Obama delivers unprecedented speech today

Barack Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech on race issues in America and how they have become a divisive factor in this presidential campaign. He addressed the matter of his controversial former pastor, but did much more than that.

Read the text of Obama’s speech today from the Obama website. This also includes a video link.

I’m an Obama supporter, but I know that Obama is not perfect. What I like about him is that, when confronted with what is the greatest strain of his campaign, he didn’t lay up or dodge the real issue. This speech addressed the real problems of race — shared by whites and blacks alike — in a very courageous way. Some of the commentators say it may have been so honest that it will hurt him in the election. I don’t know. But Obama laid it all out there. He said what needed to be said. I can’t imagine either of his opponents, Hillary Clinton in the primary or John McCain in the general, showing this kind of political courage under similar duress. I really think this guy is for real.

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  1. Hello – my grandparents live in Aurora – and have recently come around to support Obama. They are the empitome of working class, blue collar folk, and I didn’t think they could possibly be alone in that demographic in supporting Obama. My entire family is pretty much working class to middle class, beer drinking, regular folk. Do you get the sense there are a lot of working class people/men who would be open to supporting Obama? I’m so curious, as I am tired of hearing that he can’t do well with that population. I decided to do some research on that and thus, I stumbled across your blog.

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