He should be ashamed of himself.

Edwards supporters should listen or watch ... "some bemoand poverty" ... Obama intones in that fake civil rights inflection he abuses in the south.

Clinton supporters should listen too.  It was littered with attacks.

That is fine.  Obama is a fast walking, smooth talking southside Chicago politician with ties to an indicted political fixer so his attacks are not new.

What he new is that he went into King's church and used King as cover.

Before each attack he'd use his fake civil rights inflection and cry out for unity, and then he would attack.

Then he would cry out for more unity and then he would attack his opponents again.  After he'd cry out for more unity.

What a bunch of total horse shiite.

Obama used King's holiday to make an overtly politcal attack on his two opponents and he used King as cover.

Shameful.

You have to be a total in the tank Obamamaniac to get on board with that bs.

It was a really good speech.

The tricky thing is that the YouTube generation is all in Obama's corner anyway.  The major challenge is actually getting them out to vote in a primary.

Ya know what this guy needs to be ashamed of? The fact that Zibignew Brzezinski, and apparently most of his spawn, are totally controlling him and his campaign. Check it out.

Obama:

"We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others; when our children see nooses hanging from a schoolyard tree today, in the present, in the twenty-first century."

... fact, Obama has nevered visited Jena, and he was strangly silent while major protests, lead by Al Sharpton and his supporter Jesse Jackson, took place there.

More Obama:

"We have a deficit when homeless veterans sleep on the streets of our cities; when innocents are slaughtered in the deserts of Darfur; when young Americans serve tour after tour of duty in a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged."

... a war he has voted to fund multiple times and a war he said he didn't know how would have voted on had he been in the Senate.

More Obama:

"It is not enough to bemoan the plight of poor children in this country and remain unwilling to push our elected officials to provide the resources to fix our schools. It is not enough to decry the disparities of health care and yet allow the insurance companies and the drug companies to block much-needed reforms. It is not enough for us to abhor the costs of a misguided war, and yet allow ourselves to be driven by a politics of fear that sees the threat of attack as way to scare up votes instead of a call to come together around a common effort."

.... Ah, John bemoans poverty but voted for No Child Left Behind.  Clinton wants health care, but says she will include the health care industry in getting it (Obama has received more from Bigpharma than any other candidate).  Ah, fear, because Clinton recognizes real threats.  Oh, and Obama voted to fund the war how many times?

More Obama:

"And that is what is at stake in the great political debate we are having today. The changes that are needed are not just a matter of tinkering at the edges, and they will not come if politicians simply tell us what we want to hear.:

...uhm, I wonder.

The fact is this speech was LITTERED with POLITICS.   Politics on King's big holiday weekend.

From the horses mouth:

http://www.barackobama.com/2008/01/20/re marks_of_senator_barack_obam_40.php

I thought it was a good speech, but

1) it was too preachy (of course, it was in a church, but still, that is Obama's overall style now.

2) speeches like that are written by speech writers.  It does not tell us much about the candidate himself, although he probably had some input.  

3) most people are interested about how the economic crisis will be solved, how they can get food on the table in 3 months, how they can pay their mortgage.  While speeches that transcend issues have a place in this context, and I certainly enjoyed this speech in its own right, I don't see how it can move many votes, even if it were presented to a large majority of voters.  Something with more "meat" could perhaps achive that, like a televised townhall focusing strictly on economic issues.  

No it's not his trump card. How many people are going to sit and listen on you tube? College students? He already has this demographic.

It was on the the news here. They spent about 30 seconds on the speech and said is was a message of hope and unity.

Here's the problem as I see it:
He's preaching to the choir. This is the second time that he's come to GA both to downtown Atlanta. He's more or less not expanding his demographic.

Bill Clinton is coming and speaking at Mercer in Macon. This is what more politicians need to do. They need to come to Columbus and Savannah and Valdosta and other places in Ga outside of Atlanta.

Obama's trump card - him.  He is a great speaker and visionary.  

please.. youtube is not the country. most people still get their news from tv, radio and paper, not youtube.