Thanks SO MUCH for posting this piece, Peter!!! I’m head over heels in love with Barak Obama because he’s so clear when he’s articulating distinctions. And this one is crucial. The only way out of the mess we’ve gotten into over the last 35 years is to get back to bottom-up democracy.
Now that we have this wonderful communication mechanism, the internet, we can and MUST add in full transparency … and civil conversation about the issues amongst all of us.
I grew up in Washington, DC, right in the middle of the government. Today, I live right down the road from where this speech was made (I’m in southern Oregon now). Every morning for the last 6 months, I’ve thanked God that I have lived long enough to see the possibility of someone like this wonderful human being becoming the leader of our nation.
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