The Shorter "More Perfect Union" Speech

[akirlu]

Folks over at Daily Kos, and Talking Points Memo worry that Barak Obama's speech about race today will be distorted by sound bites and bad summaries, and that Americans aren't smart enough to see the big picture that Obama has painted for us. They also worry that his allies and supporters won't be able to summarize briefly what he so eloquently said at length.

I can't do anything about CNN or Fox, but for what it's worth I can humbly offer my own shorter version of what Obama had to say today. I'm open to suggestions for making it better, but if anybody feels like they can use it, feel free:

When it comes to race in the United States, we cannot usefully deny where we are, or how we got here, or what a great mixture of personal imperfections and unrealized dreams we carry with us, but we can look forward to something more, something better, and we can do it together.

On the other hand, the very best thing to do is to get people to read or listen to the whole thing for themselves. If they do that, I think this has a chance of being a moment that resonates down through history.

I was also going to point to Oliver Willis' blog here, but something seems to have taken it down. Possibly all the link traffic over from Kos.