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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Obama and what's his name ...


You'd think the best and the brightest would be beyond Mr. Obama's crude populist pitch. You of course would be wrong.

 
“ In the days after his Washington lecture, Mr. Obama took a shorter version of his SOTU speech on the road—to Colorado, Michigan, Iowa, Nevada and Arizona, states he needs in November. On the White House website, you can see him give this campaign tuneup speech at the new, $5 billion Intel chip-fabrication plant in Chandler, Ariz. It's worth watching and pondering. You'd think the best and the brightest would be beyond Mr. Obama's crude populist pitch. You of course would be wrong. [Obama's Maddening, Winning Speech]

A 4 minute audio  clip from the documentary "The Russian Revolution in Color" - FWIW, iot appears Lenin needed a "teleprompter" too.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/2/12, 11:34 AM

    It has been at least twenty-five years since I read Halberstam's classic, and one of the seminal works on our Vietnam experience, but I'm sure that the title was entirely tongue-in-cheek.

    Casca

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  2. Cheesy2/2/12, 4:01 PM

    That whole "Best and Brightest" thing doesn't take idiot savants into account, either.

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  3. Alear2/2/12, 11:59 PM

    Anecdotally: When I was leaving Swaziland, I traded a Penthouse I'd picked up in Berlin for "Best and the Brightest". Read it during the hell that was my week in Zambia. Halberstam knew his beans, and that's for sure. Recommended.

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  4. DougM2/3/12, 11:44 AM

    You seem to have some silly notion that a Prog's words actually mean something ... to them.

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