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A Thinking Man's Speech (Peggy Noonan Swoons over 'the speech')

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Mar 21, 2008
        
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I thought Barack Obama's speech was strong, thoughtful and important. Rather beautifully, it was a speech to think to, not clap to. It was clear that's what he wanted, and this is rare. It seemed to me as honest a speech as one in his position could give within the limits imposed by politics. As... [read full story]                    

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Obama's America

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Mar 24, 2008
        

Transcending race, to hate on rich people. ... In the middle of his now famous speech on race and politics in America, Sen. Barack Obama claimed that his life story has made him an unconventional candidate. His white grandmother, like Rev. Wright, has engaged in racial...

Barack Obama: A Typical Wright Person

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Mar 24, 2008
        

Reinforcing his image of an exceptional orator and a formidable debater, Barack Obama used the controversy surrounding his pastor's provocative sermons to deliver a major speech aimed at uniting Americans regardless of racial, religious, or sexual identity, and bringing them all together for the...

Word to your o'Bama

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Mar 24, 2008
        

I have followed very close this entire election process this year and last. I have found one person who disturbs me above all, Obama. I will defend him with his lovely Reverend Wright b.s. that is not what turned me off. ... News Type: Event — Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:28 AM...

Would Obama Be Leading the Democratic Race if He Were White?

realclearpolitics.com
Mar 24, 2008
        

When former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-N.Y.) asserted that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she caused a mini media frenzy and was forced to step down from the Clinton campaign's finance committee. I found the comment slightly unsettling but not for the same reason...

Better empathy is needed to understand controversy

jacksonville.com
Mar 24, 2008
        

I'm glad Barack Obama didn't disown his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If he had, he would have risked closing the door on a conversation about race in America. ... For the past week or so Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has...

Nation’s race conversation should include ‘bi-racial’ label

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Mar 24, 2008
        

Nation’s race conversation should include ‘bi-racial’ label Casey Meyers - Saint Joseph, Mo. As an 80-year-old undecided white voter, I found USA TODAY's editorial and the front page coverage of Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia to be extremely helpful ("Under...

Robert D. Novak: Deepening Democratic Dilemma

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Mar 24, 2008
        

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically. By elevating the... ... US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack...

Carol Platt Liebau: Barack Obama's Big Mistake -- and How He Fixes It

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Mar 24, 2008
        

It was a fateful decision - and a significant strategic mistake. Battered by the controversy over the remarks of his mentor and pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama delivered a speech designed to switch the national... ... It was a fateful decision – and a significant...

Presidential candidate's pastoral dilemma sounds familiar

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Mar 24, 2008
        

Sen. Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate, spoke about issues related to race in America last week in an effort to distance himself from divisive comments made by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. ... Political commentators and Americans in general have...

Thoughts About Race, From Beyond the Pulpit

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Mar 24, 2008
        

Susan Shearouse can think of no better place than church to discuss the difficult topic of race. ... "If not here, then where?" she said before an 11 a.m. service yesterday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Vienna. Yet it's been on her mind for the past few days,...

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