But they made things better.

[elisi]

Obama’s Critique of Sanders

This is slightly mis-labelled. The president was not attacking Sanders’ ideology of fairness. But he was clearly separating himself from Sanders’ dogmatic insistence on revolutionary transformation.

And it just got to me. I dunno. Just that note of hope, of acknowledging the progress... It got to me.

Comments

[owlboy]

First/most upvoted comment on the article says everything that needs to be said

[lynnenne]

Thanks for sharing that. It reminds me of a lot of the "change management" issues that my company is dealing with right now. Change is slow, and incremental, and frustrating, but when I look at where we are now compared to a year ago, I can see so much progress - and it makes me proud of everything we've accomplished. We couldn't have done that if we hadn't listened to, and gotten buy-in from, other departments outside our own.

[yourlibrarian]

I wanted to start by opening your eyes to the moment you are in. If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born and you did not know ahead of time who you were going to be, what nationality, or gender, what race — whether you would be rich, poor, gay or straight, what faith you would be born into — you would not choose 100 years ago. You would not choose the 1950s, the 1960s, or the 1970s. You would choose right now.

Truth.