Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., walked by a painting depicting an American Indian after an appearance at the UNITY ’08 Convention in Chicago.
Obama notes ‘tragic’ US past
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
American history’s “sad” aspects require action, the senator tells cheering journalists
Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists yesterday, stopped short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to American Indians but said the country should acknowledge its history of poor treatment of certain ethnic groups.
“There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we’ve got some very sad and difficult things to account for,” Obama told hundreds of attendees of UNITY ’08, a convention of four minority journalism associations.
The Hawaii-born senator, who has told local reporters that he supports the federal recognition bill for native Hawaiians drafted by U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, noted other ethnic groups but did not mention native Hawaiians when answering a question about his thoughts on a formal U.S. apology to American Indians.
“I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged,” the Democratic presidential hopeful said.
“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”
Obama, who appeared tired in his first major appearance since returning Saturday from a 10-day trip abroad, met with a receptive audience at the Chicago convention. Some journalists had waited three hours for the 40-minute appearance.
The group had expected Obama and Sen. John McCain to speak on Thursday night, but because of scheduling conflicts, only Obama could attend yesterday morning’s talk.
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
The Illinois senator talked about his trip overseas, reiterating his opinion that violence is down in Iraq but worsening in Afghanistan. And he expressed his approval of the Senate’s passage of a major housing bill to help homeowners avert foreclosure.
Obama, who acknowledged that he needed a nap, stood up to say farewell to the audience of journalists, many of whom gave him another standing ovation.
Wild Thing’s comment………
This was an article from Monday, July 28, 2008, Obama speaking about reparations. Obama is the 21st century code-talker. Every person in that room understood reparations were being promised.
“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”
Deeds, eh? So, let’s see, trillions spent on welfare programs, taxpayer-funded but government-run education systems, “affirmative” actions programs at the expense of white people, Black History months, set-asides for minority contractors, “diversity” awareness, and of course 620,000 dead white guys in the Civil War which ended slavery in this country centuries ago, before any of our grandparents were even around. Isn’t that enough for this ‘Rat-brain? I guess not.
Obama really does despise the United States. Hussein you pinko schmuck ……America has nothing to be ashamed of…and much to be proud of!!!
The only thing tragic about the US is the fact that Obama has the right of Free Speech where he can go tear down everything we stand for!!!-There in lies the real tradgedy!! Obama the hood rat punk – He is such a jerk surely the American People can see thru this loser!!!
Yes, the tragedy is that we have such poor candidates running for public office these days. Self serving people whose purpose and character is so far removed from Our Founding Fathers who were willing to sacrifice all. Now it is popular to patronize extreme minority groups and belittle the average middle class taxpayer.
If Obama wants to blame anyone for past deeds first look at his roots in Africa, the greatest slave traders in the world, even today. Then look at the slavery positions taken by the United States Democrat party that fostered the breakaway anti slavery wing of that party commonly known as the Republican party. Further look no farther than Congress for establishing and maintaining a separate and special cabal of treating the blacks as something other than just another American. Congress, of which Obama touts as being a part of, keeps treating blacks as victims to elicit their vote so they can administer the distribution of wealth and property stolen from the productive to maintain their ‘slaves’. This victim bullshit has worn itself out with me a long time ago.
Nancy Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama are grand masters of arrogance and elitism. The Speaker of the House thinks that she is divinely destined to save the planet from the negative global warming impact of escalating carbon footprint by the unfeeling and selfish energy addicted evil American public.
The Democrat President wannabe hates and despises everything that white America has ever done or stands for and sees himself as the only one capable of changing the imperfect country into what he and the black and liberal communities think that it should be. Damn the writers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. They messed up big time.
Barack Obama sees himself as the only one, a messiah some would say, who can change the America that did many bad and evil things into his own image of what a Socialist African-American and Black Liberation more perfect country should be.
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Yes, we have had tragedy, as has the rest of the world, but as George Burns said in “Oh God” to John Denver, “you can’t have the happy without the sad.”
The past is gone, so all we can do is learn from it to keep from making those mistakes over and over again like the dummys keep doing.
Cheryl……now I love that statement.
“The only thing tragic about the US is the fact that Obama has the right of Free Speech”
Tom, yes, I wonder if these people can ever see what our Founding Fathers were about or have they closed their hearts and souls to why America has been such a great country. I know the left sure has but God help us if the few Republicans in government forget too.
Jack for me too, it stinks to high heaven!
I was sick of it years ago too, and hoped it would go away. I never liked the woe is me thing anyway and this stuff gets old fast.
Les, yes Pelosi and Obama agenda ridden and darn I want to have them voted out asap. And never to be heard of again.
LOL those are ingteresting graphics haha
Lynn, yes and he just can’t find anything to be happy about with our country. It has been waht now almost two years or something since this campaign began and not once I can think of he bragged about America in anyway.