Obama lectures us on race, gender and equality. Obama's speech text

Drudge ^ | 3/18/2008 | Senator Obama

[Nutmeg08]

"A More Perfect Union" Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10:17:53 ET

“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 an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.

And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States.

[j. earl carter]

In the interest of brevity I was ignoring the nuances you point out. However, I will still disagree with you.

I look at it this way: The Republican party was formed as an abolitionist party. When a Republican got elected president, the southern states saw that the die had been cast and that things had changed, and they seceded. So, while the reason for the war was secession, it is also clear that the republican's desire to end slavery caused the secession to happen.

[nikos1121]

I didn’t hear it, but read it. so you think it’ll play in Peoria?

[Eva]

Here's a link to an article from the Intenational Herald Tribune from April 2007, that indicates that Obama knew full well what the Rev. JWright was all about. There is no controversy, just fact. The beliefs and tenets of the Trinity Church are part and parcel of who Obama is.

Obama's Search For Faith

[Gritty]

Obama's observation: Liberalism has completely failed to do what it was intended to do...

Obama's solution: We need lots and lots more of it...

Gritty's observation: I did not see one word in the speech about either the overriding requirement of applied individual character or application of genuine Biblical principles at any level to these problems (but I did see some phony ones, like "we are our brother's keeper")...

Gritty's solution: Therein lies both the root cause and solution to our current dilemma...

[wardaddy]

The second black man I’ve seen publicly scorn this....course Shelby is usually quite right.

Ted Williams on Great last nite surprised me by being pretty harsh on Wright and saying he torpedoed Obama...whom Ted did like.

But I noticed Leno and his band leader were still all Obama and hoping this would go away.

I chuckled about how they would react if this was about white racism....”wish it would go away”...lol

[cake_crumb]

"I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners..."

Conveniently neglecting to mention that HIS WIFE is married to a man who carries the blood of SLAVE OWNERS...but not of slaves. Surely an honest mistake (NOT)

[wardaddy]

that’s right...Hondo was about a river or something.

Hombre...Newman as an Indian half breed with a bandanna around his head who changes wardrobes to suit whichever race he is at the time and a broken down stagecoach surrounded by Richard Boone and some nasty peckerwoods and comancheros

[wardaddy]

That argument is for another thread. and there are plenty here on that already.

[wardaddy]

that is a good find

and from the IHT...a Wash Post org....hardly a Murdoch

[TheThinker]

It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams

That's exactly what most conservatives rightly believe, Barack.

[WOBBLY BOB]

The “Separation Proclamation”

[Eva]

I was under the impression that it was a NYT paper, because a portion of the exact same article appeared in the NYT on the same date, under a different by-line.

[nikos1121]

I’ve never seen Juan Williams as upset as he was and still is about Wright.

[cake_crumb]

Now we know why his campaign staff recommend he didn’t give it. He did anyway.

[Williams]

I turned the speech on for a second and he was going on about someone with cancer who lost their health care coverage. Believe me, I can sympathize with that situation but it certainly wasn’t anything soaring, sounded like the same old bleak view of America as a terrible place in which everyone is suffering and victimized by something. I’m sick of hearing that crap. Has Obama ever worked a day in his life?

[WOBBLY BOB]

Then a black man here decided one of his indentured servants should remain so for the rest of his life, and got a judge to agree! Out of that came slavery in the US.

The Casor decision, right?

[TheThinker]

or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

I think you just did speculate, Barack.

[oh8eleven]

It could be a blowout of Reagan/Carter proportions.
I didn't think Obama could get 51% of the vote to begin with.
Now that he's been exposed for the Hatriot that he is, I completely agree with you.

[RightWhale]

it was brilliant

The decision to air it out was excellent. The speech was simply touching the bases. Some topics are bound to draw forth high flying rhetoric. Credit for airing it out.

[wardaddy]

There are Muslim Caucazoids on his father’s side. I belive one paternal grandmother or great grandmother is Saudi.