Okay, so everyone loves him when he’s being funny. But sometimes I love him better when he’s being serious.
The fact is, when people talk about “the great inaugural addresses” they’re really talking about three at most, and from those three, three phrases:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
So basically, people are scanning Obama’s speech to see if there are any Immortal Phrases, which here means simplistic notions expressed in a rhetorical antithesis. Big whup.
Seriously people, if you can’t handle a speech made of more than soundbites, you’re part of the problem.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.