I know you didn't do this just to win an election, and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you: We as a people will get there.
Exactly where is there? Is it somewhere between New Utopia and East Shangri La. Maybe it's a suburb of Nirvana? Could it be the south side of Chicago that he's improved so much already?
Just wondering.
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Xanadu.
-Geddy Lee
Brilliant observation!!! That's the big question isn't it? Going forward we need to keep asking the question, "Where is There?".
I've always observed that liberals have gotten away with non-specifics for far too long. Race relations are a good example. It's not that Americans don't want to resolve race relations, it's that we have no idea what it would take to resolve them.
If someone went to Jessie Jackon and said, "Can you define for me what it would take for you to claim, 'Race issues have been adequatly addessed.'?", I guarantee you he would have no answer.
Ask any liberal the same question on the War on Poverty. The best you will get from them is some reduiculously unattainable goal like, "As long as there is one American family in poverty we have not done enough."
Global Warming. Same.
If the libs would set a realistic goal and stand by it, I bet this country could solve any problem. They don't want to do that because they never want to reach any goal that would essentially mean their job is done. Their real goal is perpetual unrest, and never setting any yardstick that they can be measured by.
Anon # 2
You obviously just don't get it. All these problems will be solved when we get to There.
But rest assured, the road to There is long and hard. The Messiah may not be able to lead us to There in one term, it may take multiple terms. But when we do get to There guys like us won't be there.
anywhere but here!
Eric
I know what you mean.
A democratic president, congress, governor.
We're looking at hard times.
Out of curiosity, I know you are a liberal. When are you going to explain to me how democrats govern so well when I look at Detroit, Cleveland, Youngstown, Chicago?
Explain how democrats have done such a great job there.
After all, I live out in Redville and we don't have murders, homeless and shitty schools.
Enlighten me some time.
You are like me Gordon. I'm disappointed about the lurch forward of liberalism mainly because what it will do to others, not what it will do to me. You see I've always been fairly resourceful and self-reliant. I've done well under all forms of politics over the years and I will do OK under Barack. Most socialists completly misinterpret guys like me. They assume that I'm worried that government is going to take my piece of the pie. That's because that's how THEY they see the world: a material pie to be arbitrarly partitioned out. But since guys like us actually create the pie we will be just fine.
But I look at the "he will pay my mortgage" gal and get depressed. When I see people who think their lives are worth living again only because finally the right guy is in the Oval Office, I think to myself how sad. Barack mocked people who cling to religion and guns, but you have so many people who cling to the government in that same way.
In four years I see the government being a bigger part of all of our lives. But the people that are doing well now will still be doing well; mainly because our expectations of government are low and we will not be holding our breath for problems to be solved by others. But the people who are expecting the mortgage to be paid by someone else will be that much further behind; fiancially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
I feel bad for them and that's what's depressing.
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