Speaking Truth to Flattery! Read it! Love him! "Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo is one of the most bizarre orations ever made by a U.S. president, not a foreign policy statement but rather something invented by Obama, an international campaign speech, as if his main goal was to obtain votes in the next Egyptian primary." "That approach defined Obama’s basic themes: Islam’s great. America is good. We’re sorry. Be moderate (not that you haven’t always been that way). Let’s be friends.Here, Obama followed the idea that if you want someone to like you agree with almost everything he says. "Obama also gave, albeit with some minor variations, the speech that the leader of a Third World Muslim country might give, justifying it in advance by claiming America is a big Muslim country, after all." "Of course, the speech had tremendous—though temporary—appeal combined with its counterproductive strategic impact. It will make him more popular. It may well make America somewhat less unpopular. But its effect on Middle East issues and U.S. interests is another matter entirely."
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It was a classic Obama speech: full of historical errors, strawman arguments, pretty words that look just like lofty rhetoric, without all that heavy meaning. And let's not forget, those essential anecdotes about himself.
-Kenneth
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