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Posted on July 28, 2004 @ 10:39 am
Obamamania — catch it!
From U.S. Senate Candidate Barack Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention:
Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America.
There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Very nice. The Chicago Tribune has a video of the speech, and CNN.com has the full transcript.
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He’s kinda throwing a wrench in John Edwards stump speech though, isn’t he?
That CT link is reg-only now — here is a CNN link:
Obama transcript
Thanks for the link to the CNN.com version, Corey. I changed the post to link to it instead.
Justin: You know, that thought occured to me, too. I guess Obama’s refuting a different pair of Americas: the conservative and liberal Americas, as opposed to Edwards’ rich and poor Americas. Or something like that.
I don’t know, I think they need to be careful before there’s some dangerous cross-mojination between the Massachusetts pinkos and the minority queens……..this one could blow up in the Democrats faces.