Just in case you missed it.<\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nLike most bloggers, I’m a surly curmudgeon who tends to view politics with a jaundiced eye. But I have to say, I found this to be not just well-done, not just effective from a political standpoint, but genuinely moving. Yes, the people who put this together used all the standard tricks of the trade. But they used them in service of a powerful and clear message: you’re not alone, America. Things are tough, but we’re going to get through this together. That isn’t socialism, that’s the basic American ethos that we help our neighbors out when they need it, that when we work together, we can accomplish anything, whether it’s whipping Hitler or sending a man to the Moon or building the internet.<\/p>\nThe message from the GOP has too often been the opposite — I’ve got mine, you get yours. It’s a simple message, and completely wrongheaded. Because every time we’ve abandoned the idea of giving those below us a hand up — whether in the gilded age, the roaring twenties, or now — we’ve ended up seeing the wheels fall off the wagon. Our nation’s most prosperous age came after World War II, when we decided that we’d send our soldiers to college, that we’d invest in infrastructure, from NASA to the interstates, that we’d build a better future for the children of tomorrow. And like too many unappreciative kids, the children and grandchildren of the Greatest Generation were born on third base and thought we’d hit a triple.<\/p>\nWe are, I think, finally shaking off the selfishness that has defined our nation in the past quarter-century, finally starting to realize that we can’t have a stable nation if we don’t invest in the future. I don’t expect Obama will be a perfect president, and I’m sure I’ll find plenty of reason to criticize him, but I think he understands that basic fact: we are all in this together, and as Franklin said, we must all hang together, or we shall all hang seperately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in case you missed it. Like most bloggers, I’m a surly curmudgeon who tends to view politics with a jaundiced eye. But I have to say, I found this to be not just well-done, not just effective from a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Like most bloggers, I’m a surly curmudgeon who tends to view politics with a jaundiced eye. But I have to say, I found this to be not just well-done, not just effective from a political standpoint, but genuinely moving. Yes, the people who put this together used all the standard tricks of the trade. But they used them in service of a powerful and clear message: you’re not alone, America. Things are tough, but we’re going to get through this together. That isn’t socialism, that’s the basic American ethos that we help our neighbors out when they need it, that when we work together, we can accomplish anything, whether it’s whipping Hitler or sending a man to the Moon or building the internet.<\/p>\n
The message from the GOP has too often been the opposite — I’ve got mine, you get yours. It’s a simple message, and completely wrongheaded. Because every time we’ve abandoned the idea of giving those below us a hand up — whether in the gilded age, the roaring twenties, or now — we’ve ended up seeing the wheels fall off the wagon. Our nation’s most prosperous age came after World War II, when we decided that we’d send our soldiers to college, that we’d invest in infrastructure, from NASA to the interstates, that we’d build a better future for the children of tomorrow. And like too many unappreciative kids, the children and grandchildren of the Greatest Generation were born on third base and thought we’d hit a triple.<\/p>\n
We are, I think, finally shaking off the selfishness that has defined our nation in the past quarter-century, finally starting to realize that we can’t have a stable nation if we don’t invest in the future. I don’t expect Obama will be a perfect president, and I’m sure I’ll find plenty of reason to criticize him, but I think he understands that basic fact: we are all in this together, and as Franklin said, we must all hang together, or we shall all hang seperately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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