SubscribeObama Gets History Wrong Again - At Selma
From (of all places) ABC News:
The Obama Myth: Factual Discrepancies to the Selma Claim
03/05/07 - Selma, AL
by Jake Tapper, ABC News
Sunday’s march in Selma, Ala., may have been a sacred commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march of 1965, but beneath it all lurked raw politics, with Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., competing fiercely for black voters.
While local churches were packed with parishioners, just a few hundred yards apart on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, the rival Democratic presidential candidates made their pitches, both praising civil rights leaders for paving their way.
“Don’t tell me I’m not coming home when I come to Selma, Ala. I’m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I’m here because y’all sacrificed for me,” Obama told a crowd.
Meanwhile, at 709 Martin Luther King St., Clinton told parishioners at First Baptist Church that “the Voting Rights Act gave more Americans from every corner of our nation the chance to live out their dreams. And it is the gift that keeps on giving. Today it is giving Sen. Obama the chance to run for president of the United States. And by its logic and spirit, it is giving the same chance to [New Mexico] Gov. Bill Richardson, an Hispanic. And, yes, it is giving me that chance, too.”
Black voters are crucial for both front-runners as their campaigns calculate the math that will lead to their nominations. The fierce competition between the two was not only evident in their presence this weekend, but in the the steps they took to connect with the crowds.
Raised in Illinois and representing New York, Clinton effected a sporadic but curious Southern drawl in her speech. “I” became “Ahhh,” “far” morphed into “fahhhr,” and “mayor” suddenly sounded like “mare.”
And how about Obama? Well, he credited the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights marchers of 1965 with the fact that his parents — a black African father and white Kansas mother — were empowered to fall in love and got married.
“They looked at each other and they decided, ‘We know that in the world, as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child, but something is stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across the bridge.’ And so they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Ala.!”
Obama was born in 1961; the Selma march was four years later. Obama said later that he meant to credit the entire civil rights movement with his parents’ union, not just the Bloody Sunday marchers…
Funny how Mr. Obama’s mistakes about history call ot mind our first black President’s memories of seeing black churches burning in his youth.
Meanwhile, the cries of outrage at these two politicians illegally race-baiting pandering campaigning in these black churches are deafening, aren’t they?
What a circus.
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March 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
The key problem you present here (and in the Hillary posting from Selma) is that these people are still living in their media aiding and abetting past and have failed to acknowledge that the InterNet and library - denounce and renounce most of what they screed about. And we all have the proof and education to show them for the liars they are.
And of course his audience was too busy shouting Amen! Unhuh! and You Go (or whatever) to do a simple math problem to figure out he is lying through his teeth.
‘Of course all politicians lie. . .’
March 5th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I suppose The Big O will now pay reparations to himself. Or perhaps, he should pay them to the “first black president”.
Will all the liberals whose ancestors owned slaves come out of the woodwork now and provide cover for Obama?
Two civil wrongs don’t make a civil right.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Obama is the quintessential Bi candidate; He is Bi racial, Bi cultural, Bi religious, Bi ethnic, Bi…., curious how the press lists him as all things to all people. Sorry but I’m just not Buyin it.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Said it before, I’ll say it again. Obama has all the qualities I’d look for if I was buying a puppy, Hilary has no qualities whatsoever, except maybe for endurance, having remained “married” to Bill for so many years but either of them would be an absolute disaster as president -Jimmy Carter would look like George Washington compared to these turkeys.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Did you know somewhere in this ’speech’ BO mentioned that the Kennedy African airlift is what brought the Obama family to America? This guy is like Kerry, in that he can’t help himself and just relies on the media to keep his wrong, lies, stupid remarks hidden.
dwic - ‘two civil wrongs don’t make a civil right.’ LOL that is priceless.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Reminds me of the story of Mrs. Clinton meeting Sir Edmond Hillary..and explaining that she was named after him…unfortunately, at the time she was born Hillary was still a chicken farmer, it was not until Hillary was about 8 years old that Sir Edmond climed Everest.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Careful now… by speaking the truth, you risk getting on Robert Greenwald’s “Obama hit list” like Fox News.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Obamayomama seems to have a problem with obeying the law.
What a guy!!!
Do they teach skipping out on parking tickets at his church?
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