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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Obama's big speech on race

Transcripts are up all over the place, from New York Times site to blogs. TPM gives him "A" on content but not usual "A" on delivery.... "I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election,” he said. I made that point a couple of months ago when Obama first surged and some scoffed....Apparently, we learn, he wrote the speech himself, over the past couple of days. The full speech:

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I watched it..then read it twice.
What was addressed..and more importantly how it was addressed..
was art ..in the sense that the challenge should make us feel uncomfortable.
If this person is unafraid to take on the hushed and not so hushed reality of United States race relations,;
then he is unafraid to be our President.

familyman said...

Wow. A politician that can write his own speech. And a great speech at that.