Mark Steyn: Obama's surrender
National Review
Four score and seven years ago
No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDRs First Inaugural, or JFKs religion speech, or (if like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you find those comparisons drearily obvious) Lincolns Cooper Union speech of 1860. And, of course, the Senators speech does share one quality with Cooper Union, Gettysburg, the FDR Inaugural, Henry V at Agincourt, Socratess Apology, etc: Its history. He said, apropos the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that I could no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother. But last week he did disown him. So, great-speech-wise, its a bit like Churchill promising to fight them on the beaches and never surrender, and then surrendering a month and a half later, and on a beach he decided not to fight on. . . .
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Posted by: Mike 2008-05-04 |