The Occasional Observer

David Brooks - God bless him for continuing to fight the good fight at the NYT - offers another gem today, pointing out that the critical difference between Obama and the other great orators he is compared to (Reagan, JFK), is that those guys were actually willing to make hard decisions and put actions behind words. Obama is all rhetoric, and rhetoric alone never solves anything. For proof of that, look no further than Darfur, Rwanda, or countless other places where liberals too weak-kneed to propose actual action instead simply "hope" for "change", yet never achieve any.