Obama's Speech: "A More Perfect Union"

Noting his proximity to Independence Hall, Obama emphasised the stress between the ideals of identical citizenship and flexibility conveyed in the Constitution and America's annals of slavery, and attached the municipal conflict and municipal privileges action with the goals of his own crusade, "to extend the long stride of those who came before us, a stride for a more just, more identical, more free, more nurturing and more prosperous America." (The Los Angeles Times 2008)

Obama recounted his own family annals, asserting that "in no other homeland on Earth is my article even possible" and attached ...