Opinion: Murray and O’Bama: Maybe it’s the Irish connection
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As if Campaign ’08 were not bizarre enough, Barack Obama’s race ‘n’ Wright speech gets even Charles Murray (yes that Charles Murray) swooning like a bobbysoxer. From NRO’s The Corner:
I read the various posts here on ‘The Corner,’ mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama’s speech. Then I figured I’d better read the text (I tried to find a video of it, but couldn’t). I’ve just finished. Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I’m concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant—rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we’re used to from our pols.... But you know me. Starry-eyed Obama groupie.
Thanks to Jesse Walker, who demands that Obama distance himself from Murray.