So which is the real Barack Obama: West Point or Oslo? Dud or dude? After the excruciatingly awkward speech at the military academy this month justifying his Afghanistan policy – a performance that seemed to torture both logic and, from the look of his body language, himself – the hacks were reaching for dimissives to write off the 44th president. Supreme orator of our time? Not that contortionist, simultaneously going gung-ho and heading for the exit.
哪一個纔是真正的巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)?是在西點軍校(West Point)演講的那個還是在奧斯陸演講的那個?歐巴馬本月在西點發表了爲其阿富汗政策辯護的極其勉強的演講,其表現似乎既拷問了邏輯,(從他的肢體語言看)也折磨了他自己。在這之後,寫手們搬出了各種難聽話,要把第44任美國總統說得一無是處。我們這個時代最優秀的雄辯家?肯定不是那個雜技演員:在大舉增兵的同時準備撤出。