Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 03/26/2008 - YouTube
Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which A...
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 03/26/2008
Apparently being caught lying on your resume brings out the venomous side in Sen. Clinton. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose...
Sort by Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) - 03/20/2008
One of the coolest features of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is its built-in access to YouTube. We think free, short clips are the perfect mobile video product, and many iPhone users agree: More than 31% of iPhone owners watch video on their phones, compared to less than 5% of overall U.S. mobile subscribers. In January, Google (GOOG) unveiled an updated version of its mobile YouTube service, promising access...
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
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Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Barack Obama gave a major speech today that directly responds to the controversial comments made by his church’s longtime pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr, but also highlighted the incredible challenge of race relations in our country today. Obama’s speech was very impressive. This time we want to talk about the men and women of every [...]
Sort by Swampland (Free subscription) - 03/20/2008
In less than two days, Barack Obama's speech on race has been viewed more the 2 million times on YouTube. By comparison, consider that MSNBC's Hardball averaged about 420,000 in the 7 p.m. hour last November. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 pulled in 589,000 at 10 p.m. Another comparison: John McCain's mesmerizing spaceflight video has been up on YouTube for nearly two weeks, but viewed less than 167,000...
Sort by Red State (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Obama gave a speech today, touted as an effort to bridge the Democrats' widening racial divide, and an obvious attempt to control the damage resulting from the hate-filled speech of Obama's long time spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Gallup finds race is the issue that divides the Democratic electorate more than any other: In an aggregate of 6,721 interviews Gallup has conducted between...
Sort by AMERICAblog (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
As expected, commentators are weighing on the powerful speech delivered by Barack Obama. He seems to have exceeded expectations. Taegan Godddard has a compilation of what some pundits are saying about Obama's speech today. I think what Taegan himself wrote is right on point: Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race this morning showed off exactly why he's become the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential...
Sort by Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Obama's speech, "A More Perfect Union," is here , if you'd like to see it. Ben Smith has the transcript here . I've only read it, I haven't watched the whole video yet, but it's very good—precisely the kind of eloquent and hopeful speech we've come to expect from Obama; I agree with a whole lot of it, and have some minor quibbles I don't feel inclined to detail. There's one significant (to me) issue...
Sort by The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
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Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
"A More Perfect Union" -- by Barack Obama (March 18, 2008) “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group...
Sort by The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Since his rise to national prominence, Barack Obama has been tasked with giving big speeches while facing high expectations. It's almost unrealistic to expect any political figure to keep delivering one powerful and historic address after another, but Obama — love him or hate him, an extraordinary orator — has managed to follow through and [...]
Sort by Balloon Juice (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
I am watching it live. Seems to be, well, reasonable and well thought out and works for me. This portion seems to me to be refreshingly candid and long overdue: In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been [...]
Sort by Feministing (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Video of the speech is here , full text here . What did you all think? To kick off the discussion, I'm going to repost what I wrote over on TAPPED : WHAT I DON'T GET. Why, after Geraldine Ferraro's comments , didn't Hillary Clinton stand up and deliver a speech on how she sees race in America? Ok, ok, of course I understand why Obama was the one expected to offer a definitive statement on race. I...
Sort by Sadly, No! (Free subscription) - 03/18/2008
Well, I thought ol’ Barry hit it square out of the park today. Not to favor a candidate or anything, but I’ll tell you: What you don't realize going into some of these Obama speeches — not all of them, certainly, but the occasional really good, custom-made ones — is that you're going to come [...]
