"America Wants to Move Forward"

Steve Benen laments the lack of coverage given to President Obama's speech at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh Wednesday, so here is the full speech in video and transcript. Enjoy, and pass it on.

Benen's summary:

As a practical matter, the speech will go unnoticed by most of the country, and the media seems to have largely deemed it unimportant. That's a shame -- the speech, among other things, offered a very strong hint about the campaign message we'll likely hear the rest of the year, made one of the more pointed critiques of the Republican Party we've heard in a while, and included some strong policy language about pending legislation.

Full text of the speech here.