2008 Election Cover-Ups

WHAT GIVES? OBAMA DOUBLE-STANDARD ON RACIAL UNDERSTANDING

Obama demanded Lott resignation

The WorldDailyNet reports that while Sen. Barack Obama said he couldn't over throw his friend and pastor of 20 years for a racially charged and divisive hate speech, but apparently 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. Below is a summary of details:

• 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."
• Eight days later, Lott of Mississippi stepped down as majority leader – not president of the Senate. He had been under fire for his endorsement of Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign at the South Carolina senator's 100th birthday party.
• But Obama delivered a nationally televised speech from Philadelphia Tuesday in which he addressed his own association problem – explaining his connections to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a Chicago preacher of Afro-centrism with an anti-American and anti-white spin.
• Obama denounced Wright's statements, saying: "But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice.
• Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."
• He characterized them as "divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems."

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Our Take

Obama needs to be taken to task for his past views if we are to believe any of his current ones. What he said back then should be consistent with what we are getting now and that does not appear to be the case. This double standard of Obama's something the electorate needs to be aware of come this November.