October 11, 200916 yr Active Members For those who want to hear Obama's speech to the HRC today (10/10), CSPAN will be rerunning it Sunday (11th) sometime in the afternoon. Among other things Obama explicitly reaffirmed that he would (eventually) put an end to DADT. Brief analysis of Obama's speech
October 11, 200916 yr Active Members For those who want to hear Obama's speech to the HRC today (10/10), CSPAN will be rerunning it Sunday (11th) sometime in the afternoon. Among other things Obama explicitly reaffirmed that he would (eventually) put an end to DADT. Brief analysis of Obama's speech Moving speech. Let's wait and see what becomes of it.
October 15, 200916 yr Moving speech. Let's wait and see what becomes of it. As I noted elsewhere, Brown v Board of Education was moving. Until people saw how "all deliberate speed" was interpreted and implemented: take your sweet damned time. I all but smelt the stench of that phrase hovering over Obama's remarks. More broadly, the question does start to take shape: Will Obama turn out to be a president who senses just how fast the public is willing to move, then does all he can to the very edge of that possibility and just beyond -- a la Doris Kearns Goodwin's portrayal of Lincoln that BO so admired? Or will he be another Carter? Or, say, a Wilson?
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