[lbo-talk] Count Copula and the "yes we can" speech

John Gulick john_gulick at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 6 17:56:33 PST 2008


shag (golly, I can't believe I wrote that!) posted:

"It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land."

Gulick:

Contra John Thornton, I don't find this to be spellbinding, but rather, insipid. Especially with Obama's pseudo-MLK cadence added.

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