re: #3 esch

What is a sotan? Looks like some sort of acronym, but I have no idea what it stands for.

As for the subject - ah, the whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. It’ll blow over. President Obama (or whatever department put out the idiotic ‘write a letter saying how you can support the President) has already backed off his dumb idea. There’s residual overreaction left. The speech’ll be typical blah, and it will all soon be forgotten. And thank goodness for that.