tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post2214786218235274750..comments2023-10-27T07:50:27.411+01:00Comments on Next Left: Bipartisan Obama's Nixon moment!Tom Hampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05917325958130851128noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-15971911467363822562008-11-06T01:07:00.000+00:002008-11-06T01:07:00.000+00:00i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - pa...i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out...<BR/><BR/>he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context. to me that is simultaneously both humble and magnificent.<BR/><BR/>and it is the power of his eloquence that will be his most powerful weapon on the global stage over the next four years. don't tell him words don't matter when he has to find a response to the first crisis to hit his term in office. i have faith that obama will find the words we need to respond not only to underhand or negative electoral campaign tactics, as he proved over the past months, but to terrorist atrocity, economic depression or natural disaster.<BR/><BR/>there'll be no more sloppy words in this white house. gone are the downright dangerous days of the 'war on terror', 'axis of evil' and 'old europe'.<BR/><BR/>a new linguistic age in world politics has dawned. welcome to the new presidential discourse.Tim Gorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996761924636152135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-5408646878483265752008-11-05T13:06:00.000+00:002008-11-05T13:06:00.000+00:00I wonder what the dog will be called?The naming of...I wonder what the dog will be called?<BR/><BR/>The naming of the dog could be one of the first symbolic acts before taking office.<BR/><BR/>The name could be full of American patriotism like Gerald Ford's unfortunate dog Liberty.<BR/><BR/>Or it could be simple in the extreme like Lyndon Johnson who called his two beagles Him and Her. At least that helps if the presidential memory starts to go.<BR/><BR/>The Obama dog might be the first of a wierd farm-yard of animals like that of Theodore Roosevelt who had a pig, a badger, rat and a one-legged rooster.<BR/><BR/>On a more serious note, Obama's victory is an extraordinary and great achievement in itself but more importantly could transform world politics. However, Obama has a tough ride ahead in fulfilling expectations.Calixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05754832236324324540noreply@blogger.com