President Obama’s Nobel Speech

by Dec 22, 2009Uncategorized

I finally got around to reading President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, and I commend it to you.

David Brooks made the interesting point that Obama, though certainly a political liberal, did not speak like a secularist. He talks freely of higher-order purposes. He bases much of his argument on them.

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