In this editorial published in the NY Times, conservative columnist David Brooks discusses Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama.
Kennedy went on to talk about the 1960s. But he didn’t talk much about the late ’60s, when Bill and Hillary came to political activism. He talked about the early ’60s, and the idealism of the generation that had seen World War II, the idealism of the generation that marched in jackets and ties, the idealism of a generation whose activism was relatively unmarked by drug use and self-indulgence…
And in the students’ rapture for Kennedy’s message, you began to see the folding over of generations, the service generation of John and Robert Kennedy united with the service generation of the One Campaign. The grandparents and children united against the parents…
The respect for institutions that was prevalent during the early ’60s is prevalent with the young again today. The earnest industriousness that was common then is back today. The awareness that we are not self-made individualists, free to be you and me, but emerge as parts of networks, webs and communities - that awareness is back again today.
02-11-2008 |
8 Comments »Scott Rasmussen of the polling organization Rasmussen Reports recently wrote a really fascinating commentary entitled “The United States Needs a Confirming Election“. He says:
The United States is in dire need of an election where somebody wins big, an election that confirms someone with a real majority, and an election that provides the nation with some sense of a prevailing public perspective. Big Victories in Presidential elections don’t make everyone happy, but they do help to unify the nation and improve the health of our political system.
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01-07-2008 |
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