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"These people are a part of me"

Please read the whole speech -- it's long and it's powerful and it's also controversial and, based on a quick read, it's going to strengthen the resolve of his supporters yet at the same time give talk radio another six weeks of polarization winter.

OK, people, here's a non-Drudge version, because God knows all the traffic from Attytood is propping up that faltering operation down there!

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Please read the whole speech -- it's long and it's powerful and it's also controversial and, based on a quick read, it's going to strengthen the resolve of his supporters yet at the same time give talk radio another six weeks of polarization winter.

I honestly can't predict how the American heartland will react, but I do think America will be talking about this morning's speech -- like JFK in 1960 -- for generations to come. What happens in the next hour may cost Barack Obama the presidency -- or it may hand him the keys to the White House.