and a belt buckle larger than a baby's head - have been talking online and over the phone for a few years now. Quietly, until now. "Transpartisanship" is the genteel word for what they're doing. Blades has been involved in similar types of projects for about a decade, but this is a fairly new school of political thought, which posits that people can come together to find some common ground without abandoning their core beliefs.

The gathering this month marked the first time Blades and Meckler had met in person, and each brought two like-minded friends. The occasion was the latest installment of Living Room Conversations ( Living Room Conversations | An Open Source Project), Blades' latest national transpartisan project that she co-founded with former GOP operative Amanda Kathryn Roman, who lives in New Jersey. It involves one or two co-hosts pulling together an intimate gathering of folks who might believe they agree on little politically - until they sit down together to listen to one another's perspective. Civilly.

Eventually, they find places they agree. That's what happened between Blades and Meckler, and it should give hope to a nation locked in scrums over guns and immigration and taxes. This living room bonded, even if, as Blades' pal Rodney Ferguson of Oakland said, "I'd never met anybody from the Tea Party before. When Joan said there was going to be one here, I said, 'Oh, hell yes I want to be there.' "Or, as Meckler's friend Eric Eisenhammer of Roseville gushed deferentially to the soft-spoken Blades: "MoveOn is such an aggressive political organization and you ... you ... don't fit the image of that."

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[Stephanie]

Obama's inauguration was sick and disgusting, not only with this preacher but when the people there booed Bush and starting signing..

That is his base though, uncouth, no class just like him and it's even worse after he won re-election