Obama and Commentators Speak. Please, Make It Stop

Nothing but Nonsense and Headaches, Contentions, May 26, 2011. "President Obama’s address to Parliament in Westminster Hall yesterday was of a piece with all his other major public statements. In fact, it was all of his other major public statements. Except for the boilerplate on Britain, it was the same speech he has been giving since his inauguration: unobjectionable generalities coupled with sketchy history, a rejection of false choices, and an assertion that everything he wants to achieve is modest, reasonable, and entirely in tune with the generalities, and thus barely counts as a choice at all. Will he ever get bored with false reasonableness?"