this will go down, especially if he wins, as one of the greatest speeches this country has ever heard---no one has ever spoken more honestly and forthrightly about race in america---
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3/18/2008 05:56:00 PM
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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Yeah, Cootie, I just heard NPR's distillation of that speech. It was rare in it's direct confrontation with paradox and "grey" areas in ethics, history, etc...
Overall, I think it was a net positive for O. The worst enemy for O is simply time, too much time to have the media go over and over and over every little thing they say, every little factoid that is discovered, etc....
Good thing is, it's the same for C. A large block of the Democrats may have to eat some crow and diss C like the Republitards did back in the day.
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