Obama Revives Cold War Liberalism

In Nobel speech, a 'Christian realist' Obama Doctrine

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 15, 2009 5:33 AM CST

(Newser) – President Obama's Oslo speech showed a spirit of Christian realism that most liberals abandoned after Vietnam but that would have been very familiar to Harry Truman, writes David Brooks. Obama, by acknowledging that evil exists and stressing that power needs to be constrained within institutions... Read full story »

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