President Obama?

Greetings Gentle Reader,

I would highly recommend that you take half an hour or so to listen to Barak Obama's speech that can be found below, or at this link.

Now I am not American, but lets face the fact that the leadership choices of the USA have ripple effects across the globe, and particularly here in Canada since our nations are so interconnected. If you at all know me or follow this blog you know that I would probably fall into the Democrat party if I were a US resident.

The thing that I find so fascinating about this speech, is that by all reports Mr Obama wrote the thing himself. Given the past 7.5 years of bumbling, semi-literate speech-reading by Mr Bush Jr, it is a breath of fresh air that there might be someone in the wings who not only can deliver a speech, but can write one that is as thoughtful, levelheaded and frankly moving as this one.

I hope our neighbours to the south recognize this.

Edit: A few days later I saw the Daily Show response to this speech.  Also worth watching... the last line is cut off: "...spoke to americans about race as though they were adults".

Best

Steve