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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
We will do it right this time, really
Obama's speech last night, thanks for getting back to us, was depressing. The "American exceptionalism" mixed in with unilateral executive action (U.N. involvement ideal, but probably not required) with hazy details mixed with pragmatism masked by idealism. Is the best we can hope for is better applications of iffy policy approaches?