re: #59 Charles

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t think this was a terrific speech or anything. But I do think that some bloggers and commentators are way off base with their vehement criticisms of it. It wasn’t bad. It was pretty reasonable, overall, and had some sections that I thought were actually very good.

I agree. It’s only in a line by line examination, in context with history, that parts of the speech fall apart.
But, he said more about a few things…like holocaust denial than I had ever heard a president say before to the muslim world.