In his speech at Boston Cathedral last week, Barack Obama did what a responsible president should do following a terrorist attack: he channelled the public’s reaction. “We do not hunker down,” he said. “We carry on.” It was a carefully judged oration. My colleague Christopher Caldwell even described it as possibly Mr Obama’s “finest hour”. Posterity will be the judge of that. We are still in the early days of the aftermath of Boston.
巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)在波士頓聖十字教堂的講話中盡了一名負責任的總統在恐怖襲擊之後應盡之事：他疏導了公衆的反應。他說道：「我們不會趴下。我們將繼續前行。」這是一篇經過慎密拿捏的演說。我的同事克里斯托弗•考德威爾(Christopher Caldwell)甚至稱，這可能是歐巴馬「最輝煌的時刻」。對此後人自有公論。我們仍處於波士頓爆炸案餘波的早期。
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