I almost drove off the road laughing when I heard that last paragraph of Obama’s speech.
…this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
So before last night the sick have just died and nobody ever found work. Barack Obama accomplished with that one speech what King Canute could not, and can reify John Lennon lyrics – Happy Xmas in June. Think of what he’ll be able to do if he actually becomes president.
