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Wordled DNC/RNC National Convention Speeches

I found this interesting. I'm not sure it reveals anything profound but it does provide a different way of looking at things.... more

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RNC: McCain's Speech

Senator John McCain officially accepts the nomination for President of the United States at the Republican National Convention.

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The Man Behind Palin's Speech

As Democrats and Barack Obama's campaign scrambled to attack Sarah Palin's well-received acceptance speech at the... more

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Barack Obama: More harm and hype than hope and good?

Though the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech concides with Barack Obama offically accepting... more

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Divine intervention between "I Have a Dream"'s 45th anniversary and Barack Obama?

DENVER, CO: Today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's powerful "I Have a Dream" speech, and it concides with... more

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45th Anniversary of I Have a Dream

The day was August 28, 1963, the place was Washington, D.C., the speech was "I Have a Dream", and the man was none other than the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

However, what people may not know is that two months ago, a civil rights march took place along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan the same as in June 1963. Over 125,000 demonstrators were there for the dress rehearsal, in which Dr. King gave an earlier and more elaborate version of his renowned "I Have a Dream" speech.

Considered as one of the greatest and unforgettable speeches in American history, King's "I Have a Dream" was named in a 1999 poll of scholars of public address as the top speech of the 20th century.

While some called him as "a wimpy leader" for it, most believed that he was more than both an idealist and a dreamer. "Dr. King", said John Lewis in 2003, "had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit."

Lewis, a U.S. Congressman, spoke on that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. "By speaking the way he did", he continues, "he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."

In the height of the speech, King was named by TIME Magazine as "Man of the Year" in 1963, and became the youngest person ever the next year to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The legacy of "I Have a Dream" has continue, as Barack Obama is set to become the first African-American to accept the Presidential nomination of an prominent political party at this year's Democratic National Convention.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was both a man and servant of God - using his power and influence to bring black and white people together in the process of making two worlds into one. His weapons were nonviolence, racial equality, civil rights, social justice, and his faith in both God and humanity. Dr. King was someone dedicated to spread love, harmony, tolerance, and equality in a world that is full of hostility and hate - a world that fears because it doesn't understand. His legacy still lives as a prophet, an ambassador, a revolutionary, and a visionary: fighting for the rights - and humanity - of every man, woman, and child of all ages ... and all races:

"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men, white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics-will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"

The day was August 28, 1963, the place was Washington, D.C., the speech was "I Have a Dream", and the man was none other... more

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3 months ago

Wisdom from Arundhati Roy

A great quote from the author/activist Arundhati Roy: "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To... more

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4 months ago

Al Gore Speaks About Constitutional Abuses

Al Gore joined with then Republican Bob Barr to bring us a stark truth: Our Democracy is in grave danger. On this July 4th I... more

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5 months ago

McCain totally blows it. Even Faux News laughs at him.

From Veracifier's TPMtv: "If you were awful enough to delight in John McCain's prebuttal speech trainwreck last... more

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6 months ago

'If I Had Sneezed' MLK Remix

Dr. King's famous "If I Had Sneezed" speech remixed to the beat of "Ghetto Story" by Cham. For more... more

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8 months ago

MLK: Life & Death

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. His life work had an immense impact on the... more

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8 months ago

Obama rally draws 20,000 at Penn State

Shivering in blankets of Penn State's colors, some 20,000 people filled a campus lawn Sunday to hear Barack Obama say he can... more

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8 months ago

Since speeches are in the news...

I don't need to tell you why this is interesting.

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9 months ago

Obama Race Speech Reaction

Click the link to read more responses: "The New York Times' editorial, entitled "Mr. Obama's Profile In... more

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9 months ago

Obama Race Speech Distorted by Polling Company Video

After watching the full video of the Obama speech on "a more perfect union", i saw the Rasmussen report video "Can Obama recover from the Pastor Problem?".

RasmussenReport's Website states that "during both Election 2004 and Election 2006, RasmussenReports.com was the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web." They "had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined."

I think this Video by RasmussenReports may be biased which would present a big problem to the Polling Company's general credibility, even though it claims that it was "the nation's most accurate polling firm during the 2004 Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome."
(See "About Us" Section of their Website: http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/about_us

The video may be biased in its choice of footage used from the full Speech:
Besides the fact, that Rasmussen apparently uses footage from Fox (as can be seen from the inserts), which might itself have been an an unfavorable edit of the speech, the Polling institute presents rather extended excerpts of Pastor Wrights Sermon, as well as a short version of the Obama speech. Rasmussen edits this speech into the following (a complete text version of the speech can be read at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-t_n_92077.htmlfollowing
See the full Speech at http://current.com/items/88871445_youtube_barack_obama_a_more_perfect_union_full_speech.

"And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way"

Cut to: "Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends."

Cut to: "But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union."After watching the full video of the Obama speech on "a more perfect union", i saw the Rasmussen report video "Can... more