3:22 PM Tue, Mar 18, 2008 | Permalink Jeremy Desel
I just recieved this from the Obama campaign. It is the text of Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race delivered in Philadelphia this morning.
"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 of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through ...