Weekly Address: Restoring Opportunity for All

[freshwest]

Published on Feb 1, 2014

In this week's address, the President discusses the goals he laid out in the State of the Union address to expand opportunity for all so that every American can get ahead and have a shot at creating a better life for their kids.

to cal04:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014715914

You may want to post on that OP, or stay here. It's being abused, but pampango made a good point there.

[sheshe2]

1. Great 3 minute version!

New jobs, training for said jobs, better education and FAIR PAY!

Thanks for posting it here, freshwest.

Of course cal04's is being abused in GD. There has been a feeding frenzy going on since Tuesday night. Will pop over to see. To tired to put up much of a fight tonight.

[sheshe2]

2. Give America a raise

But it was also a lens through which the rest of the speech could be heard, and it was the lens through which all of us should be evaluating the policies and direction of our country right now. In paying tribute to Barra, Boehner and Barack Obama, the president was paying tribute to social mobility, and he was correctly defining the chance to better oneself—to travel from the circumstances of one’s birth to the circumstances of one’s merit and labor—as this country’s central and sustaining promise. It’s essential to our national identity. It’s vital to our sense of honor and purpose. It’s the foundation of an optimism that seems to be fading fast. If we let “the American dream” become a storybook phrase, a quaint and saccharine anachronism, no longer broadly evident and no longer widely believed, then we’re in desperate trouble.

http://theobamadiary.com/