Does Obama support Reparations?

Does Obama Favor Slavery “Reparations?”

"Not only are members of his church involved in the reparations movement; Obama is said to have been politically close to former Chicago Alderman Dorothy Jean Wright Tillman, who led an effort by the Chicago City Council to demand reparations for slavery. “Chicago has become the de facto center of the slavery reparations movement,” noted a journalist for the far-left In These Times. The Obamas’ just-released 2006 income tax return shows that they gave $22,500 to Trinity United Church of Christ, which they attended with such figures as Wright and Carruthers."

"Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004 Obama opposed reparations for slavery. After his election, Obama subtly changed his view, stating he was against "just signing over checks to African-Americans," leaving open the possibility of other forms of reparations would be acceptable to him (Chicago Tribune 11/14/2004).

Second, whom does Barry O "hang" with? Well, Obama hangs with the reparations crowd. Now guilt by association is certainly unfair. But if you hang with the reparations crowd, they must see something in you they like. Indeed they do. U. S. Representative John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is reportedly waiting for Obama to be elected so Conyers can rush a reparations law through Congress. (The Hill, 3/13/ 2007) Hmmm. Does Conyers know something we don't?"

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Submitted by Main Stream on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 8:23am.

beaver/dense/beeper...

There is NO SOLID evidence anywhere, stating that Obama is pro-reparations. You continue to post this crap, however, once any intelligent person actually reads your links, we find out that it is all heresay or innuendo and a continued attempt to link Obama to these strange conspiracy theories relating to anything under the sun (pro-reparations, 'he's a Muslim', 'no he's a commie/socialist',BLT,anti-American, etc. etc.).

Obama, when asked about reparations in one of the Dem debates, states that he would rather spend money on increasing the quality of our educational system (great idea!) and Kucinich is the ONLY Dem that states he is FOR reparations.

Get your facts straight and stop spewing your idiot posts. They make you look very stupid.

Here is the vid - take some time to watch and let it sink in.

REPARATIONS - ONLY KUCINICH SUPPORTS


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Submitted by Denise Conner on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 8:42am.

“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
Elbert Hubbard

The name-calling technique ["idiot," "stupid"] links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol. The propagandist who uses this technique that appeals to our emotions rather than to our reason (not your strong suit Laughing out loud) hopes that the audience will reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative symbol, instead of looking at the available evidence.

You've convinced me that you're so much more intelligent than the rest of us. Laughing out loud

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Submitted by sniffles5 on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:13am.

Still waiting for one shred of evidence to support your claim that Barack Obama personally supported reparations.

C'mon Dense! Make your daddy proud for once! Put us libruls in our place! Give us some evidence!

Shouldn't be so hard for a smart girl like you, right? Right?

What's the matter? Is google down?

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Submitted by Denise Conner on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 6:13am.


“Obama and the Drive for Slavery Reparations”

In 2001, Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ passed a resolution declaring that:

“WHEREAS: The institution of Slavery is internationally recognized as crime for which there is no statute of limitations, AND

WHEREAS: Uncompensated labor was demanded from enslaved Africans and their descendants for more than two centuries on U.S. soil; AND

WHEREAS: The principle that reparations is the appropriate remedy whenever government unjustly abrogates the rights of a domestic group or foreign people whose rights such government is obligated to protect or uphold has been internationally recognized…”

“One group, the African World Reparations and Repatriation Truth Commission, [which hopes to use the United Nations as a vehicle to shake down U.S. taxpayers for trillions of dollars in slavery reparations] is demanding an astronomical $777 trillion.” Read the article to see the many ties O-BOMBa (& the Clintons) has with those who suffer from “Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome.” Shocked

Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time that Obama hasn’t been forthright about his connections and true beliefs (such as the Second Amendment).

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“Obama's Gun Dance”


HERE
is Hillary’s answer to the question when she last used a gun. Shocked


“Hillary Get Your Gun”
Laughing out loud


“Seizing Moment, Hillary Totes Bible to Gun Range”
Laughing out loud


THIS
should make us all feel safer.

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“Advocates Quietly Push for Slavery Reparations”

“Reparations opponents insist that no living American should have to pay for a practice that ended more than 140 years ago. Plus, programs such as affirmative action and welfare already have compensated for past injustices, said John H. McWhorter, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute.

“‘The reparations movement is based on a fallacy that cripples the thinking on race — the fallacy that what ails black America is a cash problem,’ said McWhorter, who is black. ‘Giving people money will not solve the problems that we have.’”


“Does Obama Favor Slavery ‘Reparations?’”

Barrack Obama’s pastor not only spews anti-American rhetoric from the pulpit but favors shaking down U.S. taxpayers for “reparations” for slavery. The Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright was the keynote speaker [“A Call for Justice and Repair”] at the 2007 annual conference of N’COBRA, which stands for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.


“Patient Conyers Hopes to Move Slavery Bill During an Obama Administration”

“Obama’s campaign did not respond to requests for information about the senator’s position on the bill, H.R. 40.” [“40” was chosen by Conyers as “a symbol of the 40 acres and a mule that the U.S. initially promised freed slaves.”] Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has “strongly backed Obama for president.” New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), another Obama supporter, supports the Conyers measure and a formal apology for slavery.

“Most of the cosponsors of the measure are black, including Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.). White members who back it include Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and John Olver (D-Mass.).”

“Conyers noted that his bill calls for the president to appoint three members to a seven-member commission to analyze the effects of slavery. The House Speaker [San Fran Nancy] would make three appointments, while the president pro tempore of the Senate [Robert KKK Byrd (D-WV)] would tap one member…. Conyers does not want President Bush’s appointees to have a role on such a panel.”

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Submitted by sniffles5 on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 4:20am.

It never ceases to amaze me how you Republitards can turn on a dime to suit your argument of the moment.

Back in 2004, when carpetbagging Republican Housenegro™ Alan Keyes was running against Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate, "reparations" was a key component of KEYES campaign (maybe this is why Dense Conner likes him?). Keyes criticized Obama for being AGAINST reparations. Keyes was FOR reparations. (LINK)

I think you got the wrong Negro there, Beavis. But I suspect that, not unlike Richard Hobbs similar confusion last week, "they all look alike to you".
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Submitted by Denise Conner on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 6:41am.

Your responses are always so intelligent..... Puzzled

“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
Elbert Hubbard


The name-calling technique
links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol. The propagandist who uses this technique that appeals to our emotions rather than to our reason hopes that the audience will reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative symbol, instead of looking at the available evidence. Sad

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

“Politics: 'Poli' a Latin word meaning 'many'; and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures.'” (Robin Williams?)

“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell


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Submitted by sniffles5 on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:31am.

I've shown everyone in my post above that regardless of what his church believes (and what you insinuate), Barack Obama does not support reparations.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

Or do you think that by simply capitalizing the word "WRONG" that you've somehow discredited my argument?

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Submitted by Denise Conner on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:49am.

“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell

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Submitted by sniffles5 on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 8:00am.

I'm still waiting, Dense!

Despite those oh-so-handy googling skillz of yours, you seem singularly unable to dredge up a single statement by Barack Obama indicating his support for reparations.

Why do you suppose that is?
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