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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Is it just rhetoric or not? More on conservative hypocricy
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" These words tend to either make conservatives cry or piss their pants. For more than 20 years, conservatives have cited this statement (by Ronald Reagan) as playing a key role (I have heard it claimed as THE key role) in the downfall of the Soviet Union. Of course many of Reagan's other words (e.g. morning in America) are also used to describe what a great President Reagan was. But now conservatives have been on the attack for months saying that Obama is just out there giving good speeches, but that words aren't actions. You can't claim that Reagan's speeches rallied a nation and caused the USSR to disband, and then turn around and dismiss Obama's speeches as contributing to nothing.
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Another example of speaches celebrated by those on the right (and middle) was W's speach at Ground Zero after 9-11. It was widely argued that those actions were heroic and established him as providing a strong response to 9-11. If it had been Obama, they'd be saying that it was just another speach.
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