{"id":77993,"date":"2015-10-29T15:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77993"},"modified":"2015-10-29T15:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:38:45","slug":"the-brilliance-of-obamas-2008-race-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77993","title":{"rendered":"The Brilliance Of Obama&#8217;s 2008 Race Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080319140909\/http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjI3MWMyOGFkNmQ2MGFjNzRhYzYwMGVhZWJhMjcyOGM=\">Charles Murray writes for NRO&#8217;s The Corner in 2008<\/a>: &#8220;I read the various posts here on &#8220;The Corner,&#8221; mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama&#8217;s speech. Then I figured I&#8217;d better read the text (I tried to find a video of it, but couldn&#8217;t). I&#8217;ve just finished. Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I&#8217;m concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant&#8211;rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we&#8217;re used to from our pols&#8230;. But you know me. Starry-eyed Obama groupie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray writes for NRO&#8217;s The Corner in 2008: &#8220;I read the various posts here on &#8220;The Corner,&#8221; mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama&#8217;s speech. Then I figured I&#8217;d better read the text (I tried to find a video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-charles-murray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77994,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993\/revisions\/77994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}