Monday, October 27, 2008

A Tale of Three Ashleys.

A great post by Sean Quinn over at 538 -- that is, FiveThirtyEight.com, which you should all check out.

Money quote, actually from Obama's speech on race in America:

"I'm here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.

But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins.

And the video of that speech, "A More Perfect Union," which is definitely worth watching again:

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