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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Obama answered his critics
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It was an audacious plan, but he pulled it off. Even though expectations were dizzyingly high, Barack Obama met them.
Critics said he tends to be too vague, so he gave details.
Critics said he tends to be too lofty and cerebral, but he connected with plainspoken rhetoric.
Critics said he is a wimp who couldn’t throw a punch, but McCain must have felt a couple of those left hooks.
Game on!
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Lewis remembers 45 years ago
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One of the most sought-after figures at this convention has been Atlanta’s own John Lewis, congressman and revered civil rights hero, whose remarkable career connects the civil rights movement with last night’s awe-inspiring nomination of the first black presidential candidate from a major political party.
I saw Lewis in the lobby of the hotel just now, and he said, “I’ve cried so many tears over the last couple of days that I’m cried out. I gave an interview just now and I just lost it. It was at 1 p.m. exactly 45 years ago,” he said, when Lewis, a student civil rights leader, stood to give his speech at the March on Washington.
Later, on that steamy August day, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech, one of the most awesome pieces of rhetoric in American history, right up there with the Gettysburg address. This is, indeed, a day to just savor and celebrate this remarkable “only in America” moment, to acknowledge the remarkable social and cultural transformation this country has accomplished in a short 45 years.
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