For Immediate Release:
Philip J. Berg, Esquire
555 Andorra Glen Court, Suite 12
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2531
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Philip J. Berg, Esq. Calls for Barack Obama
To Withdraw His Candidacy For President
Due To His Association With Reverend Wright
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 03/25/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, faxed a letter on 03/19/08 to Senator Obama requesting that he withdraw his candidacy for President for the best interests of the Democratic Party and the citizens of the United States.
The essence of the letter dealt with Obama’s lies, hypocrisy, lack of transparency and while using ”words,” the lack of real meaning.
Philip J. Berg, Esquire stated the following in the letter faxed to Senator Obama:
March 19, 2008
Hon. Barack Obama
Barack For President
233 N. Michigan Avenue, 11th Floor
Chicago, Illinois
By Fax (312) 819-2089
Re: It is to time to Withdraw your Candidacy for President
Dear Senator Obama:
I read your speech that you gave in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008 that was posted on your website, “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” I tried to hear your speech in person, but I was turned away because I did not have a ticket.
Yes, you are an eloquent speaker, but there is more than “words” that make up a person.
For the following reasons, I believe that for the best interest of the Democratic Party and the citizens of the United States, you should withdraw your candidacy for President of the United States.
I am a minority, Jewish and white; I am also a Life Member of the NAACP, so I know I can speak out on this most important issue.
The issue of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is so outrageous that it is time for you to stop the façade and withdraw. Personally, I am offended by the Reverend’s remarks regarding anti-Semitism and anti-America.
And the transparency you speak about, yes “words,” well in a turnabout you showed your true colors by blatantly lying this past Friday evening when you said on several networks that you were never in a pew when Reverend Wright uttered divisive words. In your speech in Philadelphia you stated, “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.”
What hypocrisy!
You have the audacity to state how Reverend Jeremiah Wright has influenced you throughout the last twenty [20] years, yet you would deceitfully state that you were not aware of his extreme positions, including anti-American words, yes “words” !
Yes, you have been aware of the potential problems with your relationship with Reverend Wright as you specifically excluded him from your announcement for President.
Can you be honest with the people who have supported you ? I guess not because you are not a man of your words.
As you stated in your speech, “This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.” It is apparent that the only task you had was to put together a campaign of promises without solutions by saying, change and yes we can. Can what ?
Unfortunately, and probably because you are African-American, you were not put under the microscope like other candidates. You talk about how you built your campaign when you said further in your speech, “Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.” However, as we now see, you are not as transparent as you stated.
I really doubt that the following remark by you will stand, that being, “Not once in my conversations with him [Reverend Wright] have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect.”
And I do not think that your remark that, “We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.” is on the same level.
I agree with you when you stated, “…race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.” However, You have now shown that you cannot be the leader that our country needs.
You went on to say, “This is where we are right now. It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy – particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.” I do agree that your candidacy is “imperfect.”
And to “continue on the path of a more perfect union,” yes, we must work together, but I know that you are not the one to lead the challenge !
Please, do the right thing for the Democratic Party and our country that you say you love so much and withdraw your candidacy for President. It is the right thing to do !
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Philip J. Berg
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Philip J. Berg, Esq.
