Farrakhan Warns: Don’t Hamstring Obama
From an equally jubilant Associated Press:
Farrakhan says Obama draws a ‘oneness of spirit’
By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press Writer Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO – Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said in an address Sunday celebrating Barack Obama that the new president-elect has a God-given capacity to handle any burdens he’ll face as the nation’s leader.
Farrakhan added that Obama will be able to make positive changes only with help from “God and people of goodwill,” and he urged followers of the Chicago-based black nationalist movement to do their part.
“President-elect Obama has energized all segments of the depressed, downtrodden, rejected and despised,” he said in a 90-minute speech at Mosque Maryam on the city’s South Side. “Now it is up to us to take the new energy that he has given us … and channel that energy into making ourselves better.”
Dressed in intricately decorated red and gold robes and a matching fez, the once-ailing 75-year-old leader spoke to more than 1,000 followers in an address called “America’s New Beginning: President-elect Barack Obama.”
Farrakhan, who said Obama draws a “oneness of spirit” from all people, admitted he stayed quiet about his support for Obama during the past few months out of fear his words would harm the Illinois senator’s bid for the White House.
In February, Farrakhan praised Obama, calling him “the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better” at a Saviours’ Day event in Chicago…
On Sunday, Farrakhan said Obama faced unfair scrutiny for his associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, who was shown making fiery statements about the U.S. government in widely circulated video clips. Obama was also criticized because of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Chicago priest who mocked Clinton at Wright and Obama’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ.
“For nine months, I kept quiet because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man at our Saviours’ Day convention and the way they were misused,” Farrakhan said of Obama. “I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others.”
Farrakhan then added with a smile, “I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart.”
He thanked black leaders including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, for laying the foundation for Obama’s victory, which he called Divine…
This AP article does not do the Reverend Minister Farrakhan’s words justice, by any means.
In fact, it (like the rest of the media reports on today’s Farrakhan’s speech) gives an opposite impression from what Farrakhan actually said.
For Minister Farrakhan’s remarks boil down to an outright threat to anyone who would oppose Mr. Obama in any fashion. He begins this tack about 40 minutes in.
Watch the clip above, or if that does not work for you, go the Nation Of Islam’s website and watch it there.
Or you can listen to audio clip excerpts via YouTube here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
But hold on to your sanity.
Each day gets worse with this buffonery. Yet Bush is the Happy Warrior who will continue to be the class act he has always been while this man child ascends to the most spectacular job in the world. I actually went to their website and sat through this with of course some sherry that my cousin brought back for me from Jerez de Frontera, Spain (the true Sherry region as anyone who is a true Sherry afectionado (sp?) should know-and none of that sweet stuff (IE: Cream Sherry) either. I would recommend that if you sit through this “message of hope” you have either a pitcher, blender, keg or bottle of some other fortified wine to keep you from tearing your hair out.
Well, better get some H2O into my system, feel a massive headache coming on.
@catie,
Believe it or not, I find liberals constantly wanting to rehash the arguments over McCain. I congratulate them and tell them I’ve accepted Obama and let’s move on. And they say, “oh, so you’re not willing to admit you were wrong?” And then it starts again.
Enough!
I am find with the Obama we saw this week — he’s acting very conservative. Let’s see how long it lasts.
The flood gates are open and now all of Obama’s far left constituents are coming out of the closet. I think we are up for a wild ride as the middle class is rebuilt with entitlements. Of course he is not rebuilding anything just redistributing wealth and creating a larger welfare society.
I propose that the Get Drunk Site have a family reunion next year in a city to be determined. We all need therapy, but we’re conservatives, so we can’t go to a shrink.
I don’t think it should be called a “family reuinion.”
More like “rehab”.
Okay, just don’t invite Amy Winehouse.
But…but…she knows how to start the party!
“Or you can listen to audio clip excerpts via YouTube here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.”
Um, thank you, but no.
Hi. I’m Celina and I am going to be an alcoholic.
Response: Hi Celina… when did you determine you were going to be an alcoholic? lol
4 year hangover… and now She is back.. Hillary that is.. ohh god please!! nooo!!
My guess it is Emanuel’s Idea. To lay down a little more disrespect to the people.. cause they can.
Well put me down for the family reunion. I will bake a cake. What will everyone else bring?
Rum.
@Latinos-I’ll bring a blender too.
Catie — Keep in touch if I disappear from this site! bronzepage@gmail.com .