I referred to this speech last month, and Yglesias is right– it is a must read (.pdf).
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T R E 4 5 O N
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
White supremacy is terrorism.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
It’s a doggy dog world.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
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.