It should also please East Belfast MLA Michael Copeland, who famously delivered a filibuster speech on the topicof welfare reform, and was rumoured to have been increasingly unhappy about the prospect of the UUP backing the bill once again.
Aside from offering the text in a valuably rich informational setting, they do something else: They keep the speech alive for days after its delivery as a topicof national discussion and reflection, and invite citizens to dig in.
Barack Obama's speech to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference raised the combustible topicof the burning anger among the nation's poor African-Americans.