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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This guy is such a fraud, don’t let off this issue. Obama wants to make an issue out of race, so let’s keep talking about his pastor, his church, and his willful acceptance of the anti-American philosophy.
Word.
You guys can attack this any way you want, but you're gonna get the same result. I'm around followers of his all day at a university. In their minds, he has "addressed this" and "moved on." Unless there is now a TAPE produced of him saying stuff like this, you will get the Clinton response. It's wasted effort.
and it won’t be called “no child left behind” either.
Bottom line the DEMS will love this speech and in the end it will be considered a home run by the media to much of Hillary's chagrin.
Agree...the white liberal kids who feel guilty about their white skin...will go “AWWWW” Obama feels the pain of white middle class Americans who are passed by with “affirmative action” ...he is so brillant to understand our white guilt and pain...and BAM right back in step with Obama’s grand plan of taking the White House.
Smooth of Obama to euate old Jerimiah to Geraldine Ferraro...LOL...now he has to fight the latest news about IMUS and those nappy headed hos....
Everytime Oprah’s Obama opens his mouth lately he reminds me of the stupidity of the American people.
I knew enough about Obama months ago.
All this was already out there.
So what if white libs come back to Masteof Guilt Obama.
They were his when from first hello as they say.
It’s that mushy middle of politcally ignorant whites who live from sound bite to news cycle we need to hit on LS.
And now this dog poo is on O’s jack sandal and it ain’t coming off quite like the MSM would like.
And meanwhile we get to see it go on and on with he and Hillary duking it out.
Note Bill Clinton’s lukewarm reply on it today: “I’m glad he said the speech, he need to”..more or less
I don’t know how you do it LS....when I was in colleg, I was the white liberal and staff was fairly right wing sans a few leftover freedom riders.
course when I was “liberal”, there was no gun control like now, no affimative acion really...Baake was just starting up, no attacks on Southernism, very little hostility from blacks execept Huey and Eldridge, no attacks on Christianity more less, no enviro nazis, little abortion
being a left then was mild unless one was a yippie but even they didn’t have some of this shite in their gunsights
being a lib kid in college in the south then meant pot, long hair, reasonable civil rights and punani.
fair enuff
Yeah, unfortunately you’re probably right.
One thing about all this is that it really highlights the power of good oratory. A good speech can move mountains in public opinion. I read a biography recently of William Wilberforce and was impressed that it was basically his speeches before parliament that drove England to abolish slavery. It’s too bad our side doesn’t have any great speakers on the scene these days, someone who could heave the mountain back at Obama. It makes you realize how good we had it when Reagan was president. Thankfully we do have Rush, but of course he doesn’t speak to the whole public.
I saw excerpts of the speech last night. It made me sick from the start when I saw him in front of all those American flags. What an f***in phony.
bump
Glenn Beck, somewhat the same, saying that this came out way too soon, and that by election time, of O is the candidate, it will be down to the level of "everyone has a crazy friend" and that's the end of the story.
My campus is, certainly, much more sensible and "conservative" than most. You would never have speakers on EITHER side interrupted like you do at Columbia or Cornell. They might get some tough questions (speeches), but never rudeness. I'm quite proud of my university for its civility.
Check Peggy Noonan’s comments on tv this morning. Confirms exactly what I said. Like Johnny Cash, he “walked the line.”
This is something that demands consistency, dedication, and a relentless energy, which our side seems to lack.
Peggy Noonan is pretty soft....I coulda squeezed her myself given the chance a few years back.
She’s right sometimes but a bit too beltway.
LOL. Not my type. More of a Gretchen Carlson/Monica Crowley guy.
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