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Obama lectures us on race, gender and equality. Obama's speech text
Drudge ^ | 3/18/2008 | Senator Obama

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; demagogue; jeremiahwright; macacamoment; nobama; obama; obama2008; race; racebaiting; racehustler; religiousleft; speech; thephillyspeech; transcript
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To: Vision

Please tell me that this song and dance is not playing in Peoria.


101 posted on 03/18/2008 8:09:56 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Nutmeg08
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..."


102 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:19 AM PDT by weegee (I hold out HOPE that neither Obama or Clinton will get the office to push thru their Marxist plans.)
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To: All
Charlatan
103 posted on 03/18/2008 8:10:29 AM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: F15Eagle

“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


104 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:00 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: freepertoo

Affirmative action in choosing POTUS.

Wow... how far we have come.


105 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:18 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes)
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To: nikos1121
If you read the rest of my comments you'll understand that I think the speech is outstanding. As to the man, we should fear his ability to mesmerize the crowd. I'm not talking about you and me, Im talking about the same sort of people who fell in love with Hitler. That would be SHEEPLE!

They outnumber us and if they can be conned into voting for him, it may well be the end of our nation. PRAY!

106 posted on 03/18/2008 8:12:01 AM PDT by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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To: whatshotandwhatsnot

I agree. Good speech but it’s effect will be small on the appalled millions.


107 posted on 03/18/2008 8:12:31 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: freepertoo

This speech will go over good with his core supporters. Moderates are not going to buy it this is not going away.


108 posted on 03/18/2008 8:12:33 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: PghBaldy
So he compares wRIGHT TO A WOMAN not in the public eye, who has caused no problems for anyone??? What a pig.

She's a white lady and we know that they are people of priviledge. < /s >

109 posted on 03/18/2008 8:12:57 AM PDT by weegee (I hold out HOPE that neither Obama or Clinton will get the office to push thru their Marxist plans.)
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To: freepertoo
His candidacy is over.
110 posted on 03/18/2008 8:13:27 AM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: AmericanMade1776
RE: It was stained by this nation?s original sin of slavery (text from Obama’s speech

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?

111 posted on 03/18/2008 8:14:05 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: Nutmeg08
"Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough."

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.

112 posted on 03/18/2008 8:14:07 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Vision

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.


113 posted on 03/18/2008 8:14:35 AM PDT by RockinRight (Supreme Court Justice Fred Thompson. The next best place for Fred.)
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To: LS
I thought it was brilliant.

So did I.

114 posted on 03/18/2008 8:14:39 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: oneolcop

Just don’t take away my second ammendment rights so I can get down with that struggle when it happens....


115 posted on 03/18/2008 8:14:41 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Standing by for the: if your not with us your a racist tactic.)
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To: RockinRight

I think Hillary is weaker.

But just wait until she “obamas” McCain. It could be rough.


117 posted on 03/18/2008 8:15:38 AM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: Blue Turtle; AmericanMade1776

[bowing to you]

Nobody plays the unplayed race card better. Or is it vice versa?


118 posted on 03/18/2008 8:15:56 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
"Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect."

Let's get him to swear to tell the truth before Congress and see how long he stands by that claim.

119 posted on 03/18/2008 8:16:00 AM PDT by weegee (I hold out HOPE that neither Obama or Clinton will get the office to push thru their Marxist plans.)
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To: All
I better get busy and start feeling the white man guilt.
That, and becoming poor. I wouldn't want anybody thinking that I actually work harder then they do!
120 posted on 03/18/2008 8:16:10 AM PDT by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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