Obama's Lincoln Memorial speech was in commemoration of a political event where organizers kept elected officials away from the platform. It was fine on history
...we would do well to recall that day itself also belonged to those ordinary people whose names never appeared in the history books, never got on TV. Many had gone to segregated schools and sat at segregated lunch counters. They lived in towns where they couldn't vote and cities where their votes didn't matter. They were couples in love who couldn't marry, soldiers who fought for freedom abroad that they found denied to them at home. They had seen loved ones beaten, and children fire-hosed, and they had every reason to lash out in anger, or resign themselves to a bitter fate.He concluded with the usual dream world rhetoric: work hard and you'll succeed, as we are a country full of good people, like "that successful businessman who doesn't have to but pays his workers a fair wage and then offers a shot to a man, maybe an ex-con who is down on his luck..."
And this kind of thing is so routine now as to be considered a fine standard—
That tireless teacher who gets to class early and stays late and dips into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes that every child is her charge -- she's marching.Teachers "dipping" into the pocket—and fundraising, and corporate sponsorship— it's merely expected that education should be financed this way.
And after all, the message machine is happy enough with assuming a single mother needing to work three jobs is "uniquely American."
After noting the current president's fine rhetoric for a day, the pundits are no doubt relieved to get back to cheering on an attack against Syria, and a Grand Bargain with Obama's fine friends across the aisle.
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