By: Obama’s National Security Speech: The Politics of a Big Thing « Jeffrey C. Goldfarb's Deliberately Considered

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:51:35 +0000

[…] In his address to the National Defense University on May 23, 2013, President Obama set out to transform the common sense about terrorism and the proper American response to it. He continued what I take to be his major goal: the reinvention of American political culture, pushing the center left on a broad range of problems and principles, often meeting great resistance. In this particular instance, the change he sought at NDU, was apparently quite simple, moving from a war on terror to a struggle against terrorists, ending the prospect of total and endless war against an enemy whose power has been greatly and routinely exaggerated. The suggestion of the simple change understandably elicited strong and conflicting reactions. I think these reactions, along with the speech itself, illuminate the significance of Obama’s latest performance as “storyteller-in-chief.” […]

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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:58:32 +0000

[…] “Storyteller-in-Chief” added another chapter to “The American Story,” this time as he accepted his […]

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By: Obama’s National Security Speech: The Politics of a Big Thing « Jeffrey C. Goldfarb's Deliberately Considered

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