Obama’s Best Speech: Religion and Politics
This is the best speech I have heard from Barack Obama and the best speech I have heard in a long time from a politician. Obama addresses the relationship between faith and politics in the United States. He issues a challenges to both liberals and conservatives. As a Christian, it is about time someone said this.
Part 1: 9 minutes, 49 seconds
Part 2: 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Part 3: 9 minutes, 44 seconds
Part 4: 7 minutes, 42 seconds
Part 5: 3 minutes, 59 seconds
April 28, 2007 at 5:29 am
[...] to have a high proportion of interesting links is called Think on These Things. Today there was a post which contained a speech by Barack Obama on Religion and Politics. In the speech Barack Obama calls us to discuss the role of religion in our society. We need to [...]
April 28, 2007 at 4:41 pm
[...] watched a speech that he made about religion’s place in politics and I can say that he is eloquent, rational [...]
April 29, 2007 at 2:03 am
[...] I predict that we will hear more over the course of this election cycle about bringing people together and getting rid of the deep religious divides. I believe Barack Obama will be leading this effort to unite Americans. He and other candidates will be speaking soon at some major religious events such as the Sojourner’s conference. The media from this I believe may spur a debate for the better I hope about morality and what it means for our politics, as Obama laid out in his 2006 speech. [...]
April 30, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[...] Barak Obama, candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in the USA, made this speech on Religion and Politics. It’s well worth half an hour of your [...]
June 2, 2007 at 3:53 am
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September 15, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Just curious…. is the gap at the beginning of section three of the above speech there as a matter of editorial disagreement or technical malfunction? Seems to me that he may have had a salient point concerning the rights (or interpretation thereof) of Americans to own firearms…. but as soon as he says “… but I also believe…” it cuts off and skips to his next point.
In any event, I don’t imagine that even if it is editorial that it truly makes a difference, as I am quite sure any viewers could find another copy of the video or a transcript on the net. And certainly the editor of the site can edit the video however they see fit.
Just wanted to point out the discrepency in the video.
September 15, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Hi Ed,
Good observation! I actually didn’t notice that when I watched it. I didn’t edit anything. This video is readily available on Youtube. It clearly was edited though by whoever put up the video–and it wasn’t the Obama campaign.
I just found the transcript on the Barack Obama Senate site. The part that was edited out was:
“Solving these problems will require changes in government policy, but it will also require changes in hearts and a change in minds. I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturers’ lobby - but I also believe that when a gang-banger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels somebody disrespected him, we’ve got a moral problem. There’s a hole in that young man’s heart - a hole that the government alone cannot fix.”