OTOH, Noonan and WFB are accomplished wordsmiths and may actually simply be talking about the lack of logic, coherence and clarity that manifests itself throughout the speech. It’s a kludge – it could have been written by a development team at Microsoft.

For those who don’t see it that way – copy the speech into a word processing program and move paragraphs around or delete them – randomly select sentences (or paragraphs) and try to determine whether they express a complete thought or a portion thereof. As far as I am concerned Noonan and WFB are being kind. It has nothing whatsoever to do with their vision of hierarchy and everything to do with the muddiness found throughout the speech.

The inclusion of the Koran as a font for the ideal of human freedom is particularly ridiculous. I understand the PC vision that demanded its “inclusion” but the Koran has nothing whatsoever to say about human freedom and liberty.

The underlying concept of universal freedom is a marvelous ideal but this speech does very little to advance it.