The closing prayer of Obama’s inauguration as president was made by Reverend Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader who led the march on Selma in 1965 and helped to lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. He closed the prayer this way:
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day
when black will not be asked to get in back,
when brown can stick around …
when yellow will be mellow …
when the red man can get ahead, man; and
when white will embrace what is right.
That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.
Lowery is playing off of an old saying, a piece of bitter humour, that I have heard for years to go like this:
If you’re white you’re all right,
If you’re brown stick around,
If you’re black stand back!
In answer to Lowery’s prayer Rush Limbaugh on his radio show said this, in part:
Then we have, “When white will embrace what is right.” He’s just insulted this country, large numbers of which elected Barack Obama president of the United States….
I know it’s a leftover sixties thing. It could be a Led Zeppelin lyric for all I know, but the point is, it’s not relevant. It’s not relevant to today! Everybody here is living in the past, and they don’t want anybody to think we’ve made any progress at all despite inaugurating Barack Obama as president today …
These are tactics, these are political tactics employed by the left to secure power, and they’ll never give it up. And while they’re the ones out there practicing all this racism and groupthink and victimization, they’re blaming people like me for it. And it’s just a shame. It’s just a shame.
Limbaugh thinks Lowery is living in the past because racism is over? That racism is just something the left keeps alive to win votes?
Words fail me.
This is the same Rush Limbaugh who played the song “Barack the Magic Negro” on his show. But racism is over.
This is the same Rush Limbaugh who said slavery was a good thing because it kept the streets safe at night. But racism is over.
This is the same Rush Limbaugh who said that Martin Luther King’s killer should get a medal of honour. But racism is over.
This is the same Rush Limbaugh who told a black female caller to take the bone out of her nose and call him back. But racism is over.
This is the same Rush Limbaugh who called Obama, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, an “affirmative action candidate” .
But racism is over.
Rush Limbaugh has at least 13 million listeners, making his show the biggest talk show on American radio.
Reverend Lowery may be an old man, but he is not living in the past. Far from it.
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WTF, at least El Rushbo is constitutionally qualified to be President!
Rush Limbaugh was born in 1951 to an American mom “Millie” and an American dad lawyer & WWII fighter pilot in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Since ‘President’ Obama now wants to silence El Rushbo even before BHO has a chance to re-establish the “fairness doctrine” to silence all conservative talk radio, I’ve got three questions (but answers to only two of them):
FIRST QUESTION: Who IS the actual and lawful 44th President of the USA?
ANSWER: Joe Biden
Biden was initially the Acting President for at least 5 minutes under either the Constitution’s Article 2 or the Constitution’s 20th Amendment, from 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, having already taken his Oath of Office and before Obama completed his ‘oath’ at approximately 12:05 PM, 1/20/09. Under the 20th Amendment if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, or alternatively under Article 2 if the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term, being 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, which ability and/or qualification includes that he take the Article 2 oath “before he enter on the execution of his office,” then either the Presidency shall devolve on the Vice President under Article 2 or the Vice President shall act as President under the 20th Amendment. (The importance of the oath in ‘commencing’ an ‘Obama Presidency’ — rather than merely the 1/20/09 Noon time — is confirmed by the re-take of the ‘oath’ by Obama at the White House on 1/21/09 after the first ‘oath’ was NOT administered by Justice Roberts NOR recited by Obama in the words as required under Article 2.)
This is significant because at such time that the Supreme Court finally rules on the merits on Obama’s disqualification as not being an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (clearly he is NOT under either and/or both of two bases — (1) BHO refuses to show Birth Certificate to deny Kenyan birth/res ipsa loquitur “action speaks for itself” or (2) BHO admits dad was Kenyan/British, not American, citizen at Jr’s birth), Biden’s automatic status (without needing to take a separate Presidential Oath) of being President would be predicated upon four different bases: First, having been Vice President under Article 2; second, having been Vice President-elect under the 20th Amendment; third, having been actual President in the hiatus before Obama took the ‘oath(s)’; and fourth, retroactively deemed President during the full period of the Obama usurpation so that the acts of the Federal Government under the usurpation can be deemed authorized and/or ratified by Biden’s legitimacy.
SECOND QUESTION: Who will be the 45th President?
ANSWER: Hillary Clinton
One must assume that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been aware of all of the above. Biden’s wife recently “let the cat out of the bag” on the Oprah Show that both Biden and Hillary had considered alternatively Veep or Secretary of State, in either case, setting up Hillary to be President on a vote of the Democratic Congress if need be.
THIRD QUESTION: Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika or a knowing participant?
ANSWER: Not yet determined.
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Ted: Right. And the Federal government does not have the power to levy income tax. Have you had your morning cryssie yet?
Agabond: Don’t forget this was the same Fox news that used “Obama’s baby mama” in reference to Michelle Obama.
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Funny
Bold
True
I enjoyed the prayer.
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Me too.
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Rush Limbaugh is the type of person who would spread hatred of people of Color in order to get already bigoted and color-blind bigots all riled up. He’s been up his task for 20 years and he’s mad because President Obama is president instead of McCain. He feels threatened and resentful because the Euro element is decreasing demographically and that they’re no longer dominant in the world.
La Reyna
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I enjoyed the prayer. The Rev. was obviously being playful, using the opportunity of being on the national stage to inject a bit of old school flavor into a mainstream event.
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Rush Limbaugh is a very useful idiot … for educational purposes! He’s the personification of present day (racists) white supremacists who aren’t garbed in a “visibly white sheet.”
Whenever any confused person states that overt racism no longer exists in the US, PoC can easily point to this ridiculous blowhard of stupidity, the poster boy of hate and white supremacy, Rush Limbaugh.
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Obama says his “recovery plan will include UNPRECEDENTED measures that will allow the American people to hold [his] administration ACCOUNTABLE” yet Obama refuses to be held ACCOUNTABLE to the same American people for his UNPRECEDENTED refusal to show his actual birth certificate.
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Did George Bush show us his actual birth certificate? Or John McCain? Why in the world do you doubt that Obama is American?
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McCain did. The usual suspects tried to engineer a controversy based on his being born in the Panama Canal Zone. Of course, there was no there there: both his parents were American citizens, and the PCZ was a US territory at the time.
Not so with Obama. The father, a foreign subject (and already married), and the mother, a minor.
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If you are born in America you are American. Only if you are born overseas does it matter what the citizenship of your parents are. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. It was even a state then. So what is the big deal?
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There’s a possibility (not a certainty) he was born in Kenya.
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Limbaugh never said the things about King’s killer or slavery keeping the streets safe.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp
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