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orichalcum at 09:22pm on 22/01/2008 under politics
orichalcum at 09:22pm on 22/01/2008 under politicsis the fourth most popular video on Youtube.
It's really a brilliant - and policy-specific - speech. He has this wonderful metaphor that we are the Joshua Generation - the ones who can build the promised land after the initial path has been taken by Moses and Miriam and Aaron. The implicit comparison is that the Boomer Generation made the greater leaps and greater sacrifices, but is too caught up in old struggles and mistakes to build the new Jerusalem. It's a very clever way of using Judeo-Christian imagery and honoring the civil rights movement while simultaneously arguing for new leadership and a new beginning.
He's a good preacher - and he's very, very smart.
EDIT: For those who have read the transcript online - that's just the short version that was released by the Obama campaign. It's like 1/5th of the speech, and the rest is way better. Watch the whole thing - seriously.
It's really a brilliant - and policy-specific - speech. He has this wonderful metaphor that we are the Joshua Generation - the ones who can build the promised land after the initial path has been taken by Moses and Miriam and Aaron. The implicit comparison is that the Boomer Generation made the greater leaps and greater sacrifices, but is too caught up in old struggles and mistakes to build the new Jerusalem. It's a very clever way of using Judeo-Christian imagery and honoring the civil rights movement while simultaneously arguing for new leadership and a new beginning.
He's a good preacher - and he's very, very smart.
EDIT: For those who have read the transcript online - that's just the short version that was released by the Obama campaign. It's like 1/5th of the speech, and the rest is way better. Watch the whole thing - seriously.
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