In an earlier post and long roundup HERE, I argued that President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech was good but not what you’d call great. But is it too early to even judge? Talk Left’s Big Tent Democrat, one of the most perceptive writers on a weblog of any political persuasion, offers this word of caution.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.