The really impressive thing about Obama is his fearlessness about taking up multiple issues to put forward a broadly progressive viewpoint, one that is well ahead of the US public. Just in the past week, he covered new auto emissions standards, the need for empathy on the part of judges, the abortion issue at Notre Dame, Palestine with
Netanyahu, and Guantanamo today. For any other national leader, dealing with just one of these issues would be an achievement.
Sekhar Ramakrishnan
The Atlantic
both about Obama’s meeting with human rights groups yesterday,
New York Times about Obama’s speech today on Guantanamo,
Washington Post
all three about Obama applying pressure on Netanyahu and Israel,
Huffington Post
analyzing how the NY Times distorted the whole story to make it appear that the meeting with Netanyahu was about Iran, and
New York Times
with the text of Obama’s speech, contain all the material below.
The Atlantic
with the reaction of a conservative who opposes torture and Guantanamo,
C-SPAN
with the complete Obama speech, and
Washington Post
a short video with key points made by Obama.