I think that was the biggest moment of Obama's consecration.
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Dear Sir, I believe the whole point of the long pause was to be dramatic, in order to add a certain gravitas to the statement. OR if you will, to let us the audience wonder 'is he gonna say it?!!'. And as far as the mention of Plestinian dreams in America being brave, sadly it may have become so.

It broke a taboo to speak at a big outdoor event in Washington, D.C. and acknowledge that Palestinians are people too. The last person to do it was Paul Wolfowitz when he spoke at a big pro-Israel rally in 2002... and he was booed.

I remember that video well. It was his one redeeming act. Might even rise to the level of J. Edgar Hoover trying to talk FDR out of setting up the Japanese internment camps.

don't see Obama uncomfortable there. he understands. AND we only need to let him know the congress is by now out of sync with the public--the public backed Palestine this time around. i believe this is first time the public has done so in this long drawn out conflict. i mean the public opinion, not the elite opinion.

What an egotistical exhibitionist who can't sing. I agree with peace to all but that wasn't the place for this man to prance around and try to take over the show. He's a has been who can't accept it.

But NOT at concert in a foreign land where you are an invited guest, no matter how close or respected you are by your host.

Palestine was there yesterday, it's there today, and it will be front and center tomorrow. We don't need Bono giving a shout-out on a day of optimism for the American people.

A day for Obama, for Biden, their families. Not for Bono to lecture.

I was proud of Bono for his brief mention that Palestinians, as well as Americans, have a dream of freedom and equality. There are few in the public space who have been brave enough to tackle the subject, and it was bold for Bono to mention it at a celebration of the promise of America.

The United States has always struggled with a peculiar dualism and we are uncomfortable when it is pointed out. On the one hand, we labored to build a country based on the principles of freedom and justice for all. On the other, we enslaved an entire race. That such a dark evil could coexist with soaring ideals is, well, our all too human failing as a nation. We continue to fail today with the Palestinians.

I fear that history will judge that we were not on the right side of that struggle. I'm afraid we are not on the side of freedom. Not on the side of equality. It will take huge moral courage and leadership to confront our bewildering darkness, but we must confront it. I hope the Obama administration will be the ones to start.