Looking back @ what once was...

[Sapphire Blue]

Looking back @ what once was...

William Jefferson Clinton
State of the Union 2000 - January 27, 2000


(excerpt)

At the dawn of the last century, Theodore Roosevelt said, "the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight...it should be the growing nation with a future that takes the long look ahead." So, tonight, let us take our long look ahead -- and set great goals for our nation.

To 21st century America, let us pledge these things: Every child will begin school ready to learn and graduate ready to succeed. (Applause.) Every family will be able to succeed at home and at work, and no child will be raised in poverty. (Applause.) We will meet the challenge of the aging of America. We will assure quality, affordable health care, at last, for all Americans. (Applause.)

We will make America the safest big country on Earth. (Applause.) We will pay off our national debt for the first time since 1835. (Applause.) We will bring prosperity to every American community. We will reverse the course of climate change and leave a safer, cleaner planet. America will lead the world toward shared peace and prosperity, and the far frontiers of science and technology. And we will become at last what our founders pledged us to be so long ago -- one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (Applause.)

These are great goals, worthy of a great nation. We will not reach them all this year. Not even in this decade. But we will reach them. Let us remember that the first American Revolution was not won with a single shot; the continent was not settled in a single year. The lesson of our history -- and the lesson of the last seven years -- is that great goals are reached step by step, always building on our progress, always gaining ground.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/bc42/speeches/sud00wjc.htm


Audio of President Bill Clinton's 2000 State of the Union Address: http://www.archive.org/stream/SOTU_2000 http://www.archive.org/details/SOTU_2000

Looking at what is...





And looking at what might be...

[AX10]

1. K&R

[Sapphire Blue]

2. a kick... for what might be

:kick:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. Kicked and REc. some other things that might be:

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Those are some things that ARE.

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow..." My parents said that his speech

today at Bentson's funeral at our old church in Houston was excellent, as usual. God, how I miss the sanity and the intelligence and the compassion and the wit of Clinton!

[Sapphire Blue]

6. What might be will "... soon be here, It'll be, better than before."

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. I used to believe that so fervently! I hadn't in my wildest dreams

imagined what damage this maladministration could wreak. Wake me up from this nightmare, already!

[Sapphire Blue]

8. Look again @ what might be... and keep believing!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. and just keep clicking those ruby-red shoes together

we are the majority and a good witch once told me that we ALWAYS had the power to end a nightmare... it's our GIs who are saying, "there's no place like home" "there's no place like home" "there's no place like home"

[Sapphire Blue]

13. ... and, as Dr. Dean says, "You have the power!"

[Czolgosz]

9. K & R

[wisteria]

11. Nice, except you should have included Kerry in the Good mix. n/t

[Javaman]

12. I think of what might have been, it breaks my heart...

Just 6 short years ago. Oh how I miss Bill. Al please run.

When the nation is lead by a paper pusher*, we produce nothing but paper tigers.

[Sapphire Blue]

14. Have hope; look to the future & what might yet be.

[Javaman]

15. I live with hope for November. nt

[janx]

16. SWEET!

K&R

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. And Mr. "One finger salute" ** can't hold a candle to any of the above.

He isn't even fit to shine their shoes. I so miss President Clinton. :-(

[Coexist]

18. nice job.

very uplifting!

[LeftCoast]

19. Locking per author request

:hi: