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And this, then will bring us to the stark choice Kerry v. Bush could not: are we adult enough as a nation to actually listen to what the candidates say, rather than what our compromised media want to show us? Can America resist the siren song of form over substance offered by the guardians of all that has failed us? And finally, in the battle between reason and instinct, can we as a nation rise above the muck?
If this speech -- perhaps the best and most courageous in a superb and brave campaign -- cannot do it, nothing can. If this speech does not stop the Wright madness, America will then truly be the place Jeremiah Wright accused it of being.
I no longer question whether Obama deserves to be president. The question is whether America still deserves to have him.
