I liked it. I watched all of it, it's only 19 minutes. You can click here to watch it.
Here's my take on what President
Obama said: let's be a country of people who work hard to succeed, work hard to
cooperate with each other for the success of all of us, work hard to succor the
truly needy, and work hard to do what's right for the common good and for
future generations.
I think that's a wonderful TO DO
list, and we sure have a lot of work to do. Of course the president explicitly outlined
a generally liberal progressive political view—gee whiz, he got a mandate and
all last November, I expected him to do nothing less.
I'm puzzled by the breathlessly
critical political celebrities and the chattering personalities on cable news shows
and the carping folks in the blogosphere who are claiming that President Obama
didn't say anything memorable, no zinger of a one-liner, nothing on the order
of "Ask not what your country…"
I guess I'll just have to live
with my inability to crave a buzzword approach to political leadership.
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