
Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Barrack Obama took an incident, that could have been potentially damaging to his presidential campaign, and turned it into a brilliant opportunity to rise above the usual political rhetoric. I was taken with the open truth of his words about the direct personal realities of racial problems in this country. He did not agree with the incendiary remarks by his pastor Rev. Wright, and yet he did not simply write him off. He revealed that the reality of family, church, community and life is much more complicated than a dismissal or a denial offered in a television sound bite.
His credibility set out, as a person of mixed race, he was able to acknowledge and articulate the "dinner time" comments and realities of both whites and blacks. Peeling back the rhetoric of politics as usual he was able to deliver a message of a higher calling to commonalities that join us and not to the differences that may divide us. He is thoughtful, intelligent, insightful and I am impressed.