Required Reading, Part III (Updated)

From BarackObama.com, “New Energy for America” by Barack Obama Linked is the text to a “major address” that Obama gave today on energy policy. Just once, I would like a presidential candidate to give a minor address. The context of the major address in question is full of big errors. First, note the characteristic Obama hyperbole that is becoming the annoying background noise to this campaign cycle: We meet at a moment when this country is facing a set of challenges greater than any we've seen in generations…That is why this election could be the most important of our lifetime. Here’s news for Obama - they say those things about every election. Even Bill Clinton spoke that way in 1996 when the biggest issue was how we were going get Midnight Basketball programs to sprout across the land. On substantive matters, Obama spoke... [read full story]