Best part of Mr Obama's speech. "This time"

[donheld]

...This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.

This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.

This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit.

This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned.

I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country...

[opihimoimoi]

1. HUGH.......Hugh Speech...said it ALL...well, almost all...but, at this time, Brilliant

Well said, well timed, and well put....

[dchill]

2. "This time..."

I thing you can just go ahead and say HUGE.
:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

6. LOL...we all know Hugh, he is a friend of mine...he is hugh....

[cooolandrew]

3. I loved this " we can talk about wright till November we can do that ... or we can talk issues"

[JustinL]

4. I teared up listening to the lead up to that section

After discussing the option of giving in to a politics of sound-bite trivialities:

"But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change."

[FrenchieCat]

5. I'm in love with that speech........

That's is all.