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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-10 08:49 AM
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Frank RIch: Freedom's Just Another Word...
What was so grievously missing from Obama’s address was any feeling for what has happened to our country during the seven-and-a-half-year war whose “end” he was marking. That legacy of anger and grief is what “Freedom” mainlines to its readers.

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This mood has not lifted and may be thickening as we trudge toward Year 10 in Afghanistan. But Obama only paid it lip service. It’s a mystery why a candidate so attuned to the nation’s pulse, most especially on the matter of war, has grown tone deaf in office. On Tuesday, Obama asked the country to turn the page on Iraq as if that were as easy as, say, voting for him in 2008. His brief rhetorical pivot from the war to the economy only raised the question of why the crisis of joblessness has not merited a prime-time Oval Office speech of its own.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/opinion/05rich.html?_r=1&ref=frankrich
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-10 08:55 AM
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1. Frank Rich is a national treasure. He gets it right again.
Whoever unrecommended this is - well, never mind.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-10 09:08 AM
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2. Turn the page, my ass...
Herr Decider was as committed to the troops as Newt Gingrich was committed to his ex-wives. Obama's speech did sound rather tone-deaf.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-10 09:10 AM
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3. I'm attuned to Obama on this.
I just want it over with.
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