At Commentary?s blog, Contentions, Ted Bromund cuts up Obama's ?Sputnik moment? talk:
Rhetoric that's shaped by this kind of desperation comes across as insincere. It might be more effective for the president to simply state his belief that we need to spend more money on education. He'd be wrong on the merits, but at least he wouldn't be compounding the error with dubious grab-bag analogies.
As I mentioned yesterday, we've had a lot of Sputnik moments. The Atlantic has some more information on that. And the Christian Science Monitor doesn't much like the analogy. Its editors write, ?Mr. President, this is not exactly a ?Sputnik moment.'?
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow