George Will says, “The news about his speech is that it is no longer news that he often gives bad speeches. This one, however, was almost magnificently awful.” And the string of martial metaphors on the oil spill prompts this: “Our government declares war promiscuously—on drugs, poverty, cancer, environmental problems, etc.—but never when actually going to war.”
And from Mark Steyn:
My colleague Rich Lowry suggested the other day that most people not on the Gulf coast aren’t really that bothered about the spill, and that Obama has allowed himself to be blown off course entirely unnecessarily.
There may be some truth to this: For most of America, this is a Potemkin crisis.
But what better kind to trip up a Potemkin leader?
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