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A More Perfect Union Analysis

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On March 18, 2008 Senator Barack Obama, soon to be president, delivered the speech titled “ A More Perfect Union” near the historical site of the constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The speech was a response to a video of Barack Obama’s Reverend making racially charged comments against American and Israel. The Senator begins by elaborating on the statement founding fathers of America made in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence “ ......all men are created equal....” the idea was present but the practice was not.Continuing on to speak about the good qualities of the Reverend and in a way qualifying his behavior, a good man who had lived through a time of racial strife, a time of segregation and laws against him
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