Noted conservative thinker and author Charles Murray writes this about Obama's speech:
I read the various posts here on "The Corner," mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama's speech. Then I figured I'd better read the text (I tried to find a video of it, but couldn't). I've just finished. Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I'm concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant—rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we're used to from our pols.... But you know me. Starry-eyed Obama groupie.
He is right - it is one of the greatest political speeches of the last 50 years... at least.
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What a great speech! It was one of the best I've heard in a long time.
Of course -- predictably -- hate-radio and TV could not find it in their twisted hearts to admit to the speech's effectiveness and remarkable honesty. Already -- they are taking little snippets out of context. What's new, however. I am praying that the American voters will use some common sense and see just how good a candidate Obama can be.
I just read the transcript for the first time (BTW, video is on Huffington Post). And this?
"We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election....We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter...we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
We can do that.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change."
Brilliant. And dead-on. Regardless of your party or your politics.
It was a good speech. I will still be talking about it days after McCain is sworn in as President. We don't need the cahnges that Obama and his ultra-liberal politics will inflict on our country. But you know me, always looking at reality instead of rhetoric.
Great speech,and he wil be a great President. John McCain only knows how to get into a war. Obama will be a President for all of America"s citizens. It will be a new day,when American will began to sit down and talk about their differences without name calling. It will be a time when christiians will get off the GOP band wagon,and start promoting the Kingdom of God. For to long christians has depended on the GOP to fulfill the Great Commission The old politic of ole is coming to a close. The next generation will be a greater generation than the latter,because they will depend on the power of God.
I find it remarkable that a man like Charles Murray, whose research has shown such tunnel vision resulting in racial insensitivity (even if his conclusions need to be still be paid heed) was so touched by a man like Sen. Obama who would seem to be his polar opposite.
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