Obama Speech

One thing that worked in the Obama speech was President Barack Obama's drawing a straight line between the vast monetary cost of the war and the economic slough of despond in which we're mired. One thing that didn't work was his assertion that with the end of combat in Iraq, we were turning a page. We're still at war, and Obama said that now more resources are available for Afghanistan.

President Obama’s Oval Office speech was good, but the iconography was great.

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