Speechless

Obama's speech will go down in history as one of the best modern speeches about America's ongoing racial divide and the failure to address the roots of it.
- Dallas Morning News

For a 40 minute speech, my mind didn't wander. I watched it mesmerized by his power to capture the essence of a complex and controversial subject. He stated in more eloquent terms everything I had previously thought about the racial divide in America. He just gets it. And what's more, he gets how to convey it. He managed to take a divisive issue and talk about it rationally, calmly, and thoroughly. Notice how the crowd is silent for nearly the duration of the speech. His speeches make you speechless, and that is why he needs to be president. If he can connect with Americans as he does so well, unite them in the way he has his entire campaign, maybe we have a chance at solving the problems that plague us. Maybe we have a chance at moving the country forward. Maybe we finally have a chance.