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A Deficit of Empathy - Barack Obama

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Uploaded by on Jan 18, 2009

Excerpt from Obama's speech on January 20, 2008 at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Accompanied by Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with painting and artwork by Spadecaller.

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  • This is the man we overwhelmingly elected. Where is he and how do we remind him of whom he told us he would be....Its time to be in Washington sounding this out day and night until he remembers whom he told us he must be and that we are committed to helping him by being all we can be in order to support him in being this person and not the fraud we have seen lately!

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    I agree.

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  • Goosebumps...Words are very powerful in changing people's reality. May he be heard.

  • Mercy! What an infuriating, enlightening and completely honest assessment. That was absolutely wonderful Spadecaller! You're the best!

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  • Wow, I hadn't heard this speech. I haven't felt REPRESENTED like this since Bobby.

  • "Empathy is a key to the other persons inner-world. Opens a door that begins with a superficial journey and ends with a deep understanding of their most profound desires "

  • It's amazing that we live in a world where words like this can still be heard and accepted despite all the hatred, atrocities, and flaws. It's makes me very happy!

  • March 26,2009? wtf

  • How do we engage this decent, humane part of Obama?

    Obama now has innocent blood of civilians on his hands from his Predator attacks. Now, he is stepping up the killing in Pakistan & sending 30,000 more US troops into Afghanistan to kill and to be killed. On war, Obama has drunken deeply of the cool-aid of slaughter. Again, how can we engage Obama's decent side? Perhaps we need to start now to tell Obama that he will NOT be renominated unless he works for peace, rather than more killing.

  • Thanks for creating and posting this, Spadecaller.

    Very moving, articulate and timely speech.

    Come join the peace train!

    As Benjamin Franklin said in America's beginning days,

    "We must hang together...

    else we shall most assuredly hang separately."

  • A very good prelude to his inaguration speech to come one year later. He seems to see things so clearly and then you feel his response is truly from his heart. This was a heavy message delivered eloquently.

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