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In Obama’s speech, echoes of JFK (No, he's serious!)
The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | March 28, 2011 | Robert Kagan

Posted on 03/28/2011 6:47:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

With his speech tonight, President Obama placed himself in a great tradition of American presidents who have understood America’s special role in the world. He thoroughly rejected the so-called realist approach, extolled American exceptionalism, spoke of universal values and insisted that American power should be used, when appropriate, on behalf of those values. I was particularly pleased to see him place Libya in the context of the Arab Spring. This is the part of the equation that the self-described realists have missed....

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: jfk; kennedy; libya; obama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

$3.50 gas, starting a whole new war on the basis of U.N. approval, chronic unemployment, Wall Street bailout, Obamacare, DADT repeal, DREAM Act, suing Arizona, Pigford reparations scam, coddling the New Black Panthers, Supreme Court picks on the basis of “diversity” ...

I don’t listen to anything this man says anymore. He is not my president.


21 posted on 03/28/2011 8:56:10 PM PDT by WilliamHouston
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