Our Sputnik Moment: Previewing State of Union
Tonight President Obama will attempt to reawaken the spirit of JFK and the New Frontier. In a clarion call to move forward through the vitriolic partisanship, he will challenge us to seize the day and reach for the stars.
Though the moon will not be his destination, the can-do attitude of JFK and the optimism of Ronald Reagan will be employed to motivate us past the petty divides of politics and towards meeting the economic, educational, environmental challenges coming particularly from China.
With jobs being job one, he will invite us to join together in an America that will solve our energy dependence on oil from the Middle East with green renewable energy. He will promise more jobs in a greener world, with cleaner and healthier air and water. He will tell us that we can only meet the challenges of greatness if we create and sustain educational policies that will allow us to compete.
He will call upon a spirit of real patriotism that says Yes to our future and tells us that our best days are still in the future--a future we can achieve only if we work together to make it happen.
He will tell us that this is indeed our Sputnik moment and ask us if we will shrink from the challenge or engage it with confidence and vigor.
©2011 Jonathan Dobrer
www.Dobrer.com
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