Beyond Putting Food on Your Family

Barack Obama's campaign has recently been surrounded by controversy over what many view as incendiary preaching on the part of his pastor, which you presumably already know since you do not live under a rock. Today Obama delivered a speech in response, addressing not only the present situation but also larger issues of race in American society. I can only imagine where the country would be today if we'd received this sort of immediate and bracingly honest response to potential crises from our president over the past seven years (as opposed to, say, grammatically butchered lies). Take half an hour and watch the whole thing. It's worth the time.



Here's a link to full text of the speech, and here's link to my favorite response, pointing out that the guy actually wrote the damn thing himself — something no president or presidential candidate has done since 1969.

1969!

Be still my geeky heart.