The President’s Words are Indeed Powerful—in Indonesia, too

Walter Lohman / November 10, 2010

The President’s national security team prepared a solid speech for him to deliver at the University of Indonesia yesterday. The speech, intended as a follow up to his 2009 Cairo speech to the “Muslim world,” was first posted on the State Department’s America.gov website in its “as prepared for delivery” form. It was well-tailored to an Indonesian audience and avoided all the ill-advised religious language of the Cairo speech.

Unfortunately, the President had some of ideas of his own.

Judging by the changes posted in the revised speech he ad-libbed. (more…)