Originally Posted by roachboy

i dont think the problem is his religion or that his speechwriters use that discourse (for reasons of at best questionable taste for some of us)--it is one the one hand that the vision of history and america's role in it is put in a way that gives it some kind of messianic mission in the world, and on the other comes framed by a speech that addresses nothing whatsoever in detail at all--which from another administration you might figure was part of the game of doing an inaguration speech--who wants to talk about bummers when your speech separates all these people from standing outside parties they cannot afford to enter?--but from this one, whose every move for 3 years (at least) has been predicated and continued on the basis of exactly that kind of refusal to deal with "details" like the empirical world--the "big picture" in this case is linked not to the world or even a fucked up image of the world, but on a notion of this mission to "spread liberty throughout the world"....

there is nothing so terrifying as a bad hegelian making speeches like this.