In his Sunday night speech, President Obama split the difference
President Obama's short Oval Office speech on Sunday night had many political purposes. But as the speech began, it seemed clear that the first goal was to strike a delicate balance: to say something acknowledging "radical Islam" while simultaneously challenging the politics of fear. I could be proven wrong, but as someone who's read many speechwriter memos, I could see something like this passing through the hands of communications staff: "The president has to respond to critiques who claim he... Читать дальше...