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Monday, April 06, 2009

Obama Addresses the Turkish Parliament - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

"Obama Addresses the Turkish Parliament

This morning, President Obama addressed the Turkish Parliament.

It was somewhat refreshing to see an Obama speech not punctuated with applause every two sentences and getting a relatively stone-faced reception. (Most of the parliament was listening through translation, obviously.) The Turks, I suspect, are a little less wowed by rhetorical flourishes about hopes for tomorrow, and reaching together for the joined future, while the speaker remembers to note that his clean energy plans won’t make the various Turkish oil and natural gas pipeline projects obsolete."

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