THE FULL SECESSION


from a less perfect union.

Because several emailers have asked me to do this, because the original pieces were posted in four installments across seven days, and because it seems especially fitting on a morning when a Michelle Obama love-fest is masquerading as front-page news in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I'm going to provide, here in one convenient place, the links to all four parts of my response to, secession from, and deconstruction of Barack Obama's much-ballyhooed A More Perfect Union speech:

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four.

One emailer claimed I was bitter, demented, and delusional for daring to suggest that Senator Obama's speech was anything less than brave and brilliant. Another suggested my analysis of the speech should be required reading in every high school in America, and that it was a brilliant primer on how to cut through a purposefully created fog. Wherever you stand, and however you fall, you can here have ready access to every word of the original (in case like this, there's no such thing as being taken out of context at TWM), and to every word of the analysis.

Enjoy. (Or not.)

Posted: Thu - April 3, 2008 at 09:11 AM          

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