Youtube of Vermont Baptist Service

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I'll put up the transcript when I see it/get it. First part of youtube in the post, click through to get the other 2 parts. UPDATE: Transcript is up.
http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=1031


The First Family attended services at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church this morning, a church founded by seven freed slaves in 1866. Dr King, whose photo was on the cover of the church program, delivered a sermon in 1956 after the Montgomery bus boycott and in 1968 entitled, “In search of a sense of direction” that the President would incorporate into his remarks, asking “where do we go from here”.Rev Cornelius Wheeler welcomed the President to the services which included a reading from the Book of Psalms and choir hymns “We’ll Understand It Better By and By” and “How Great is Our God”, which had the President tapping his feet and nodding his head.

Rev Wheeler stepped to the podium and addressed the congregation, “In case you haven’t noticed, some important stuff is happening here today.” Apparently he is the proud grandpa of a new baby granddaughter. “And oh, by the way, President Obama is here.” Rev Wheeler announced the church’s Haiti relief efforts and notified the congregation of a special offering next week, adding “To whom much is given, much is required,” he said

He also put in a little political commentary, saying, “I don’t know about the political correctness of this next statement, but it took eight years for them to mess everything up, I don’t know why they don’t have a little more patience while you fix it.” And then, “I’m peacock proud and tickled pink to present to you your President of these United States, President Obama.”

In another of what always seems to be the best speech yet, the President reminded us that, in spite of the election of an African-American president, America has not entered into a post-racial age, and that “Even after one of the country’s worse recessions, life in America isn’t even close to being as bad as it was (for African-Americans) doing King’s time.” He reminded all of us of what it took to make the Civil Rights Movement a success, a our generation that was called to “buckle down and get back to basics” along with Dr King’s focus on his goal, and “his eyes were always on the prize.”

He also admitted that he can get impatient with the slow nature of progress. “Some ask, ‘Why are you so calm?’ I have a confession to make. Sometimes I’m not so calm. Reggie Love knows this. Michelle knows this,” POTUS said, adding that he sometimes he gets impatient with the slow nature of progress. “It’s faith that keeps me going,” he said.