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September 02, 2010 12:58 PM Mencken weighs in by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules There as been a lot of virtual ink deployed in commenting on President Obama’s Iraq-War-U.S.-Economy speech. My unofficial Tomatometer reports that viewers and pundits alike have judged about 43 percent fresh. Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post thought that the President “Brought Gravitas to Speech.” But most of the commentary I saw gave it a [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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