Reviewing the Speeches Posted by TOM BEVAN
The climax at the end [f Obama;s speech] also struck me as a bit over the top veering dangerously close to the kind of messianic rhetoric that might make people's hair stand on end ("Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment... when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal").
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