I referred to this speech last month, and Yglesias is right– it is a must read (.pdf).
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
Good lord, these people are nuts.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
White supremacy is terrorism.
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.
“Alexa, change the president.”
I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
Fight them, without becoming them!
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…
Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
The words do not have to be perfect.
The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.
… gradually, and then suddenly.
Trump should be leading, not lying.
Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?
Matthew Stinson
Clinton gives a damn good speech — and I’d have no problem if his sketch of the situation became a bipartisan conensus about engaging Islam, even if I disagree with some of the ways he characterizes things. (For example, money that goes to finance our debt would not necessarily go to the poor in other countries.)
Nick
For all that I think Bill Clinton was at most an average president and has some significant personal failings, he’s one of the best in the world at giving a speech. I can’t think of one modern American politician today that can connect with an audience and deliver a powerful message like he can. There are things I would quibble with in this speech. As he has before, I think he spends too much on America’s past mistakes; sort of a moral equivalance with todays problems. He’s self-promoting to a fault. Even so, in this speech and other speeches he’s given in the Middle East, he doesn’t shy away from telling Islamic audiences that they have serious problems, and that Israel is not the problem. He praises the right, and condemns the wrong. For an ex-President, he’s doing a pretty good job for America.