Barack Obama’s speech on race, given earlier this week in Philadelphia, is probably the best speech a politician has given in my lifetime. There is here honesty about race and media and politics at a level that is absolutely unprecedented on the national stage—every American should watch this.

(On YouTube in four parts)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Here’s what Andrew Sullivan had to say about it:

It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history.

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I have never felt more convinced that this man's candidacy – not this man, his candidacy – and what he can bring us to achieve – is an historic opportunity. This was a testing; and he did not merely pass it by uttering safe bromides. He addressed the intimate, painful love he has for an imperfect and sometimes embittered man. And how that love enables him to see that man's faults and pain as well as his promise. This is what my faith is about. It is what the Gospels are about. This is a candidate who does not merely speak as a Christian. He acts like a Christian.

After watching this, I consider the nomination fight currently going on in the Democratic party and one impression stands out clearer than the rest – Hillary Clinton is finding herself on the wrong side of an historical, even singular moment in American history.

There’s no lingering doubt in my mind: this man will make a magnificent President.