Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama’s speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the “useful idiots” useful.
That is exactly what it did too. It put the sheep back in the fold.
14 posted on 03/18/2008 10:02:51 PM PDT by oldbrowser
(Ideologues are impractical.)