Well said, Fred. Even from this distance, the hope spread. Andrew
2008/11/5 Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
> Forty years - ten elections - since Nixon. During that time, two Democrats
> (three terms). Deregulation began under Carter. Clinton's most consistent
> effort was not to protect the environment or furrther social justice but to
> extend the market and destroy welfare. Neither ever inspired in me a
> fraction of the hope I felt, listening to Obama speak last night from my
> home town. After so many years - most of my life - a sense that, whatever
> happens, reason, decency and good will are at the helm, rather than
> stupidity, fanaticism, and greed.
>
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Andrew
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