Thursday 24 January 2013

Politics Aside, President Obama Just Beautifully Articulated What America Is

I’m not suggesting that I agree with all of Barack Obama’s policies. In fact, I think a good number of them are detestable, ineffective, and sometimes even frightening. I believe in being relentlessly critical of power, no matter who wields it. You might even say I’m something of a cynic.
That, however, is why even I couldn’t help but giggle with delight at most of the President’s second inaugural address. Really, he is an outstanding orator — one of our very finest. And he gets just about everything right in this speech. Sure, you might say, it’s just empty rhetoric, just some pretty but shallow words floating above the reality of broken government and a divided America. But hearing the President speak so confidently and righteously about this country… well, it gives me hope. I know, I know — that’s, like, his “thing.” But there’s so much more truth in this speech than vacuous slogans or shallow public image-crafting that even cynics like me are forced, begrudgingly, to remember that hope is real and reigns eternal. If you don't, you’re doing it wrong.
  
Mansur Gidfar 

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