I don't have transcripts or videos, so certainly I could be wrong. But I did listen to most of the speech of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, who then introduced a taped message from President Obama, which I heard in it's entirety while driving back to my office this afternoon. I found it strange, eerie almost, as if everyone knew there was something missing. Did neither of them mention former President Ronald Reagan at all? I heard Mr. Obama mention President Kennedy. But no "shout outs" to Reagan?
CNN this afternoon? Nope.
The more extensive collection of stories in CNN's Autumn of Change? Not that I can tell, based on the links listed.
The NY Times does, though it does so more in the context of discussing the disagreement over who should get the lion's share of the credit.
While think it would have been a harmless and yet appropriate way for the current President to credit one of his predecessors from the other side of the aisle, and for once to set aside his hyper-partisan instincts, it is necessary really only to recognize that millions of Eastern Europeans freed from the oppression of communist governance was and is a good thing. Still, it should have happened.
