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Weekly Standard Blog — ... Passionate Obama supporter Meteor Blades titled his Daily Kos essay on today’s colossal failure of a speech, “By This Foreign Policy Speech Will Future Ones Be Measured.” Fair enough – that’s why they make paint in different colors. In spite of mine and Mr. Blades’s disagreement on the speech’s merits, I still found this passage noteworthy: ...

The Berlin Missionary
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — Democrats and star-struck adulators will remember Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin as something more than it actually was. “By this foreign policy speech will future ones be measured,” declared dKos editor Tim Lee Lange, and, well — not really. The truth is that the definitive statement on the speech is probably Jim Geraghty’s: he acknowledged that “[t]here was not a ton to object to, and indeed a lot to like,” and then challenged his readers to see whether they could distinguish its rhetoric from that of We Are the World. You can’t, and that’s the point. Barack Obama’s celebrity appeal is not (contrary to what he appears ...