Thank you, Barack Obama. If I weren't already supporting you, I'd be forced to support you after hearing your speech yesterday.
Your speech served as a reminder of why you will make an excellent president, and of how you operate far above the usual political sound bites. You were honest, compassionate, direct, and eloquent.
You are the kind of person this country needs as president, and even if people are convinced otherwise, at least you will have elevated the discourse so that whoever is elected will have to operate on a higher level than if you had not been involved.
Despite the prevailing inclination of politicians and pundits to focus on our worst aspects, to spotlight our mistakes and flaws, you insist upon appealing to the better angels of our nature. This insistence will not go unrewarded because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Whatever the outcome of this presidential campaign, I know that you are and will be a powerful influence in this country and the world for many years to come.
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I, too, thought Senator Obama's speech was brilliant and beautiful.Trinity UCC was my 83-year-old Dad's favorite church in Chicago. On February 28, 2008 The Council of Conference Ministers of United Church of Christ meeting in NM announced that the IRS is investigating their tax exempt status because of circumstances around an Obama speech on June 23, 2007--before he was a candidate! Details are on their website http://www.ucc.org/news/obama-speech-in-2007-prompts-1.html. Also great letters supporting Rev. Dr. Wright were written from UCC. Finally, be sure and check out Dick Gregory's comments at the State of the Black Union on YouTube.
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