Something about the Gettysburg Address lends itself to illustrating modern follies. On the off chance that anyone hasn't seen it, check out the classic Gettsyburg Address Powerpoint Presentation at http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/. Slide 5 is brilliant.
In the same spirit, I realized that today or tomorrow there will be some polls determining the impact of Obama's speech and I started wondering how did the "I have a dream" speech polled? I'm guessing not that great.
Obama may well have delivered a great speech, but he was cynical as hell to drape his rostrum with more American flags than the whole damned Navy has. What a joke.
Mr. Obama, I knew Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine. You're no Abe Lincoln.
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The irony is that Lincoln's Gettysburg speech was received with about the same level of "so what" by Lincoln's political opponents.
Posted by: nolo | March 19, 2008 9:58 AM
Something about the Gettysburg Address lends itself to illustrating modern follies. On the off chance that anyone hasn't seen it, check out the classic Gettsyburg Address Powerpoint Presentation at http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/. Slide 5 is brilliant.
Posted by: Richard Hershberger | March 19, 2008 2:28 PM
In the same spirit, I realized that today or tomorrow there will be some polls determining the impact of Obama's speech and I started wondering how did the "I have a dream" speech polled? I'm guessing not that great.
Posted by: davidv | March 19, 2008 2:43 PM
Obama may well have delivered a great speech, but he was cynical as hell to drape his rostrum with more American flags than the whole damned Navy has. What a joke.
Mr. Obama, I knew Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine. You're no Abe Lincoln.
Posted by: Harlan | March 21, 2008 1:00 AM