Obama on Security Failure: 'The Buck Stops With Me'

1/7/2010
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^ You should read the full statement. This clip captures most of the money quotes, but they left out what I thought was the best part:

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. That is exactly what our adversaries want. And so long as I am president, we will never hand them that victory.

We will define the character of our country, not some band of small men intent on killing innocent men, women and children.

That's sounding a bit more like the guy I campaigned for. I understand why he's got the rhetoric dialed way back now that he's the President, but he needs to go back several more notches toward the idealism and passion that got him there.

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