Tony Blair and CongressThe full text of Tony Blair's thrilling speech to the Congress can be found online here. I watched the whole event on CNN yesterday, and although i've found nothing but glowing praise for the speech on the internet (well, not from the Guardian, but what else is new?), some have struck me as an odd feint-praise. I believe Blair's speech may have been the single most important congregation of thought expressed about the issuse's that challenge the western world in this post 9-11 era. More on that later though, this post is merely to lament the fact that neither the democrats or republicans have anyone as talented a speaker as Tony Blair running for president in 2004. |