Obama The Hypocrite
WASHINGTON – While Sen. Barack Obama said he couldn't throw over his friend and pastor of 20 years for racially charged and divisive hate speech, he had no trouble calling for the head of Sen. Trent Lott, the Republican Senate majority leader, for embracing a colleague with a segregationist past on his 100th birthday.
On Dec. 12, 2002, Obama, then serving as an Illinois state senator and filling in as host of the Cliff Kelley radio show on WVON, challenged the Republican Party to demand Lott's resignation.
"It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do," said Obama.
He added: "The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party."
5 Comments:
When Obama stands for what he condemned Trent Lott for doing, it is bigotry, nothing but bigotry.
Whenever someone says one thing and does another it is always called "hypocritical." No other word for it.
Obama was talking out of both sides of his mouth. If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, then I don't know what is.
Like I say I would not vote for him.
Yes he is a bad one, don't like him and he's no better or worse than Hillary.l Two of the same litter.
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