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Barack Obama, Check these out, Fixing the Problems, Jeremiah Wright, Language, Point of Interest, Politics, Waking Up »

[18 Mar 2008 | Comments | ]

I urge you to watch this speech in its entirety. You will be moved.

We the people of America cannot settle for racial politics as usual. Not this time.

Here is the text of his speech “A More Perfect Union”:
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across …

Barack Obama, Faith & Religion, Jeremiah Wright, Politics »

[18 Mar 2008 | Comments | ]

How’s he going to do it? How will Barack Obama reconcile the off-putting excerpts of Jeremiah Wright’s fire breathing oratory with his own peaceful, easy feeling vision of bringing our country together beyond the barriers that have existed since Plymouth Rock?
I think it’s impossible.
Barack Obama’s initial wishy-washy and overly parsed response to Wright’s most incendiary comments placed Obama right back in the box with the other presidential candidates. And that’s the campaign killer as I see it.
It is ironic that Obama until recently was called the “post-racial candidate.” I …