[DrC]

Thanks! “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent,” said the president, “know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

If that doesn’t describe the first 16 months of the Obama administration, I don’t what does.

I would LOVE to know whether Kass has any retrospective regrets about his glowing commentary. I do believe that day he perhaps HAD eaten too much Hopium. I concur with Kass Obama had some very fine-sounding words that day, but the reason for his plummeting popularity is because his deeds never measured up to those many paragraphs of idealistic utterances.

[mlizzy]

You're welcome. Because I couldn't remember the exact title of this piece, I could not track it down online, but a helpful librarian who has all this stuff on record, was able to do so with just the date, paper, and author ...

Kass did apologize in a later article, but I'd have to really search on that one, because the apology was only one sentence, maybe two (and I can't remember to which article [subject] it was attached) ... but my husband and I thought it was interesting [in the original piece]; that in "his" presence, even Kass buckled ...