Goddamn it, Shearer, you’ve got it all wrong.
Obama’s speech ended with a ringing evocation of three words he claimed were emblematic in the life of the nation: “Yes, We Can”; and the crowd joined in chanting those words in response. But, in their turning away from a “man-made engineering disaster” (in the words of UC Berkeley’s Dr. Bob Bea), in their turning away from a city that was betrayed by its country twice—in the faulty construction of a “protective system” and in the refusal to follow the letter of the nation’s own National Response Plan when that system failed, the candidates, Obama included, are paying silent tribute to the three words that more accurately describe America’s contemporary approach to problems: We Moved On.
Don’t you get it, man?
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