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Title: Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union' (youtube)
Source: http://www.youtube.com
URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Published: Mar 18, 2008
Author: Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-03-18 13:41:02 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 706
Comments: 54

Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union' (~37 minutes)

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.


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Obama Race Speech: The Full Text
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(Breaking) Obama to deliver a major speech on race
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#1. To: Brian S, aristeides, iconoclast, Elliott Jackalope, Arator, christine, Jethro Tull, Cynicom (#0)

ping

robin  posted on  2008-03-18   13:41:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robin (#1)

His speech was brilliant. Strike up "Hail to the Chief" because McCrazy and Hellary are done.

Arator  posted on  2008-03-18   19:20:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Arator (#3)

His speech was brilliant. Strike up "Hail to the Chief" because McCrazy and Hellary are done.

Monumental.

An historic milestone.

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-18   23:08:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: iconoclast (#5)

I made it about five minutes into this. The world is on fire and he has time to all this time to talk about being black. Sorry, but it's not good enough.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-18   23:19:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: buckeye (#6)

Are you aware of the firestorm of smears that he has been through in the past two weeks, all focused on race?

Had he not given this speech, his campaign would have suffered.

He said beforehand that the speech would be about race, in an effort to directly deal with the recent attacks.

robin  posted on  2008-03-18   23:25:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: robin (#7)

I have long been disgusted by his church, so I haven't looked at the "firestorms" as an issue. I'm actually more critical of his association with Saul Alinsky.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-18   23:28:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: buckeye (#8)

I'm actually more critical of his association with Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky was a "bottom-up social activist" ... not some wild eyed bomb thrower or demagogue.

As you know, Hillary beat Obama to Saul's door before Obama was out of knickers.

I recall very little reference to this episode during her "35 years of service".

But Obama's opposers are desperately grasping any and every straw to be found.

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-19   0:23:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: iconoclast (#14)

But Obama's opposers are desperately grasping any and every straw to be found.

You're apologizing for a raving communist.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-19   6:40:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: buckeye (#17)

You're apologizing for a raving communist.

Are you sure you want to to toss the word "raving" around, buck?

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-19   7:52:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: iconoclast (#26)

Are you sure you want to to toss the word "raving" around, buck?

Don't make me laugh! I can't give Hillary Clinton a pass for her former associations with Saul Alinsky, so why should I give BHO a pass for the same? Face it, we're in deep trouble. You're quibbling over which poison we ingest.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-19   17:34:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: buckeye, iconoclast (#39)

I can't give Hillary Clinton a pass for her former associations with Saul Alinsky, so why should I give BHO a pass for the same?

What association? Obama was ten years old when Alinsky died.

Prior to Alinsky's death, Obama lived in Hawaii or Indonesia.

nolu_chan  posted on  2008-03-19   18:07:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: nolu_chan (#41)

Seventeen years later, another young honor student was offered a job as an organizer in Chicago. By then, Alinsky had died, but a group of his disciples hired Barack Obama, a 23-year-old Columbia University graduate, to organize black residents on the South Side, while learning and applying Alinsky's philosophy of street-level democracy. The recruiter called the $13,000-a-year job "very romantic, until you do it."

washingtonpost.com

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-19   18:11:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: buckeye (#42)

From your link:

Thanks.

A master of the attention-getting rhetorical flourish, Alinsky once pressed Eastman Kodak to hire more black workers, saying the only thing the company had done about race was introduce color film. Yet he practiced "a method that sounds more radical than it actually was," said Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin, who called Alinsky "a tactician more than he was an ideologist."

Alinsky, unimpressed by dogma, believed in coalitions linked by clear-eyed calculations of self-interest. He focused on concrete local issues: bus routes, public housing, jobs. To him, the fashionable cry of the 1960s that power comes from the barrel of a gun was "absurd." To mark his differences with the bomb-throwers, he subtitled his second book "A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals."

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-20   8:19:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: iconoclast (#47)

Yet he practiced "a method that sounds more radical than it actually was," said Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin, who called Alinsky "a tactician more than he was an ideologist."

The guy teaches "radical tradition" at Georgetown. You figure out which way he leans, I don't have time.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-20   18:05:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#52. To: buckeye (#51)

The guy teaches "radical tradition" at Georgetown. You figure out which way he leans, I don't have time.

I'm slowly but surely getting the impression that, in your view, anybody but Rotary members are subversives .... and some of them may be suspect.

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-20 22:52:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: buckeye (#51)

The guy teaches "radical tradition" at Georgetown. You figure out which way he leans, I don't have time.

Hit and run smear artists rarely take a lot of "time".

Bio
Michael Kazin is a Professor in the Department of History. He is an expert in U.S. politics and social movements, 19th and 20th centuries and is currently working on a history of the American left, to be published by Knopf. His most recent book is "A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan."

Prior to his position at Georgetown, Kazin served as Assistant Professor to Professor of History at the American University. In 1996, he served as John Adams Chair in American Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He also served as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and as adjunct professor at San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and San Francisco City College.

Kazin has received the following academic honors:Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004; Senior Faculty Research Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2002-3; Research Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1998-9; Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1998-9; Distinguished Lecturer in History and American Studies, Fulbright Program, Japan, July-August, 1997; John Adams Chair in American Studies, Distinguished Lectureship, Fulbright Program, Spring 1996; Senior Fellowship, Commonwealth Center, College of William and Mary, 1990-91; Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution), 1988-9; and the Herbert Gutman Award (for best book in American history published by University of Illinois Press), 1988.

He has written: A Godly Hero, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (co-author, Maurice Isserman), Oxford University Press, 1999 (paperback, 2000). Second edition, 2003. Named one of best books of 2000 by Washington Post; The Populist Persuasion: An American History, Basic Books, 1995 (paperback, 1996). Revised paperback edition, Cornell University Press, 1998; and Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era, University of Illinois Press, 1987 (paperback, 1989).

Education

* Ph.D. (1983) Stanford University, History
* M.A. (1975) Portland State University, History
* B.A. (1972) Harvard University, Social Studies

I'm sure you can pick a little cut and paste out of there to smear Dr. Kazin with, given your aptitude of a retarded sparrow picking shit away from grain. But the guy sounds like a left leaning populist to me.

How 'bout posting your own resume while your at it.

iconoclast  posted on  2008-03-20 23:29:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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