A Speech As History: Obama’s—and Our—Date with Destiny
President Obama briefs congressional leaders today on his plans for military action against the Islamic State—a leadup to his much-anticipated speech to the nation (and to the world) tomorrow on the same subject.
Numbed as we’ve been by Obama’s political speeches, we’re inclined to think this will be yet another of his droll addresses, heavy on cadence and light on content. But we’d be wrong. For, whatever the content of Obama’s speech, its historicity and the gravity of its impact will be most important. The nation and the world dramatically will be changed by it.
Leid Stories focuses our attention on the context of Obama’s speech, with listeners providing a broad understanding of the moment we’re in and how, in a visceral way, his address brings us all to a definitive, intertwined, unavoidable point of reckoning.
Sounds esoteric, but it’s good old-fashioned political theory and analysis.
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