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Wow.
link to YouTube video of speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Reading this speech almost brought tears to my eyes.
Tears of a different sort--disbelief, rage--may be found in some of the comments to the WSJ's posting of this transcript:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union/?mod=googlenews_wsj
As the man says, his candidacy--even his Presidency, should he achieve it, which I now fervently hope--won't solve this problem. As some of those comments clearly demonstrate.
But _damn_, I admire his straightforward approach to actually hauling this out in the open.
link to YouTube video of speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Reading this speech almost brought tears to my eyes.
Tears of a different sort--disbelief, rage--may be found in some of the comments to the WSJ's posting of this transcript:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union/?mod=googlenews_wsj
As the man says, his candidacy--even his Presidency, should he achieve it, which I now fervently hope--won't solve this problem. As some of those comments clearly demonstrate.
But _damn_, I admire his straightforward approach to actually hauling this out in the open.