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- joaob, on 03/19/2008, -11/+316After lasting only 7 minutes on the front page it has now been removed. Thank goodness for screen capture.
- DeadElephantORG, on 03/19/2008, -28/+303THAT IS SO ***** OUTRAGEOUS. I can't ***** believe it. I just watched that speech and I'm crying with gratitude for Obama's courage in speaking directly to the unutterable racial pain in our culture. It's an historic speech of healing. And THEN I see that reprehensible headline, and suddenly the bigoted and self-serving source of our dissension and hatred is laid bare.
Way to be the problem, CNN. Way to be the problem. - NameTry2468, on 03/19/2008, -12/+197Hahaha! You have GOT to be ***** me! Wow, CNN...
- thejimmyo, on 03/19/2008, -7/+170I think that the speech was a brilliant indictment of how we oversimplify complex issues and obsess over fast and easy soundbytes. Things like this worry me that CNN, MSNBC and FOX will just be searching for words and phrases that people can raise their voices and argue over.
- azpat, on 03/19/2008, -8/+168It is stained by the sin of slavery. I have no problems with that statement. Everyone here who is proud of the 400 years of slavery this nation practiced raise your hand! Yet we're proud of America. Why? Mostly because of the constitution and the system of Government provided by that "god-damned piece of paper" (as George Bush put it (how is that not as bad as saying "God Damn America")). A system which was able to correct itself, ammend the constitution and end slavery in this nation. But never the less the stain lingers.
There's nothing at all wrong with that statement.
However, CNN clearly took it out of context to be sensationalist. Out of all the important topics he raised in that speech this one line is what the headline with?
that pisses me off not as an Obama supporter, but as a thinking man. Some politician challenges me to think about issues such as white resentment, black anger, affirmative action, globalization, immigration, etc and that one line is what CNN thinks best describes the speech?
Not only is that insulting to me as an American, and a person with an IQ above 2, but it's also wrong. It doesn't capture the central message of the speech. It doesn't even capture any of the supporting arguments of the speech. A 5th grader could do a better job getting the "main idea" of the speech. CNN has never written a book report?
As the 4th branch of government, that's unacceptable. That's just ***** completely unacceptable. Seriously, CNN doesn't have anyone with a 5th grade reading comprehension level? Either they're completely ***** inept, or they're a peice of ***** tabloid without even the thrill of naked chicks on page 3.
This isn't an Obama story, it's a media story. The media is trying to ***** with you. It may be "what they do" but we don't have to take it. Dugg for truthiness. - PatrickStankard, on 03/19/2008, -2/+108Mirror: http://i31.tinypic.com/24dmt1c.jpg
- DeadFox1, on 03/19/2008, -9/+108OMG. thankyou, Clinton News Network.
- matt70, on 03/19/2008, -5/+95As a middle-aged white guy, I'm glad he came out and said it. Those who know their history know that many of our forefathers felt the same way. Franklin and Adams (John and Sam) were vocal critics of slavery. In fact, ten of thirteen states had already outlawed it at the time of the Constitutional Convention.
- 4tygames, on 03/19/2008, -2/+79Mirror:
http://image.bayimg.com/dajgiaabd.jpg - inactive, on 03/19/2008, -10/+77Sensationalism at it's finest.
I can see it now, one candidate will say something like "Who would have a desire to kill children?" and it will hit a site's front page as "Candidate X discusses desires to kill children!" - SickMonkey, on 03/19/2008, -6/+68CNN is pathetic. When Obama won Wyoming, they were the last news site to post the story, and when they did, they buried it in small type halfway down the page. They also have grossly skewed the delegate count towards Hillary by 25-50+ over the actual numbers.
- tomlasusa, on 03/19/2008, -8/+66Opponents and advesaries are no doubt salivating over the fact that he sat in the congregation and heard his pastor make 'volatile statements' -- which he of course disagreed with. Just as Obama pointed out, on any given Saturday or Sunday a pastor, priest or rabbi is liable to utter some strong comments to those listening. Does everyone abandon their churches when they hear them?
- joaob, on 03/19/2008, -9/+64Share this out. Let's expose them.
- zdiddy85, on 03/19/2008, -0/+52please stop using imageshack.
- arajan, on 03/19/2008, -5/+52great job dude!! i started off being ambivalent about CNN but now am sure they are knee-deep with the clintons. this was just another example. BTW there will be numerous attempts by many many people/channels to quote BO's speech out of context, which is why we need to ensure that maximum people read/see the whole speech.
- shadoturtl, on 03/19/2008, -8/+53making fox news look legitimate one page view at a time.
- matt70, on 03/19/2008, -6/+50Actually Elle, I'm proud he said it. Jefferson knew it. Franklin knew it. Adams knew it. The outrage comes because, taken out of context of the rest of the speech, it appears to be something it is not.
- martalli, on 03/19/2008, -3/+37Three words completely out of context. I could quote you "outraged at CNN". Isn't that what you said? I guess you are a strong Obama supporter now by your quote.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/19/2008, -0/+34Can I get a mirror?
- Dr00pieS, on 03/19/2008, -3/+34BLACK is the new president...bitches
- katorga, on 03/19/2008, -2/+33Umm. The Constitution was stained by the sin of slavery. The framers knew it when they wrote it. The framers who were against it left clear written accounts of this. It is why Lincoln referred to us as an "almost chosen people". More than half the nation resisted slavery for decades, and in the end went to war and paid the blood debt to end it. They abolished it and eventually fixed the document. The Radical Republicans forced through the civil rights acts in 1866, 1871 and 1875, and enforced voting rights at gunpoint to try enforce the constitution. So exactly how is Mr. Obama's statement incorrect or incendiary?
- FcukAllYall, on 03/19/2008, -7/+32WTF CNN...did U HEAR the speech on your own network? I guess the ***** not! Dumbass media
- ryanwritescopy, on 03/19/2008, -0/+24Lincoln: "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here."
--As seen on CNN in 1863 - stupidStan, on 03/19/2008, -6/+28way to back up your comment with any sort of logical thought process or justification
- replaysMike, on 03/19/2008, -7/+28WTH CNN? That was the best speech I've heard in a long time, very presidential. Looks like someone is getting fired!
- nakile, on 03/19/2008, -10/+31Strange. I thought everybody liked CNN a few hours ago?
http://digg.com/politics/POLL_Majority_of_Democrat ... - lava, on 03/19/2008, -3/+23Wow, I don't care much about MSM bias, but that's pretty bad. I happened to glance at the speech, and out of all of that CNN's editors focused on that?
- theuniversal, on 03/19/2008, -4/+23Ell3: your reading/listening skills seem to be lacking. The headline is not a quote from Obama's speech. Check again.
Obama was talking about the past, that at the time of the convention the slavery issue divided the states and was unresolved. - jpesicka2, on 03/19/2008, -7/+26lol ok...if there was nothing wrong with it then why did they pull it?
- Nowheredan, on 03/19/2008, -3/+21I think you're missing the point.
First of all, the Constitution WAS stained by slavery.
Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."
Second, he's not saying that the US came up with slavery. He's saying that slavery was being practiced when the US was formed. Original sin, in Christian mythology, refers to the sins into which we are born - the US was born into slavery. - gsadamb, on 03/19/2008, -2/+20But the problem is that the headline doesn't at all capture the essence or point of his speech.
It'd be like saying "1984" was about the future of video display devices or something. - FcukAllYall, on 03/19/2008, -2/+19BREAKING NEWS: CNN, Fox & NewsMax have joined forces....after Scientology is destroyed, mabe they should be next
- qwerter, on 03/19/2008, -1/+18It most certainly was a part of the constitution. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution describes what is known as the "Three-fifths compromise" wherein all slaves were to be counted as three fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation.
The Thirteenth Amendment is what abolished slavery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_compromi ... - lovek, on 03/19/2008, -0/+17Looks the Colbert Report called them out on that very issue not 5 minutes ago. Hopefully they were paying attention.
- wexmajor, on 03/19/2008, -3/+18What? The issue isn't that the sentiment is inaccurate, it's that CNN completely misrepresented the speech. Judging by that title it sounds like Obama talked for half an hour about how much the Constitution sucks. He didn't do that. It was practically a throwaway comment.
- consonance, on 03/19/2008, -1/+16I am disgusted right now with CNN pulling that from Obama's speech, as if it were the most important component of what he said, as if it were the crux, the cornerstone of his speech. CNN should reprimand whoever thought it was appropriate to ignore his wish for racial harmony and his admittance of the truth of racial tensions in America, and reach for the one line that could be construed as anti-American. And being taken out of context like that is such a lowly fate for words with such high hopes. CNN should be ashamed. Their news is playing to all the controversies and distractions that Obama is trying so hard to tell us to ignore, and the best CNN can say is that Obama believes that the Constitution is stained. Indeed, I'll say it, too. The Consitution as it was written did hold the sin of slavery. That is fact. But for CNN to take such a petty road on a such a meaningful speech speaks volumes about what the channel really values in politics.
- nirav72, on 03/19/2008, -3/+18Why do you even bother posting? when no one will see..because its buried!
- sanman, on 03/19/2008, -5/+19Regarding the phrase "Clinton News Network", to paraphrase Olbermann,
"you are sounding like your opponent is the Democrat, and you are the Republican" - GinsuGuy585, on 03/19/2008, -9/+23Some editor somewhere should be shot.
- pintomp3, on 03/19/2008, -1/+13soundbites and out-of-context quotes FTL.
- ethamajin, on 03/19/2008, -0/+12wow indeed. CNN must be counting on the fact that their internet readers don't actually watch the content they cover =]
- Jadinlee, on 03/19/2008, -2/+14I'm all too happy to add CNN to my list of sites and news sources that I will no longer visit. I don't have time for tabloid journalism and won't waste my time on it. There are far too many excellent alternatives.
- archiesteel, on 03/19/2008, -0/+12Do you often make logically fallacious arguments like that?
- scotticus, on 03/19/2008, -1/+12Finish the quote and it isn't in the least troubling:
"Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time. " - jbdobd, on 03/19/2008, -4/+14Ell3 has never been known for her command of the English language.
- scotticus, on 03/19/2008, -1/+11more like elbow deep
- archiesteel, on 03/19/2008, -2/+12You mean, once the 13th amendment was added in 1865...Obama was clearly talking about the *original* constitution, which did not prevent slavery (though, as Obama himself noted, it could not reconcile it with its basic principles).
- SlipStream89, on 03/19/2008, -2/+12Did you guys see on the image that Miley Cyrus changed her name...
- viperrepiv, on 03/19/2008, -0/+10funny how they are doing the exact same thing he talked about....
- felman87, on 03/19/2008, -1/+11no one wants to read your dumbass blog
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