January 21, 2009

I Love Peter Sagal

Okay, so everyone loves him when he's being funny. But sometimes I love him better when he's being serious.

The fact is, when people talk about “the great inaugural addresses” they’re really talking about three at most, and from those three, three phrases:

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

So basically, people are scanning Obama’s speech to see if there are any Immortal Phrases, which here means simplistic notions expressed in a rhetorical antithesis. Big whup.


Seriously people, if you can't handle a speech made of more than soundbites, you're part of the problem.

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