Obama Speech - "A More Perfect Union"

About This Video: Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.

An excellent speech! Many called this historic and unprecedented on the cable news channels and talk radio station this morning. Many people were reported as crying both in the audience and listening and watching at home when he told his personal story:

"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible."

The part on Rev. Wright that I am glad he said was:

"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love."

There were so many stand out moments from this speech, if I copy and pasted any more of the passages, I would end up copying and pasting the whole speech. It was just that good to me. He covered all bases on all sides. Words that came to my mind were: Eloquent, dignified and the definition of integrity. To see the complete text of Senator Barack's Speech "A More Perfect Union" see: www.barackobama.com.
~LT