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[packbat]

Thanks to the Slacktivist commenter crowd: the transcript of Obama's speech.

If you haven't watched the speech, for whatever reason, and you don't want to watch it now, for whatever reason, please: just read it. I won't even ask you to keep an open mind - just to click the link and push the down arrow when you hit the bottom of the screen, and whatever you think of him afterwards is fair game. But read it.

Comments

[remix79.livejournal.com]

Very nice speech. I hope he has more than fireside chats up his sleeve (God I'm a dick).

[peri-renna.livejournal.com]

Well, besides graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Business School and working as a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School - neither of which is anything to sneer at - Obama already had a spectacular legislative record seventeen months ago (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2006/10/barack_obama.html) that he's only expanded (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/02/obama-actually.html) since, he's been giving the lawyers fighting to restore the principle of Habeas Corpus at Guantanamo material support (http://habeaslawyersforobama.blogspot.com/2008/01/habeas-lawyers-for-obama.html), and he's been the most emphatic supporter of transgendered people in the race (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/clinton-edwards.html).

Or, if you want a direct comparison of legislative records, one (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/02/solutions-adden.html), two (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/02/but-wait-theres.html), three (http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/02/all-the-rest.html).