If you should choose to spend the next 37 minutes and 10 seconds sincerely listening to Barack Obama speak on American life as he has experienced it, I promise that you will feel a connection to a fellow human being, not merely a politician.
David Weinberger summed up the speech the best for me:
[...] Obama is asking us to do what is perhaps hardest. What it takes adults to do. Obama’s speech asks us to embrace difference and simultaneously to transcend it. [...]
Who else is tired of the romper room, polarizing, media frenzied society we live within?
Five years ago, today, The United States of America went to war — the epitome of a last measure — with a country because a majority of Americans were led to believe that they had a good excuse to do so.
Barack Obama is making no excuses.
UPDATE: Check out what real people have to say about the speech:
King Anyi from Oakland, California
Cosmo from somewhere in America
Mike Dayvas from somewhere in America
VerticalPolitics from somewhere in America
Students react to Obama’s speech
And to round off this topic, let’s see how Fox News handles the issue:
As always, Fox goes for the binary response. Everything is either a yes or no answer, because it either fits their “gotcha agenda” or it doesn’t.
Big props to Davey D for flippin’ the script on their reporter.
thanks for posting
i’m continuously inspired by obama and wish that more people took the time to sift through sound bites and commercials and DISTRACTIONS. sift is probably the wrong word.
i hear you, hannah. i gave up tv news of all varieties years ago for that exact reason.
highlights only work with sports plays and scores.