This rather bizarre belief in the unlimited power of the speech arises from Obama’s biography. Isn’t that how he rose? Words? It’s not as if he built a company, an enterprise, an institution. He built one thing — his own persona. By persuasion. One great speech in 2004 propels him to the presidential level. More great speeches and he wins the White House, but then comes governance. A speech in Cairo, utterly crushed by the Arab Spring. Talk of a Russian reset, repeatedly thrown back at him by a contemptuous Russian dictator. Fifty-four speeches to get health care enacted — only to see it now imperiled by the reality of its ruinous rollout and broken promises. -- Krauthammer
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 03:33:38 +0000
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