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Obama’s Cairo Speech.
05-Jun-09I thought about this a lot as I heard older folk talk about the presidential campaign: what a gift the internet is, to deliver us from what used to be called journalism. Here’s the full video and transcript of the Obama speech in Cairo. It’s quite extraordinary if looked at in full.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/02/us/politics/200900604_OBAMA_CAIRO.html