Posted on 03/18/2008 7:30:10 AM PDT by 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.
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He doesn’t understand the problem isn’t what particular crazy hatred Wright says. It’s Obama keeps going back for more and more of this hatred. It’s Obama’s total lack of judgment that is the problem. Running for president and continuing to go to the hate speeches and then claiming you know nothing, ala Sargent Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes, sad.
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You nailed it. Kind of like Bill CLinton's MOVE ON (www.moveon.org).
He's a smart politician, then!
Cough, cough, cough, bullsh!t cough, cough
The conservative response probably shouldn't be to keep beating the J. Wright horse, but to now attack exactly what he said---that the schools SUCK (and why is that, after what has been, essentially, 60 years of Dem policies?), that we've lost a lot of factory jobs (and why is that, after MI and OH have wrapped themselves in Dem policies that make us utterly uncompetitive?), and that health care is expensive (and why is that, given that we've demonized the drug compnaies and allowed John Edwards and the trial lawyers to sue doctors for everything they have?). This is where the battle can move, to POLICY, where now, instead of just criticizing the Dems, we can show how our policies WORK and theirs don't.
The ironic thing about “moveon.org” was their inability to “moveon” beyond florida 2000.
It’s clever all right. But I don’t know if I can believe it. It sounds good. but I don’tknow if it is just a matter of trying to be all things for all people in an effort to get elected or if it is meant sincerely. And I haven’t seen a plan as to how to get there from here. The great Chameleon.
“Four score and seven years ago.........”
EXACTLY!!! Prior to this, he 'claimed' he had only heard 'one or two' of those hateful, venomous and racist comments.
I would suggest preparing yourselves for the MSM heralding this as equivalent to Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech. And if truth be told, it is a decent speech.
But it still does not make up for the reprehensible statements of Obama’s pastor and Obama’s failure to take action. Not because he doesn’t go as far as he possibly can in a speech to distance himself from Wright. It does not “fix” this simply because it is not fixable. Wright is certainly entitled to his opinion and to the free expression of it. But it is hateful. It is divisive. It is racist.
Obama should have left the church and Jeremiah Wright long ago. Mentor or not.
Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.
Einstein was brilliant as was anything he said in his sleep, obama is mediocre at best.
It was stained by this nation?s original sin of slavery (text from Obama’s speech) Original Sin of Slavery..did not begin in America..duh Obama.... It began in Africa... read the Bible..ask Moses...
“we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity”
From the party that divided the nation over a war which would inevitably need to be fought for our very existence we get lectured on the need for unity...
Now isn’t that the Pot calling the Kettle a Pot....
Actually, a lot of people are at work or need to get there. What appears to be a broad-themed speech may not be sufficient to allay the concerns of many who want to know how in the world he got caught up in this hate cult.
It's also interesting that the man who had reservations about wearing a flag pin on his lapel, now has eight beautiful flags on stage.
Well...yeah...THAT is the elephant in the room.....why are people DEMOCRATS!!!!!?????? Their policies NEVER work...like the Socialism he espouses.
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