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In reply to the discussion: "Obama and the End of Greatness" [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)15. Hey, the Age of America is over...
We no longer have any moral, technical, or even business leadership. What we have left is a huge pot of cash in private hands and hundreds of military bases. Everything else is slowly declining and the Europeans and Chinese are drooling over the pieces.
As citizens, we don't even have an American Dream we can take seriously. Kennedy and Reagan were the only two Presidents in my lifetime who spoke seriously of such a dream, but someone killed Kennedy and Reagan's turned out to a hollow nightmare.
I doubt we'll see a President who spends less time on Ebola or Iraq than on the water problems in the Southwest. We were once the Can Do country, but now we're the Can't Afford It one.
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Oops, this is the clip I meant to post, but they're both good so I'll leave that earlier one.
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#5
The minute a President actually seems to be bringing change, Americans slam the brakes
Algernon Moncrieff
Oct 2014
#9
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask "How can I make a buck off it?" nt
bemildred
Oct 2014
#39
Correction: it's not a short story, and it's written by (not about) a Clinton staffer.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#22
Story means fiction. This is a tendentious essay, written by an interested party. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#25
This Esquire article does a great job describing how bollixed up we are
BeyondGeography
Oct 2014
#29