Fortune Favors the Blunt -

Fortune Favors the Blunt - When Ronald Reagan gave his definitive speech at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, his advisors were shaking in their shoes. Yet he pressed ahead - and the message got across, and history changed sooner than any of us had any right to expect.

Well, like clockwork, Tom Daschle is criticizing the President for the turn of phrase "axis of evil". Yet, in a BBC piece I heard today, it seems the Iranian moderates are taking their cue, and have been at least somewhat emboldened by the President's bluntness.

Has there ever been a less inspiring leader than Tom Daschle?