“None of Our Hands Are Clean”

Says Obama, re healing divisions. Interesting speech, and an interesting tack to take while campaigning for black votes. I guess this means the Obama presidency will be doing away with laws, policies and programs that judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

In related Dem business:

Obama on ABC calls Bill’s attacks “troubling,” “not factually accurate.”

Meanwhile, leading Dems tell Bill to put a cork in it.

Topics: pols, racism

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:59 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2008

5 Responses to ““None of Our Hands Are Clean””

  1. RebeccaH Says:

    I give Obama credit for making the speech to a black audience. Doesn’t mean I trust him to stick to it.

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  3. The_Real_JeffS Says:

    How can you tell if Obama is lying?

    His lips are moving.

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  5. tanstaafl Says:

    None of Our Hands Are Clean

    WTF does that mean ?

    No one speaks for the cleanliness of my hands.

    And it’s is. The verb agrees with “none”, not hands.

    If you’re gonna pontificate, pontificate grammatically.

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