Just watch it.

Please, take a few minutes out of your life and watch this speech. If you are not moved, I will give you your money back.



There is a reason Dr. King is honored with a holiday. And this speech is the direct heir to his legacy. And the reason I say this is something Obama would never dream of bringing up. Dr. King, in August 1963, spoke:

"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

Obama is the living example of that speech. He is that little black boy and that little white boy as one. And by challenging both races so directly, he is examining his own legacy. And while it is complicated it is ultimately transcendent . He may not win this battle against the Clinton political machine, but he will live to fight another day.