“Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph....’I am large, I contain multitudes,’ Walt Whitman wrote, and Obama lives that lyrical prophecy....Barack Obama is developing into what Hegel called a ‘world-historical soul,’ an embodiment of the spirit of the times. He is what we hope we can be.”
Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Year's Worst Liberal Reporting
The Media Research Center offers the Best Notable Quotables 2011, The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting . I have to quote the Obamagasm award winning quote in its entirety, because it's impossible to paraphrase this with a straight face:
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