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Obama's speech: some uncanny echoes
The young neocon journalist James Kirchik and the middle-aged anti-neocon humorist John Stewart agree on one thing: The parts of President Obama's inaugural address in which he discussed terrorism and Muslim extremists had a familiar ring to them. They were -- how to put this? -- rather Bush-like. (Both clips are quite short.)
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
