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In reply to the discussion: Obama is giving the speech liberals have begged him to give for four years. [View all]Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)48. "...Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall..."
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We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
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Obama is giving the speech liberals have begged him to give for four years. [View all]
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
Are you not grasping parallels between today's protests and past (Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall?
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2013
#77
In other words, you couldn't answer my question so you resort to lame insults.
forestpath
Jan 2013
#27
All you did was take the opportunity to condescend. Another poster managed to answer me
forestpath
Jan 2013
#40
Oh, please. You posted personally to me in the same message, don't know why you'd deny it.
forestpath
Jan 2013
#43
Aww, thank you for the affirmation, xtracritical. I appreciate it very much. :-)
Melinda
Jan 2013
#72
You may very well be right. But just think how much more enjoyable DU could be if every question...
Melinda
Jan 2013
#71
Whatever the President may want to do he still has this lame obstructionist RepubliCON Congress
xtraxritical
Jan 2013
#57