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If that speech doesn't help Obama, I don't know what will. Intelligently written, movingly delivered. He engaged in a little bit of mixed messaging on affirmative action, welfare and crime, both acknowledging that they are legitmate issues while also implying that they tied the Reagan coalition to something illegitimate.
The genius of Barack Obama is that he is able to take the concerns of people who disagree with him, summarize those concerns fairly and eloquently, accept and affirm the goodness of their motives -- and then politely restate his original liberal position. That genius was on display today.
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