You don't have to be...
"I think we are near a point at which America joins the rest of the west as a center-left society - that's to say, a society whose assumptions about the role of government and the size of the state are far closer to Continental social democracies than to the Founding Fathers."**********
"In a grim media-cultural environment, the temptation for American conservatism is to be seduced into becoming one of those ever so mildly right-of-left-of-right-of-left-of-center parties they have in Europe."
RELATED: First words from the president elect
"Americans ... sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states - we are and always will be the United States of America," Mr. Obama said, thanking his supporters and the huge, jubilant crowd gathered in Chicago's Grant Park.Of course... job number one... is to dial down the huge expectations of that campaign of "audacity & hope."
"The road ahead will be long, the climb will be steep, we may not get there in one year, or even in one term, but America I have never been more hopeful that we will get there."Well, I guess it's a good thing hope is cheap.
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4 comments:
Gotta feel for the soldiers who will be suiting up today in the dessert, knowing that the guy heading to be Commander in Cheif wants to 'talk' to the terrorists...
At about the three year mark he might be looking up Jimmy Carter's old 'malaise' speech, unless all his big tax increases somehow defy logic and history and make the economy take off.
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let's revisit the situation a year or two into full-blown recession.
we'll see how the sheeple feel about "hope & change" versus food on the table.
it's not what you say... it's what you do.
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"Well, I guess it's a good thing hope is cheap."
Somewhere in the same price range as talk.
On the bright side we won't have to put up with an influx of northward moving disgruntled liberals.
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