Posted in news and links, politics, tagged andrew sullivan, barack obama, obama, politics, race, reaction, speech, sullivan on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all [...]
Posted in news and links, politics, tagged barack obama, democratic nomination, election 2008, obama, oratory, philadelhpia, politician, politics, race, race speech, speech, wright on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
My impressions? It was powerful, nuanced, insightful and moving. I wrote yesterday that this speech would be Obama’s sternest test as a politician and an orator. I believe he lived up to it.
For those who missed it, here’s the transcript, though the emotional impact, I suppose, is somewhat muted when one merely reads it.
Update: And here’s the [...]
Posted in politics, tagged barack obama, church, democratic nomination, election 2008, faith, obama, pastor, politics, race, religion, rhetoric, speech, wright on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is little doubt that the Wright controversy is the biggest crisis that the Obama campaign has faced so far. Some commentators have hastened to declare that it is, in fact, over for Obama. There is virtually no chance of him winning the general election anymore, they claim, even if he somehow manages to cling on to the [...]
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