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Friday, July 25, 2008
Achtung! Obamadammerung!
TALKING HISTORY WITH THE GERMANS. I plan to leave all the highbrow analysis of Obama's latest "Speech of the Century" to those who have more patience for parsing and pedagogy than I do. All I can really say is that it reminded me of the young lady who saw a stage performance of Hamlet for the first time and said, "I don't see what all the fuss is about. All he did was string together a bunch of famous quotations."
The Germans in attendance seemed to like it, though, and everyone knows they have an infallible knack for distinguishing beween soaring rhetoric and authentic wisdom. I guess we should defer to their judgment. I mean, isn't deferring to European judgment the single eternal plank in the Democratic Party platform?
Jawohl, mein Obama.
