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Posted by: Vaughan1 | March 18, 2008 03:42 PM

What I heard in that speech and have heard many times before from Obama was a man who was capable of hearing many things from many people - including the outrageous. A capability of sifting through the words to extract the "right" things while having a tolerance to sit through the outrageous words in order to seek out the basis for where they are coming from. Unlike many, he clearly sees both the good and the bad in Rev Wright and understands how Rev Wright arrived at the place he did.

Whether the president is hearing Republicans vs Democrats, Jews vs Muslims, white vs black, etc, Obama, with his candidacy on the line, seems to be unafraid of looking deeper beyond the anger and the rhetoric to try to understand the whole of a man - good & bad and/or his issue and not outright ignore or shun him because he doesn't feel exactly the same way. And at the end of that, Obama stayed true to his honest judgement of what is good, ideal and "right" regardless of what others like the conservative right might think. Obama seems to indicate each side of an issue will get fair consideration while no side will get excluded because they're not perfect. I've seen this long before the Rev Wright problem. It's just a little more obvious with Rev. Wright.

Can you imagine a president without those qualities? We've had some. I think Barack proved once again today that he is especially blessed in this quality. It was a remarkable speech.


Posted by: cjnwatson | March 18, 2008 03:43 PM

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