Comments on Obama Excerpts

I'm sure it is really tempting to post this kind of thing when you get an advance copy like this. It's sort of a scoop (albeit a scoop everyone in the press has).

But please resist the urge to post part of their speech before they even give it. It is one of my pet peeves. I really hate it.

I want to see/hear the speech first, then refer later to the text if I want to re-examine part of it, or think I missed something.

I don't want to read the speech before it is even delivered. It's like a spoiler for a movie. Kind of ruins the suspense. And especially when only posting a small excerpt, it lacks any context.