NOW YOU'RE JUST BEING SILLY:

Obama's address: grand setting, weak policies (Michael Gerson, 6/16/10, Washington Post)

The setting of the Oval Office creates an expectation of decisive executive action. It recalls memories of President Dwight Eisenhower dispatching federal troops to Little Rock or President John F. Kennedy announcing the naval "quarantine" of Cuba. This speech will not be confused with those precedents. Obama urges others to take action, kibitzes with corporate executives, shifts some government personnel and signals the start of a review process. A crisis is met with a study. The action verbs in this speech have somehow gone missing. It is all rather limp and weak.

Doesn't Mr. Gerson get that for the UR the act of speaking to us was his decisive action?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 16, 2010 1:52 PM