Barack Obama's brilliant speech regarding race in America

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It was alright, if anything. I wouldn't say it was ground-breaking.

I'm wouldn't waste my vote on him though; why send a little boy in to do a man's job?

He's in his forties. Older than he looks.

What I mean is that we don't need another naive president; a maximillian, if you will.

So....I don't really want to waste my time listening to this speech, but considering it appears to be popular, I should probably know about it. Is there a cliff notes version available somewhere/can someone sum it up (relatively unbiased please)?

Transcript of Obama speech from CBS

I thought it was a wonderful speech, one of the best and most poignant from a politician that I've ever heard (or read). The only other one that comes close was Obama's 2004 DNC keynote speech. You never see politicians addressing racial issues in a mature and truly thoughtful manner, and Obama's speech was just a breath of fresh air.

Mike Huckabee also had some excellent comments on the situation today: "And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..."

And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me."

Pretty much sums it up, I think. I don't agree with Huckabee on most things, but kudos to him.

I got a question here. Lets say, for random example....... Huckabee, attended a racist, KKK church, and then told his supporters something to the effect that his minister has always been in his corner yadda yadda yadda like Obama said, and he then went and told people "I don't agree with everything he says but I'll still support him".... What do you think the public reaction would be like?

Is it possible that Obama is a lot like Bill CLinton, that he is just a charming, charismatic deciever? He certainly attends a lot of CFR meetings. he could merely be an up-graded sharpton or Farakhan. I don't think Obama himself is racist, but he is a politician, who has played the fiddle for big business organizations such as the CFR, like a fluff. So I don't think he's racist, but I wouldn't put it past him to use his race as a divisive political tool either.

It just doesnt make any sense to me to compare Rev Wright and the KKK. The KKK wants segregation and possible annihilation of anyone they dont like, but Rev Wright, it seems to me that he just doesnt like American foreign policy. What is so inflammatory about that? We've heard the same rhetoric a million times that our foreign policy caused 9-11, so why is it so surprising?


However I will take back anything I have ever said in defense of Rev Wright (his age, attacking foreign policy)if someone can show me where he claims to hate whites like the KKK claims racial superiority ordained by Jesus.