Readers are having a grand time with Sorenson’s “dream speech.” In my favorite email so far, a reader puts his finger on something that was bugging me about that excerpt too:

The best part of Sorensen’s excerpt is the first line- “I shall fly to New York City to pledge in person…” Harkens back to a time (that would be Sorensen’s time, if I’m not mistaken) when it was quite the statement for the president to board one of those flying machines…and “in person,” just like Wilson at Versailles! Truth be told, I didn’t read the rest of it…

Update: This reader thinks Sorenson should have asked Americans to vote their hopes not their fears even more:

I guess what surprises me most is that Ted “Keeper of the Camelotian Mysteries” Sorensen’s proposed speech didn’t include:
1. A firm guarantee of 300 sunshine days per year in all 50 states, with potentially more to follow after completion of appropriate EPA impact studies.
2. Direct piping of government-subsidized Evian water into every home by 2013 (aka “The Leave No Bubbles Behind Act”).
3. Mandating Starbucks to distribute complimentary CD’s of “Jalisco!: The Greatest Hits of Ted Kennedy and His Mexican Hayriders” in all of its outlets.
Ted Sorensen has spent the past 40 years projecting words and thoughts into dead men’s mouths and heads, so he might as well throw in the kitchen sink if he’s going to do the same thing for living presidential candidates.
Faithfully yours, &c.,