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Paper towel, Marc?

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 8:54pm — lambert

Marc Ambinder on Obama's Fort Hood speech. "I guarantee: They'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes."

Truer words. What is it with these blogger boiz?

And how's that decision on Af-Pak coming?

NOTE Via Reclusive Leftist.

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I don't know which is worse...

By madamab on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 9:42pm

Obama's purported decision to send 40,000 more troops into our Afghanamire, or his constant assertions that he has not, in fact, made any decision whatsoever.

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Isn't one of them required to

By Valhalla on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 9:44pm

say that, about each of his speeches?

Or maybe there's some sort of overall quota. I just don't know about all these fauxgressive membership rules.

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-Malcolm Reynolds, “Serenity”

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Well, WAS the speech any good?

By jumpjet on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:43pm

I've ceased to care enough about Obama's speeches to actually listen to them. Maybe it really was well-written and well-delivered.

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Jingoism

By nihil obstet on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 12:23pm

We are a nation that is dedicated to the proposition that all men and women are created equal. We live that truth within our military, and see it in the varied backgrounds of those we lay to rest today. We defend that truth at home and abroad, and we know that Americans will always be found on the side of liberty and equality. That is who we are as a people.

And we're so dedicated to the rule of law:

We are a nation of laws whose commitment to justice is so enduring that we would treat a gunman and give him due process, just as surely as we will see that he pays for his crimes.

See, now, the problem for all those people held in Guantanamo is that they weren't gunmen. I mean is our commitment to justice so enduring that we'll give a taxi driver due process just as surely as we will see that he pays for his crimes?

I'm sorry, but this speech struck me as just unusually hollow. I need to meditate more on the fact that I'll always be found on the side of liberty and equality because that's who I am as a person.

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