rssConservatives on Obama’s Nobel Speech: Keep It Up
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:37 am
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The conservative reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address is not universally positive, but it’s close. Kathleen Parker, whose conservative but surprising nature is captured very well in this profile, writes that the speech closed the book on a tentative period of Obama’s leadership.
Though the Oslo speech follows others that have inspired even his critics, this was Obama’s most presidential. It marked the moment when Obama became a leader, defined as an individual who chooses the hard road because he believes it is the right one.
Bill Kristol, paying a high compliment, compares the speech to President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address — the post-9/11, post-invasion of Afghanistan apogee of his power and philosophy. Sarah Palin endorsed the speech in an amusingly self-serving way that Ben Smith noticed – amusing because a constant critique of Obama on the right is that he personalizes issues too much.
As a point of comparison, it’s not unusual for conservative radio show host Laura Ingraham to interrupt Obama clips on her radio show and sneer “me, me, me, me!”
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Comment posted December 11, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
As Ken Silverstein at Harpers said:
This Can’t Be Good: Robert Kagan loved the Nobel speech
And then quoted this wretched dreck from the Politico:
I don’t know what to say about an “Obama doctrine,” because based on this speech, I think we are witnessing a substantial shift, back in the direction of a more muscular moralism[WTF?], a la, Truman, Reagan. the emphasis on military power, war for just causes, and moral principles recalls Theoedore Roosevelt’s phrase, “the just man armed.” There is something much more quintessentially American and traditional about this speech, compared to most of his rhetorical approach throughout the year.
Now if he could just elaborate on what exactly the “just causes” might be…
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Comment posted December 11, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
As Ken Silverstein at Harpers said:
This Can’t Be Good: Robert Kagan loved the Nobel speech
And then quoted this wretched dreck from the Politico:
I don’t know what to say about an “Obama doctrine,” because based on this speech, I think we are witnessing a substantial shift, back in the direction of a more muscular moralism [WTF?], a la, Truman, Reagan. the emphasis on military power, war for just causes, and moral principles recalls Theoedore Roosevelt’s phrase, “the just man armed.” There is something much more quintessentially American and traditional about this speech, compared to most of his rhetorical approach throughout the year.
Now if he could just elaborate on what exactly the “just causes” might be…
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