On April 27, 2008, at an NAACP Dinner, Reverend Jeremiah Wright offered his first public speech since the controversy surrounding his sermons became the subject of national attention. As conservative commentators watched for signs of new controversy, perhaps taking momentary pleasure as Wright broached the uncontroversial (and eighteenth century) subject of differences in African and European brain physiology, it quickly became clear that Wright wanted to tackle the subject of race relations by joking about funny accents, singing and dancing, and then lamely pleading that we should all just get along.

On April 22, 2008, Hillary Clinton scored a “double-digit” 9.3% win over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. On the eve of victory, she delivered a powerful address that will go down in history as the speech she happened to give that night. As always, for the prose you hate, we annotate.

President Bush sets forth a bold environmental plan, one which builds on his do-nothing strategy to combat global warming, by setting a national goal that we do nothing for another seventeen years. Such a bold speech deserves another installment of our annotated series.

Our Annotated Series continues–this time with the testimony of General Petraeus before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Come for the annotations, stay for the graphs.

Barack Obama’s historic speech on race and politics is hard to skim. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an annotated version? Something like cliff notes? This post includes the full text of the speech, but for those of you who don’t have the time to read the full version, please enjoy my annotations. It’s my audacious hope that skimming the annotations will inspire some people to read the full version, who wouldn’t otherwise.