In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity:“People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend’s voice up into the rafters..."
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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Please tell me that this song and dance is not playing in Peoria.
In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity:“People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend’s voice up into the rafters..."
“we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.”
Ok, now i feel faint. Someone please get me some water
Affirmative action in choosing POTUS.
Wow... how far we have come.
They outnumber us and if they can be conned into voting for him, it may well be the end of our nation. PRAY!
I agree. Good speech but it’s effect will be small on the appalled millions.
This speech will go over good with his core supporters. Moderates are not going to buy it this is not going away.
She's a white lady and we know that they are people of priviledge. < /s >
Comments like this genuinely offend for another reason. My great-great grandfather went to war to end slavery. If my ancestors never owned slaves and put their lives on the line to end slavery, how exactly does this "original sin" argument apply to me?
He's right. Words are just words. They can be spoken at any time. Before OR after the dukie has hit the fan. Actions take time and much more effort and offer a more truer understanding of a man's character.
I still want him to be the nom - we’ll beat him (even if it is McCain that we beat him with) like a red-headed stepchild.
So did I.
Just don’t take away my second ammendment rights so I can get down with that struggle when it happens....
I think Hillary is weaker.
But just wait until she “obamas” McCain. It could be rough.
[bowing to you]
Nobody plays the unplayed race card better. Or is it vice versa?
Let's get him to swear to tell the truth before Congress and see how long he stands by that claim.
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