Don't miss Barack Obama speaking LIVE @12:30PM EST on C-Span from Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, AL

[flpoljunkie]

Obama's speech, to commemorate "Bloody Sunday" is scheduled to begin at 12:30PM EST and last approximately thirty minutes, according to the C-Span schedule below.

12:30 PM EST
0:30 (est.) LIVE
Speech
Civil Rights Issues
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, AL)
Barack Obama , D, Illinois

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp



The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They were the culmination of the movement in Selma, Alabama for voting rights, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband, who brought many prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Bevel, and Hosea Williams. "Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. Only the third, and last, march successfully made it into Montgomery. The route is memorialized as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/ObamaHQ/

[flpoljunkie]

1. Four of Spider Martin's celebrated Bloody Sunday photos below.

This man, Jim Leatherer walked the entire forty miles


John Lewis being beaten by a highway patrolman

[Eurobabe]

6. It's on now...preliminary group introductions

of groups in the House.

[flpoljunkie]

2. CNN talkingheads excited about dueling Selma speeches. Will evidently carry both speeches live.

[flpoljunkie]

3. C-Span coverage already started. Rep. John Lewis is now speaking.

Evidently, the collection plate is being passed around. Lewis joked that if they did not have any money, to borrow it from their neighbor, and then pay it back.

[Learn2Swim]

4. I'm tuned in...

Barack is already up there, I guess it's starting soon. :)

[IndianaGreen]

5. I am watching it as I post

I am eager to hear his non-partisan words on this solemn and important commemoration.

[DesertRat]

7. thanks. I have it on right now. n/t

[rocktivity]

8. Looks like we'll have to listen to a bunch of local VIPs first.

Think I'll run out and get the Sunday paper.

:headbang:
rocknation

[rocktivity]

12. Perfect timing, LOL!

Obama's on the dias now--looks like we've got one muckety-muck to go!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Kahuna]

9. The look on Barack's face when Bis. Kirkland compared him to JFK

was priceless. :applause:

[IndianaGreen]

11. Obama offers the promise of a New Frontier, as JFK did

while a certain Senator running for President can only offer a return to the past, and all the baggage that that entails.

[Kahuna]

33. I'm feeling Obama and his message. We need someone new and

different with wisdom and humility to bring us forth and to dispel the bushco taint upon our collective soul as a nation.

[IndianaGreen]

10. "Show me a John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and I'll show you Barack Obama"

Words of Bishop T. Larry Kirkland.

[flpoljunkie]

13. The Rev. Joseph Lowery now speaking.

Before Rev. Lowery, Obama received quite a send up from the Rev. Bishop Kirkland who invoked "executive privilege" to speak today, according to the pastor of the Selma AME Church.

The Re. Josephy Lowery is now speaking; he is the Co-Founder of the SCLC. Says he turned down an offer to speak across the street to come speak to these "crazy folks."

Rev. Lowery is quite the character and a wonderful speaker. He spoke truth to power at Coretta Scott King's service last year, as I recall.

[flpoljunkie]

14. Rep. John Lewis now speaking. Why do we come here? Why do we continue to walk across the bridge?

[flpoljunkie]

15. ...to be renewed, to be inspired, to say...thank you, lord.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

16. What song are they singing?

wow the solo singer is awesome!

[DesertRat]

18. "Order My Steps" n/t

[DesertRat]

17. Rep Lewis was very moving. People in tears

"42 years ago if someone had told me that one day, when I was walking across that bridge being beaten, having a concussion, that I would be standing here as a member of the House of Rep. I'd say you were crazy, you're out of your mind. But all things are possible with God."

[flpoljunkie]

19. Rep. Artur Davis, rep. Burmingham, Tuscaloosa, Selma, who has endorsed Obama, introducing him.

[Eurobabe]

20. Giving a great intro so far....

[Learn2Swim]

21. gobama

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[flpoljunkie]

22. Obama now speaking.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

23. he's halting a lot in his speech

not really fluid

[flpoljunkie]

24. He's just getting started. He just now kicked it up a notch.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

25. yeah this is more like it nt

[Eurobabe]

27. He's using Church 'cadence'

I don't see it as halting at all.

[Pithy Cherub]

26. T Larry Kirkland was my pastor for years in LA!

Barack is doing extremely well and the story about how Selma helped change minds in Africa is pure poetry.

Gotta see the replay this has been so good!

[elizm]

28. He does not disappoint!

Does Hillary have to follow this?!!! If so, I'm getting the popcorn ready! :)

[flpoljunkie]

32. "Be strong and have courage and let us cross that bridge together." - Barack Obama

[Kahuna]

29. Great speech. Too bad not enough Americans will see it.

:applause:

[Dinger]

30. It's On CNN & C-Span So Far

Much to the loss of the other cable channels and networks. I wonder if it is on the radio?

[Pithy Cherub]

31. Shockingly CNN is carrying the whole thing...

:wow:

They are overlaying Obama's words with pictures from Bloody Sunday...

[elizm]

34. Unbelievable...

I have yet to hear Obama speak (including in person a few weeks ago) when my eyes have not filled with tears. WHO can inspire like that? This man MUST be our next President.