Regis Philbin
Jan 20th, 2008, 09:04 PM
We don't allow political speeches in churches in my faith. Frankly, I don't think that's the place for them. It gives the impression that the church supports a particular candidate or party. It's not right.
BUT...I notice Obama and Mrs. Clinton give them quite often and nothing is ever said. I'd just like to see what would happen if Mitt Romney gave one in a Mormon chapel. It will never happen because Mormons wouldn't allow it. But still, I'd be interested in the reaction from the Left if it happened. :]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080120221259.5g38mexz&show_article=1
Obama urges unity in rousing speech at King's church
Jan 20 05:13 PM US/Eastern
‘Unity is the Great Need’: Obama Gives Rare ‘Race’ Speech at MLK’s Church
White House hopeful Barack Obama made a rare foray into the complicated politics of race on Sunday in a speech on the eve of a national holiday to commemorate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
"At a time when many were still doubtful about the possibilities of change, a time when those in the black community mistrusted themselves, and at times mistrusted each other, King inspired with words not of anger, but of an urgency that still speaks to us today," Obama said.
"'Unity is the great need of the hour' is what King said. Unity is how we shall overcome," said the Illinois senator, who narrowly lost Saturday's Nevada Democratic caucuses to rival Hillary Clinton, who took 51 percent of the state's vote to Obama's 45 percent.
The race for the Democratic party's nominee for president, which has seen Clinton grab the lead after her earlier win in New Hampshire, has heated up with both senators now competing furiously for the support of black voters.
Speaking to hundreds of people at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in the southeastern state of Georgia, where King launched the civil rights movement, Obama evoked the ongoing racial and ideological divide in America.
"We have walls, barriers to justice and equality that must come down," Obama said as King's sister Christine listened and nodded from her spot in a front pew.
"For most of this country's history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man's inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays -- on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.
BUT...I notice Obama and Mrs. Clinton give them quite often and nothing is ever said. I'd just like to see what would happen if Mitt Romney gave one in a Mormon chapel. It will never happen because Mormons wouldn't allow it. But still, I'd be interested in the reaction from the Left if it happened. :]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080120221259.5g38mexz&show_article=1
Obama urges unity in rousing speech at King's church
Jan 20 05:13 PM US/Eastern
‘Unity is the Great Need’: Obama Gives Rare ‘Race’ Speech at MLK’s Church
White House hopeful Barack Obama made a rare foray into the complicated politics of race on Sunday in a speech on the eve of a national holiday to commemorate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
"At a time when many were still doubtful about the possibilities of change, a time when those in the black community mistrusted themselves, and at times mistrusted each other, King inspired with words not of anger, but of an urgency that still speaks to us today," Obama said.
"'Unity is the great need of the hour' is what King said. Unity is how we shall overcome," said the Illinois senator, who narrowly lost Saturday's Nevada Democratic caucuses to rival Hillary Clinton, who took 51 percent of the state's vote to Obama's 45 percent.
The race for the Democratic party's nominee for president, which has seen Clinton grab the lead after her earlier win in New Hampshire, has heated up with both senators now competing furiously for the support of black voters.
Speaking to hundreds of people at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in the southeastern state of Georgia, where King launched the civil rights movement, Obama evoked the ongoing racial and ideological divide in America.
"We have walls, barriers to justice and equality that must come down," Obama said as King's sister Christine listened and nodded from her spot in a front pew.
"For most of this country's history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man's inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays -- on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.