Orange_Juice
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- Jul 24, 2008
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.We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.
The anarchists must be on suicide watch now!
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched...
Oh, but I thought he was a communist?
And the best line of all:
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers.
Non-believers??? Oh, to hear an American President say that warmed my heart! We belong, too!!!