Please rate Obama's "A more perfect union" speech - Terrible to Transformational

[rndmprsn]

I was absolutely floored personally...what did you get out of it and why?

also...please K&R if it inspired you, thanks.

[Megahurtz]

1. Transformational!!!

[NJmaverick]

2. He was able to speak positively and properly

to both sides of the issue. It was a speech like no other. You have to go back to the great men of the 60s like JFL and MLK to find this great of speech, by a major political figure.

[Bonobo]

3. I have never seen such a great speech, and one so needed.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. It was merely great...

I would call it transformational only in retrospect. After the second term of the Obama Administration comes to a close and we have more-or-less permanently put to rest the politics of race, then I'll say it was transformational.

I feel like Simon Cowell -- you'll all hissing at me right now.

[rndmprsn]

5. not at all...thanks for the honest reply...

just wanted to see how DU reacted to something like this...

[tekisui]

6. I'm not hissing.

I respect your points. I agree it was great, and only the future can tell us the actual transformational weight of it.

It was great, I think it was a positive step, and I think it will hold up to the test of time.

[margotb822]

7. I think time will tell

We can't know the impact of the speech today, but I found it very inspirational.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

8. I wish I could have seen him speak

instead of just reading the transcript--I might have voted "great speech".

I needed no converting, though. I knew, as soon as Rev. Wright's words were being sound-bit (and de-contextualized, and sensationalized) that the orations of a fire-and-brimstone preacher have no place in this political campaign, and further, that a man of Wright's generation, who lived through the tumult of the civil-rights era, might justifiably hold those opinions, while a younger man like Obama is in fact a progressive and a unifier, informed by all opinions but possessing a mind of his own.

Ferarro's comments, on the other hand, which she herself repeated up to and including the day on which she was forced out of Clinton's camp, were extremely divisive, made more so by Ferarro's official position within a political machine. I won't go so far as to call her a racist, but I will say that she is ignorant and short-sighted, and guilty of perpetuating the same race myths that keep us locked in our current state.

My dream team isn't running (Al Gore for Prez, former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber as VP, if you wanted to know), but I still feel like I can get behind Obama.

[Jensen]

9. It was way past time that someone with his skills to say it and hopefully guide "US"

to change the "Old Beaten Path" ! K&R :kick:

[Forkboy]

10. I'll go with option 2.

:thumbsup:

Too early to tell yet how transformational it'll be. It has the potential to be just that down the road.

[undeterred]

11. He's got grace.

[Adams Wulff]

12. Transmogrifinational!

Completely turned me into someone else.