http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7026.htmlObama casts himself as civil rights successor By: Mike Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown
Nov 25, 2007
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DES MOINES — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) cast himself Sunday as a natural and necessary heir to the civil rights greats, appealing to black worshippers to show the courage of their forerunners and back his candidacy for president. In an unannounced appearance that startled most in the African-American congregation, Obama cast his campaign in historic and even divine terms.
He said that, like Moses, the civil rights pioneers had been to the mountaintop but did not reach the promised land, leaving it to today’s generation to finish the job, much as Joshua succeeded Moses.
“We have inherited this opportunity from the Moses generation ... who have teed it up for us,” he said.
“I didn’t have to go to jail. I haven’t had my head beat in — haven’t had dogs and fire hoses set on me. So I’m benefiting from what the Moses generation did. ...
A waffle, a flip-flop or ...what, exactly? *
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) cast himself Sunday as a natural and necessary heir to the civil rights greats, appealing to black worshippers to show the courage of their forerunners and back his candidacy for president. ORReporters on the campaign trail have noticed that Obama has begun throwing a line into his speeches about how he isn't running "to fulfill some long-held plan or because it was owed to me."http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/26/EDQPTFD5Q.DTL