Obama on Peace
I haven't heard or read the transcript of Obama's Peace Prize speech, but I did listen to a commentator talk about it the morning after, and since then, I've been meaning to dig up a copy and read it for myself. The two things that piqued my interest were the commentator's assertion that it was Obama's best speech so far as president, and his analysis of the way the speech was structured as a reply to MLK's Peace Prize speech.
So here are the two speeches. I would love if you read them both and told me what you think. As I said before, I have not read them yet, but I will, and I will post my feelings either in the comments here, or in a separate post later.
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I think MLK's was the better of the two speeches. Frankly, his speech sounded to me like justification for his continuing the war(s) in the Middle East. (For the record, even though I voted for him, I vocally disagree with him that we 'need' to be in Iraq or Afghanistan.) I like that he included 'just peace' as a topic, but that also (to me) implies that there is such a thing as 'just war', which I strongly disagree with. I just can't find any justification that the Christ of the Bible supports violence in any way - personal or corporate.
Interesting comparison. I think Obama's speech was about a 180 from MLK's.