19 March 2008

A great speech

I have now had a chance to watch Obama's speech on race in Philly yesterday. It was a great speech that was well delivered that went deeper than sound bites and addressed directly one of the biggest issues America still has to face up to. In short, it was everything that will fail to gain him points with the electorate and at 37 minutes is 36 minutes and 15 seconds longer than the attention span of the average American.

However, for me at least, it was probably enough that I will support him over Hillary even though neither fit well into my political philosophy and Obama's health care ideas require significant reworking. The right wingers will find plenty to pick at, largely out of context, including Senator Obama's failure to believe that America is perfect thereby proving that he is not a true patriot.



Transcript here.

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