Claire Shipman on"This Week with George Stephanopoulos" reflects on the President's Second Inaugural Address, and its intrinsic appeal to current (Democratic) and former (neocon) leftists:

This has to be seen as an attempt to retrofit the war in Iraq with the Grand Foreign Policy Philosophy. ... People talk about this being the core of Bush; this was not his core four years ago when he chided the Clinton administration for"nation-building." ... The President's speech goes so far toward neoconservatism it bumps into Marx.