In the Sunday Dallas Morning News, not known as a bastion of liberal thinking, there is a full page devoted to the commencement address Barack Obama gave at Knox College.
Accompanying it is an article by David Kusnet which was also published in The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com.
Basically, he says that Obama has the right stuff. He writes about the way to speak so that people can hear what is being said.
“And then America happened.
A place where destiny was not a destination, but a journey to be shared and shaped and remade by people who had the gall, the temerity to believe that, against all odds, they could form “a more perfect union” on this new frontier.”
This is the kind of rhetoric that is needed to send the selfish and greedy to their spider holes. The full text is available at http://www.knox.edu/x9803.xml. Sorry, I don’t know how to embed the link on this site.