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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (14049)	3/18/2008 11:24:52 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

This is a great speech by Obama - could be a turning point <eom>.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (14049)	3/19/2008 1:19:58 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Here's the reaction of conservative commentator Charles Murray at National Review Online... corner.nationalreview.com <<...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...>>