I didn't see Obama's address last night, but I read the text.  I couldn't find anything really objectionable about it.  I do find Robert Gibbs objectionable, which is Obama's fault because he hired Gibbs.  On the Today show, Gibbs said:

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A couple of weeks back, the Bird Dog clan road-tripped from the Puget Sound area to Golden, CO.  Bird Dog Jr. is starting his college journey at the School of Mines.  It was 1,400 miles each way, but we saw some nice country en route.  The one below was snapped in Tremonton, Utah, and is a typical scene.

This one is near Echo, Utah, just west of the Wyoming border.

A Norwegian journalist was able to get himself embedded with a Taliban unit. Unfortunately, the 26-minute tape was removed from YouTube and this is the best I substitute I could find. The longer tape showed the foot soldiers as funny and likable. The one below is longer but tThere's no guarantee that the following excerpt will work.

There are really two questions involved here:  (1) did the counterinsurgency strategy--led by General Petraeus--succeed, and (2) has our venture in Iraq succeeded.  To the first question, my answer is "yes", but it took the help of Sunni tribes and the standing down of Shiite militias led by Muqtada al Sadr to make it happen.  A degree of battle fatigue contributed to the situation, and al Maliki made some strong moves to quell Shiite intransigence.  Although American forces tried to maintain continuity of its operations after the Strategic Framework Agreement was signed

It's pretty cloudy if you're a blogger in Philadelphia, thanks to its cash-grabbing, small-business-unfriendly city government.

I agree with Krauthammer and others.  Ground Zero is hallowed ground, and a mosque in such close proximity is bad form.  I don’t want it there.  Except there’s this one sticking point that I just can’t get around:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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The Economist is one of my favorite non-American magazines, so I'm going with that flow.  First, they weigh in on the enthusiasm gap:

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on a UN tribunal that was charged with investigating the assassination of prime minister al-Hariri back in 2005.  They will likely hand out indictments against members of Hezbollah, which will likely stoke internal strife and perhaps civil war. 

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Greg Gutfield sounds serious about this:

Last Friday and over the weekend, the uber-partisan Paul Krugman took several swipes at Paul Ryan and his Roadmap,

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