Obama's speech

I must admit I stayed home late this morning, to watch Barack Obama's speech.

My thoughts while listening to it - after having read a bit of it published shortly before his address - is that is was -- is -- a classic, historic, American speech. Obama pulled no punches, evaded no words: he spoke about Race in America. About his white grandmother openly fearful of black men she passed on the street while walking with him, about her using epiteths in front of him that he says still sting.

He admitted that working white people are angered and fearful of the attempts at good and equality that have been created to "help" blacks at their expense, even though they have nothing to do with our country's failings or even if their own ancestors had nothing to do with slavery or institutionalized oppression -- and that that is unfair.

A straghtforward, well-spoken, and balanced tone of a speech - magnanimous - when we have become so accustomed to the mumbled emotional whining of the Right.