Friday, October 9, 2009

Peace's Prize - A tale of two acceptance speeches...

OBAMA

"This is not how I expected to wake up this morning..." "...and then Sasha added, plus we have a three day weekend coming up." Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, October 9 2009.


DR. KING JR.

"I'm mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham Alabama, our children crying out for brotherhood were met with fire hoses, snarling dogs and death," Martin Luther King, junior, accepts the same prize, December 10, 1964. Full speech here.



*Heads Nodding to the Portland Mercury Blog

2 comments:

Zj said...

Via Saturday Night Live ("SNL" for short):

Armisen as Obama: "This came without warning, I didn't even get a call as due to the time difference in Norway, the Nobel people didn't want to wake me up. I wish they had, I could have said to Hillary Clinton, 'Hey, remember that 3 a.m. call you were so worried about? It happened. Nobel Peace Prize."

... said...

Nice. Good share.