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Tag Archives: Ronald Reagan
“Playing Innocent Abroad”
Friday, July 25, 2008
David Brooks’s column “Playing Innocent Abroad” in today’s New York Times provides a thoughtful analysis of Sen. Obama’s speech yesterday in Berlin. It decomposes Sen. Obama’s lofty rhetoric, placing his remarks in the proper context: reality.
When John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan went to Berlin, their rhetoric soared, but their optimism was [...]
Krauthammer’s “The Audacity of Vanity”
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Charles Krauthammer has written another brilliant piece–this time on Sen. Obama’s pervasive elitist and narcissistic tendencies. Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by trade, paints in interesting portrait of the first-term senator. Sen. Obama’s desire to speak at the Brandenburg Gate is not entirely misguided. Speaking there will undoubtedly evoke images of great statesmen like Ronald Reagan, which could help [...]