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lamh36
ICYMI: Here is the “I Have A Dream” speech in it’s entirety. It’s only 17 min long, but it’s power can’t be denied. Listening to it will leave you breathless, much like alot of the AA newspeople seemed to be after hearing it.
http://youtu.be/smEqnnklfYs
MazeDancer
The President’s speech was especially inspiring at the finish. But throughout, his reminders of how Freedom is not free and the price paid and the history of paying that price was terrific. I got teary in a few spots. And, as said, the end was rousing and beautiful.
If you didn’t get to see the speech live, it is very much worth watching. Starts a little slow, so hang in there, it picks up mightily.
Omnes Omnibus
I wasn’t able to catch it live, so thanks for posting this.
kindness
What is it with racists today? I’ve spent some time at NPR this morning and the amount of overt racism is mind boggling. When I was a kid at least the racists knew to keep their shit to themselves or their racist friends. Now they are proud to post their bullshit.
When did being a conservative = being a racist? Didn’t use to work like that but now apparently it does.
MikeJ
@kindness: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
? Martin
Young Conor says something useful. No, really!
Schlemizel
I am intentionally avoiding some of the social sites today because I already can hear the usual klan of kooks whining about why everything has to be about race. You know they never give race a thought & its just so unfair that the coloreds always have to bring it up starting with the boy in the WHite House. It pushes me towards violence, if only stupidity caused its owner as much pain as it causes the world they live in
? Martin
@kindness:
Officially, 1964. Well, the plan was put in place in 1964. It’s just taken time to play out:
So, yeah. How has that not played out to the letter?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I was wondering about this, myself:
Drudge’s tweet posted at link, if you care. You can guess.
gogol's wife
@kindness:
You should take a look at the comments on the YouTube of the new White House puppy. Or don’t. These people are scum.
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: Blah. I hate universal truths.
Will catch up with everything when I get home.
(And FYWP for eating my details. Again.)
Shakezula
Thanks for posting this. It is going to be a rough few weeks as the Republican droolbuckets reach deep into their pants and dig out more racist shit to fling.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
So sick of black people making it about racism every time white people are racist.
Yatsuno
@Shakezula:
That well, unfortunately, is bottomless. Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
MikeJ
@Schlemizel:
USA Today had a hed I posted a couple of threads back: Once again, Obama likely to address racial issues.
ruemara
@Shakezula: Doing that seems to be more than just a Republican thing
TaMara (BHF)
@lamh36: I’m just barely old enough to remember when Dr. King was murdered. I love this speech, I always have. I was happy today that I had the office to myself and a high-speed connection and could watch the whole event.
gbear
@MazeDancer: I watched it again. First time I was feeling like Obama was saying that we’re facing a serious shitstorm that you’d better steel yourself against, but this second time I caught how he was insisting that people are continuing MLK’s march in very simple ways when they try to make life better for themselves and others. I also caught a voting rights comment that I’d missed before. It’s impossible to top the memory of MLK’s speech and the incredible changes that were started back then, but once I set that aside, I really liked the speech. Now I need to go find John Lewis’s speech.
Schlemizel
@MikeJ:
The racist bastard!!! why would he do the?!?!?
I am trying desperately to get in a better mood – this from Americans finest news source helps:
Report: Now Sadly The Best Time In American History To Be Black
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-now-sadly-the-best-time-in-american-history,33661/
gbear
@MikeJ: Early in the speech, Obama is focusing on racial issues just because, duh, anniversary of the first March On Washington. He kind of morphed towards the plight of the 99% as soon as he could. Of course, he said it while being black, so RACIST!!
Chyron HR
Why don’t you post a video of the speech that Ted & Hellen imagined in lieu of watching the President’s speech? I’m sure that one is much more interesting.
shelly
“he President’s speech was especially inspiring at the finis”
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I thought the first of it was the best. At the end, when he uses that repetitive rhetoric, ” they’re marching, he’s marching, she’s marching…” it seems to lose power.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks. That answers my question from the last thread (the Betty-Cracker-is-having-a-crap-day thread). Naah, I’m not going to click on the Drudgelink.
Also, I was watching the ceremonies on my iPad at the office, and had a few brief phone interruptions during the course of the speeches. I must have missed what Obama said about voting, and am looking forward to going back and watching the entire thing this evening. In the meantime, I think I helped perpetuate (on earlier threads) the mistaken idea that he didn’t address the issue, and for that I apologize.
gbear
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s a quick mention in passing at the front end of the speech. It’s a good line, but it goes by fast and he doesn’t return to it. I’d missed it the first time I watched the speech too.
Roger Moore
@Chyron HR:
Sorry, I don’t want to see what’s in some obnoxious troll’s imagination. It’s scary in there!
gbear
@shelly:
That was one of the parts I liked best. :) Mileage may vary…
PsiFighter37
But none of this matters because of Snowden and Syria!!!11111
Davis X. Machina
No mention of the public option. Or drones. Nor did he name Shirley Sherrod to head the Department of Agriculture.
You won’t catch me voting for him again…..
PsiFighter37
@Davis X. Machina: My Snowden + Syria > public option + drones + Shirley Sherrod. Try again, weakling!
piratedan
@Davis X. Machina: and when is he going to stop the Sequester, eh? just asking questions you know… //
Davis X. Machina
@piratedan: Why would he stop it when it was his idea, in the first place, and reduced government spending is all he ever wanted? Might as well expect him to renounce Simpson-Bowles. Or chained CPI. Also, University-of-Chicago-Law-and-Economics-Hayek-Posner!
gogol's wife
@gbear:
I liked it too. Great speech. And he looked kind of angry at the end.
Thanks for posting this, Anne Laurie.
gogol's wife
I am dreading whoever the next president will be. Of course I hope it’s a Democrat, but there’s nobody like him. I don’t expect to see this again in my lifetime.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
Dude, how dare you! Don’t you know that racism is dead except for reverse racism now? Making black people the worst racists in the history of forever?!
Anya
A very inspiring speech. I love my president and all those who hate him can eat dirt.
mdblanche
@Chyron HR:
I really don’t know why you’d want to see that, but if you insist…
@piratedan:
That reminds me. Today was also the third anniversary of somebody else giving a speech, but I don’t remember who. I’m pretty sure he’s dead now. Or his career is at least.
lamh36
@gbear:
John Lewis speech: http://youtu.be/oGEmDXM1sYc
Comrade Jake
Corn has an article up on how the FBI basically tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/j-edgar-hoover-war-martin-luther-king
Worth a read.
Roger Moore
@mdblanche:
Wrong one. I think you meant this one.
PsiFighter37
@gogol’s wife: This. Easily the politician I feel like who talks to the public with the respect and nuance that adults should be able to deal in.
mdblanche
@Roger Moore: Too carefully stage-managed. You know it’s got to be a real mess in its imagination.
@PsiFighter37: Well, that explains why so many adults aren’t able to deal with him.
Ted & Hellen
Forty-two comments in thread about President Obama’s speech.
Five years ago this thread would have been 400 comments long.
How the mighty have fallen…
PopeRatzo
Beautiful speech. Forceful, sure and moving. It reminded me why I voted for him.
I wish he governed like he talks. I pray that he still will decide to do so before the clock runs out.
Calliope Jane
I loved his speech. I just watched it, and haven’t read the prepared remarks, but I believe he mentioned voting rights more than once.
A significant portion was on jobs, the dignity of work; that pursuit of happiness requires a living wage, etc.
But he extended that to explaining why and how the dream got delayed. Criticizing those who championed “greed is good” and politicians who told people the government was to blame — it was a great section.
Unfortunately, it forces me to admit something. I’ve never been thankful for Reagan for anything, but if Barack Obama coming “politically” of age in the Reagan era set him on the path to today, then, damn, I’m grateful. There is so much to fix and decades of garbage to overcome, but the moral arc of the universe doesn’t bend without help so let’s get going.
Yep, I’m a little fired up. :).
In short: fantastic speech. I enjoyed all the speeches throughout today that I got to see.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You give him a dozen or so more senators and about three dozen congressmen who think the way he talks, and he will.
tybee
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
true dat
MomSense
Great speech. I finally got to watch it tonight.
Rhonda Palmer
Now how will we march? Will we just spend time typing our thoughts into little boxes, or will we live our lives in honor of the best of humanity? “Change doesn’t come FROM Washington. It comes TO Washington.”
Drexciya
It was a well written speech, but I had a difficult time having much of an emotional reaction to it that wasn’t colored by this:
Yeah…
AxelFoley
@PopeRatzo:
Where do you get these trolls from, Cole?