Point (via Hot Air Headlines)
In the 70 years since Robinson broke the color line in baseball, Obama said, the country has evolved into a more accepting place.
That, he suggested, is how change happens: slowly, over generations, and only after a sustained fight.
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” Obama said. “It doesn’t happen in one fell swoop. It doesn’t happen because a president gives a speech.”
…we will be able to look back and tell our children that 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.
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You’d think that that last bit would stop being funny. Not so much that Barack Obama’s ego wrote checks that night that his body still can’t cash, half a decade later; but that otherwise-sentient Democrats actually believed the guy, bless their hearts.
Moe Lane
Self-obsessed authoritarian poser with delusions of competency…