obama A More Perfect union

Bakack Obama 20080318
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbKG

"A More Perfect Union" 20080318
Post from Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/person/gGxtkQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23691239#23691239

As Prepared for Delivery...
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words,

launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to

escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of

1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a que