Who reads yesterday’s speech-for-the-ages? Who needs yesterday’s god?
In his column at the Orange County Register, Mark Steyn writes:
Four score and seven years ago … No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDR’s First Inaugural, or JFK’s religion speech, or (if, like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you find those comparisons drearily obvious) Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech of 1860. Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 03, 2008 04:55 PM | Send Email entry |