We understand that we're not a nation of takers (as Paul Ryan once regrettably put it), but how entitlement programs that far exceed our ability to pay for them "free us to take the risks that make this country great" is gobbledygook of the first order. It reeks of caffeine and the smug satisfaction familiar to all writers, who, upon crafting a sentence that is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, ignore the editor's imperative: Delete, delete, delete. Or as I prefer to put it, kill your little darlings.
What it all really means, of course, is that Barack Obama has been liberated by a second term, free to take risks that he hopes will make his legacy great. This is his moment, his emancipation proclamation, his hinge point of history — and there's no looking back now.
Kathleen Parker's email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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I'm glad it wasn't much of a conciliatory speech. He couldn't have given up enough to please everyone anyway, so he might as well stick to his principles and move us forward.
Yes, we could have that other fellow as our President now.....
He and his fellow Republicans would be promoting and eagerly engaging in a new war in the MIddle East with Iran.
Outlawing women's reproductive rights.
Promoting the More..
Presidents have in the past were enemies only because of their differing opinions on the ownership of the Capitalist economy. In fact they were only arguing about how to squeeze the gold from the golden goose of America.
In many cases More..