[lbo-talk] Obama's victory speech

[shag]

At 12:33 AM 6/4/2008, B. wrote:
>June 3, 2008
>
>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").
>
>[...]
>
>http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/06/reviewing_the_speeches.html

seriously? wow. my hair didn't stand on end, but i did choke on my coffee.

shag