James Grieves

James Grieves

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Obama Reaction

I have spent my adult life trying to bridge the gap in-between different types of people. That’s in my DNA…To insist that we follow mutual hopes and mutual dreams, as Americans and human beings.

Is he speaking my language? Yes, and so well I’m practically salivating here.

As it happens the speech is actually an exercise in damage control but somehow it doesn’t seem that way: Obama manages to turn this around into a contrast between the old methods of ramping up contrast and sprouting idiocy that black nationalism depended upon and his own, superior, offering. It is a feat that I can imagine few others achieving, with one of the select presently being reduced to comparing Barack to Jesse Jackson.

That comparison has never looked more foolish.

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