Murph as a fascinating, if rather grim deconstruction of Obama’s speech over his blog, which is worth reading as a corrective to all of the happy, happy joy time coverage. Who knows, eight years might even prove him right. Although as someone who makes a fair chunk of his income from the US I fervently hope he’s wrong.
For me the interesting thing about Obama’s address wasn’t the minimal allusion to his race (everyone else, including rick Warren, was always gonna bang on that drum), it was the tone of hard expectation which underlay the rhetoric. Not America’s expectations of him. But his expectations of America.
So, off to another thinky Instrument.