Friday, December 11, 2009

The Daily Dish on Obama's Peace Prize speech

Andrew Sullivan has a great post on Obama's speech which includes these quotes from Obama:
I think God put us here with the intention that we break a sweat trying to be a little better than we were yesterday.
and Reinhold Niebuhr:

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; there we must be saved by hope.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; there we must be saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint.

Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

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Blogger TomS said...

As a liberal and Obama supporter, I had a more troubling take on the speech after reading the published text:
Here's the link from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/world/europe/11prexy.text.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

While I appreciated the quotes you offered here, they weren't in the spirit of what I understood the message his speech to be...there were a lot of ideas under the surface of the speech which I found troubling....drop on by and check out my thoughts.

Thanks Michael!

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