Robert Scheer: Getting Warmer: "We are lucky to have Barack Obama as president. I write that even though I believe the content of his Tuesday evening speech deserved no more than a B+/A-, for its failure to seriously address the origins of the banking crisis and for only hinting at the severe military budget cuts required to get close to his goal of reducing the federal deficit by the end of his first term.
But first the positives, which were stunning, and I am not referring only to his superb delivery, which thankfully is logical and informed and inspires without pandering. The one truly memorable, historically significant line -- unfortunately desperately needed because of the shameful actions of his predecessor -- was: '... I can stand here tonight and say without exception or equivocation that the United States does not torture.'"
(Via Huffington Blog.)
