Sen. Obama’s speech was masterful and … admitted what I said earlier.

Beyond the soaring rhetoric, you find this:

Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinitys services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

See the full text of his speech Here.

Barack Obama, to his credit, is no longer saying he has never heard the controversial statements. It didn’t pass the “giggle test” that he could be a member of a church for 20 years and not hear those statements … the ones the congregation agrees with so hardily, the ones they shout “Amen!” to. Not only are these comments heard in his church, but those of us engaged in political discourse hear them every day from white and black liberals alike. Obama makes a mistake in thinking it is only his African-American church that is spouting the negativity about America: it is in white America too. It is emblematic of today’s liberalism.

It is a fine speech, yet another masterpiece by the man I think may well be the next President of the United States. The invective and fury in the comments at Hot Air won’t stop him, because they appear too much to be the same as Rev. Wright’s but from the right. And the effusive praise of the speech by the left who agrees with Rev. Wright won’t be the factor that helps him over the top. The reason he may well be our next president is found in his words that will resonate with the American people:

I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Pattons Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. Ive gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the worlds poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

That is why Obama may be unbeatable. And that is why attempts from the right to marginalize him will fail. When people listen to him, they like him. In this respect he is like Reagan, who deflected a well-orchestrated campaign to paint him as a dangerous ideologue by shaking his head and saying “There you go again”. People saw a nice guy, not someone they thought was dangerous.

We know Sen. Obama was lying when he said he had never heard these comments from his church. He admits that now. I can only hope Barack is lying about immediate withdrawal from Iraq, sitting down with despots (when he won’t sit down with Fox News Sunday) and some of the other liberal stands he has taken. We know he lies, and perhaps he lies about these things.