Different Kinds of Ship of State :: A Few Shiny Pebbles

In 2004, historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., wrote in the Los Angeles Times about presidential vision in times of crisis. He quoted FDR: “All our great presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified."

I believe that this is one of those times. We are going to elect a new president in 2008, and that means we are going to elect a specific future for America and for the world. This coming election and its aftermath will be studied for generations to come with the intensity that the decade before World War II and the war itself commands. Just as with the 1930s and 1940s, our future promises to get a great deal worse before it gets better. How much worse, and for how long, will be determined by our votes. It would help if we tried to get it right.



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