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 cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
Infrastructure week. at last.
We still have time to mess this up!
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
This blog will pay for itself.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
You can’t love your country only when you win.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Good lord, these people are nuts.
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
I really should read my own blog.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Consistently wrong since 2002
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.