Obama's Speech in Springfield, Honoring Lincoln's Bicentennial.
President Barack Obama delivered this speech in Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 2009. If you missed it, I recommend you check it out. Skillful, eloquent, moving, unifying. Obama at his best. Here is the video link courtesy MSNBC and Keith Olbermann. Here is an excerpt: I cannot know if I am right. But I suspect that his devotion to union came not from a belief that government always had the answer. It came not from a failure to understand our individual rights and responsibilities. This rugged rail-splitter, born in a log cabin of pioneer stock; who cleared a path through the woods as a boy; who lost a mother and a sister to the rigors of frontier life; who taught himself all he knew – this man, our first Republican President, knew, better than anyone, what it meant to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. He understood that strain of personal liberty and self-reliance at the heart of the American experience. But he also understood something else. He recognized that while each o...