Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Um, this speech is really good


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No time to analyze it now, and I'm really not sure how it will be perceived, but I thought it was amazing. I'm probably too close, but right now it seems like one of the best speeches ever given on race in America. Tell me I'm wrong.

2 comments:

saribotton said...

You are not wrong. That was an amazing and important speech. Brian cried. (Don't tell him I told you that.)

lidzville said...

This is a parochial response, but I hope one of the long term effects of the speech is that pundits shut up. I read somebody yesterday, forget whom, who argued that this was one of the first times in decades that a politician effectively resisted the media's ability to lower the debate. Obama's a better writer than most of the journalists covering him, so they sorta have to shut up, because they can't match him rhetorically. I read it as a giant fuck you to the Chris Matthews sort of dialogue, and hopefully it humbled those jerks just a little. Let's see if that sticks.