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#Twr the missing link free

They do not make us a nation of takers they free us to take the risks that make this country great.” But the crisis of inequality that threatens not only our economic recovery but also our democracy went almost entirely unmentioned. Obama cannot be said to have ignored the plight of the poor and the middle class indeed, some of the poetry of the address came on exactly this topic, as when he asserted that “the commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative they strengthen us. And I loved the way he stuck it to conservatives not only politically, but philosophically-like Ronald Reagan, but in reverse. I was especially pleased by the marker he laid down on climate change. Like most liberals, I was moved by the poetry of inclusion. I’m happy to admit that the delusional “Can’t we all just get along?” spirit of Obama’s first term didn’t prepare me for the strong speech he gave starting his second. Something I said must have inspired that gentleman to embark on a rampage of rape and murder.”)

#Twr the missing link series

It is as if Obama threw up his hands in (understandable) disgust with his polarizing rivals and declared, ‘If I can’t beat ’em, I’ll join ’em.’” He blamed the president for “raising expectations-this time for combat over a liberal agenda that will save the planet, fortify the middle class, protect entitlements, regulate guns and extend gay rights.” (Actually, Obama didn’t mention gun control, but never mind…) Looking for a wing-man, Fournier cited his fellow punditocracy pooh-bah, The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who insisted “the country needs a president who can do more than advance, incrementally, a partisan agenda” instead, he should “somehow rally the country to restructure Medicare and Social Security.” (Emphasis, one assumes, on the word “somehow.”) David Brooks, meanwhile, rather bizarrely imagined Obama and congressional Democrats working to kill the GOP by “invit a series of confrontations with Republicans over things like the debt ceiling-make them look like wackos willing to endanger the entire global economy.” (“I’m sorry, officer. National Journal pundit (and Karl Rove e-mail buddy) Ron Fournier bemoaned what he termed Obama’s “sad capitulation to the times. While the latter at least grasped the concept of having been defeated in an election, the punditocracy’s wise men wanted to pretend it never happened. Curiously, the so-called “center” appeared to be more upset about this than conservatives.