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From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic comes the reporting that Obama wrote his speech on race and America himself. Reports Ambinder: This wasn't a speech by committee... Obama wrote the speech himself, working on it for two days and nights.... and showed it to only a few of his top advisers. picked by maxriter 8 months ago tags obama politics speech discrimination |
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Barack Obama's powerful speech on race has become the latest YouTube phenomenon, attracting more than two million hits in less than two days. picked by maxriter 8 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
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Freedom of Speech is one of America's greatest rights. Sadly it is a very rare freedom. Many countries - even countries you'd expect to be freedom-lovers say no to free speech. Oh you have the right to say nice sweet things, but you can't say anything mean or negative, anything that might hurt a group's feelings. 10 comments edit related share worldwasn't going to post this, but it fit in with the salon owner article picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago |
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People seem to be talking about it so I guess it deserves to be on plime. picked by gammerus 8 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
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This is a trippy perceptual phenomenon which will mess with your head a little bit. Sine wave speech is artificially degraded speech that sounds like just beeps and whistles until you have been primed to hear it as speech. Try it, you will be amazed! picked by mahler87 10 months ago 17 comments edit related share science |
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Here's the complete text in downloadable PDF of Obama's speech. My personal opinion is that McCain's speech was better. picked by neilharvey 2 weeks ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
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Mr. McCain’s speech was watched by 38.9 million viewers on the three broadcast networks, three cable news channels, and two Spanish-language channels, according to Nielsen. That figure is slightly ahead of the 38.3 million who watched Mr. Obama last Thursday on those eight channels plus BET and TV One. -NY Times picked by ImNotBlue 2 months ago 8 comments edit related share politics |
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I want to share this with those that haven't seen this movie or forgot about it. I just watched is in the weekend and I think that it is a great "talkie" movie that is quite actual in its topics, considering the struggles of the current societies. 0 comments edit related share plime.comThe video is the end speech of the movie. picked by Lighioana 12 months ago |
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The Obama campaign announced the giveaway moments before the former presidents speech drawing many of the attendees away. 8 comments edit related share plime.com"I was leaning toward Obama, but this sealed the deal for sure," one student said. picked by coldbladed 8 months ago |
