now *that* was oratory

[lauradi7dw]

"From Seneca to Selma to Stonewall..." I was downstairs listening on the radio, Arthur upstairs watching the TV, but we both felt that was the best line. I actually cheered while chopping kale. The power of 3, alliteration, and the assumption that the educated populace would recognize the place names for their respective historical importance in the continuity of struggles for equal rights - nothing else in the speech came close.

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[acw.livejournal.com]

When he said that, I was worried that his support for the quilt-bag was going to be limited to that one obscure reference, and I wanted more than dog-whistling. When he followed up with explicit support: "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law -- for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well." -- that was when I cheered.