President Obama joined us yesterday. Now I'll join him.

[Prism]

8. In this case, I think the words were a deed.

You know I'm with you on the "Great speech, now show me the policy!" front.

However, I think we're seeing a rare case where the words have a significance all their own that your average speech does not. If the words didn't have that significance, it wouldn't have taken the President so long to say them. There are going to be a lot of political and social implications stemming from this. What the President has done, like or not, is hitched our fate to his. If he loses after saying those words, it will reflect on us and affect the future course of our war for equality.

So I think yesterday's words really mattered.

But you know I'm going to be right next to you in pushing for the policies.