Great analysis, David. So

Ramona — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:18:54 +0000

Great analysis, David. So much good stuff in there it's hard to pull out the one thing that stands out for me, but I grabbed this one as the essence of the Republican failures:

So committed were the speakers in Tampa to a politics that privileged equality of opportunity over equality of outcomes that they entirely failed to grasp the extent to which the “outcomes” produced by the unbridled pursuit of “opportunity” in the years since Ronald Reagan abandoned the war on poverty are now so unequal that only public policy to level the playing field can make the competition in any way fair for the next generation of Americans.

And, of course, your last lines are especially compelling, at least to me:

Whatever else we need in this country right now, we certainly need Barack Obama back in the White House and liberal Democrats back in control of both Houses of Congress – and we have just two months left to make sure that they are.

The opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities also contain another contrast: one between “the spring of hope” and the “winter of despair.” As November 6^th approaches, it is time once more to pick a season. We need to pick wisely and we need to pick well.

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Great analysis, David. So