Well, his wife still thinks it will work.

1995:

"cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done."

- Barak "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" Obama

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The Christian Right has "hijacked the higher moral ground"

says the ex-bisexual, ex-crackhead, ex-muslime

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1995 Barack Obama: Mean, Cruel Times, Christian Right - Narrow Minded

By Terry Trippany March 7, 2008 - 10:02 ET

As reported by NewsBusters earlier, Michelle Obama debased America by characterizing it as a mean nation of "cynics, sloths, and complacents". Although this sort of talk is becoming a theme for Michelle-O she wasn't the first Obama to call America mean.

A similar sentiment was echoed by Barack Obama in 1995 as he tried to rally the African-American vote for his Senate run after the Million Man March.

"This doesn't suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn't important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren't legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."

"But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We've got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We've got communities to build." (t.t. - all emphasis mine)

READ IT ALL:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2008/03/07/1995-barack-obama-mean-cruel-times-christian-right-narrow-minded