THIS IS ONE OF HIS BEST SPEECHS, THE ISSUE OF RACE IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD HOLDS US ALL BACK FROM BEING THE BEST THAT WE CAN BE.  

It was an amazing speech and took some gutts to say some of it. Huge respect to the man.

we want obama..........we want obama....lol

this guy has the goods. cant say enough about him. I really hope we Americans get this guy. This guy has the potential to heal, lead, and most of all inspire. I have never felt this way about a politician (American or otherwise). Not even Samark Sundaradej.

His comments and actions concerning the Rev. Wright don't convince me.

I think if the situation were reversed, and this was a white southern candidate who had chosen to be a member of a congregation for 20 years led by a reverend who had repeatedly made anti-black comments and called that reverend his mentor, those of you praising this speech would not accept that candidate as fit for the presidency if he had only come to reject those statements and distance himself from that reverend during his campaign for the presidency. Nor would I accept that candidate.

I don't believe that Mr. Obama is racist in any way. I think his relationship with Rev. Wright was about power and ambition. And it reveals a disturbing moral failing that this well-crafted speech can not absolve. It's a couple of decades late, and several dollars short.

Posted by Loburt [ 19 March 2008 | 3:33PM ]

I don't believe that Mr. Obama is racist in any way. I think his relationship with Rev. Wright was about power and ambition. <<<<

well there's a first in politics !!!

And it reveals a disturbing moral failing that this well-crafted speech can not absolve. It's a couple of decades late, and several dollars short. <<<<

i reckon that speech (rightly or wrongly) has just secured him the democrat candidacy !!

Posted by Loburt [ 19 March 2008 | 3:33PM ]

"His comments and actions concerning the Rev. Wright don't convince me."

Well well well. Could this be coming from a hard core Clinton supporter maybe? Regardless the fact you happen to be partly correct in this case. It ain't about "power and ambition." Every politician is ambitious and desires to acquire power (except for the Clintons, of course). It's about bad judgement and association.

Fawning and preening for a return to the 1990's "good old days?" Naaaaahhhhh....why would someone think that?

Don't worry...she's next on the chopping block. And if she DOESN'T get the nom, no doubt you'll be radically changing your tune like the rest of the fickle hard left liberals.

Posted by Ciaran [ 19 March 2008 ]

I don't believe that Mr. Obama is racist in any way. I think his relationship with Rev. Wright was about power and ambition. <<<<

well there's a first in politics !!!

And it reveals a disturbing moral failing that this well-crafted speech can not absolve. It's a couple of decades late, and several dollars short. <<<<

i reckon that speech (rightly or wrongly) has just secured him the democrat candidacy !!

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I think his delegate lead will secure him the nomination, not this speech. Doesn't work that way. I doubt that the people who have doubts about him, or just don't support him, have suddenly been won over.

Ah, but you see, Mr. Obama is not supposed to be your standard politician hungry for power and imbued with ambition. He's "above" all that.

It's not that something is done for power and ambition that necessarily makes it wrong or a failing. It's WHAT is done for the sake of power and ambition.

Posted by Vbroker:

Could this be coming from a hard core Clinton supporter maybe?

Hard core? Hardly. I recognize that all the remaining candidates from both parties have failings, along with good points.

As for being fickle, that's not something anyone who has read my views over any period of time has ever accused me of.

But certainly your lack of being "fickle" when it comes to supporting extreme right-wing neo-conservatives, the most severely failed and disastrous policies our country has ever been subjected to, and the most ignorant and dangerously incompetent president the United States has ever had, is nothing you should be proud of.

The fact that you are, speaks for itself.

Posted by vbroker [ 19 March 2008 | 10:01PM ]

Don't worry...she's next on the chopping block. And if she DOESN'T get the nom, no doubt you'll be radically changing your tune like the rest of the fickle hard left liberals. <<<<

******* laughable or what !! what about all the neo-cons now queuing to kiss the "liberal" McCain's ass !!

Loburt has hit the nail right on the head he's getting a pass because of his race for the sayings be him, his wife, and his preacher of 20 years, who married him & his wife, baptised his kids, and is the spiritual advisor to his campaign. WHen the Rev. Jerry Fallwell made comments to the same effect about 9-11 there was almost commdemnation all over the US and made all the news stations. However the direct right ear of a potential president and it's gets a pass because he's black. He's as racist as the klan without the hood and is the spiritual advisor to the potentially next leader of the most powerful military in the world?

It would be one thing if it were just off handed comments he made and some one picked them up BUT these are his sermons in church to his parishoners! It seems like a serious way of thought from a strict muslims start to a extremeist offshoot chritian doctorine especially when the church its self says it's a "black church" and no one blinks an eye but if it was reveresed and it was a white candidate and their church said a "White church" everyone would be up in arms!

You can not hold one group to one standard and give another group a total pass on the same standard!