Theodore C. Sorensen, who put on paper some of the finest words John F. Kennedy ever wrote, has written an acceptance speech for next year’s Democratic presidential nominee.
In this campaign, I will make no promises I cannot fulfill, pledge no spending we cannot afford, offer no posts to cronies you cannot trust, and propose no foreign commitment we should not keep. I will not shrink from opposing any party faction, any special interest group, or any major donor whose demands are contrary to the national interest. Nor will I shrink from calling myself a liberal, in the same sense that Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, John and Robert Kennedy, and Harry Truman were liberals—liberals who proved that government is not a necessary evil, but rather the best means of creating a healthier, more educated, and more prosperous America.
It gets even better.
And our best blogging buddy Functional Ambivalent has written his view on last week’s Supreme Court decision on race and schools. (Tom lives in Louisville, one of the two school districts in the case.)
In the middle ground, where families like mine just try to muddle through the day, I wish everyone would stop worrying about the Supreme Court and get back to worrying about stuff that matters. This is one of those issues that’s going to involve lots of swings of the pendulum. Maintaining a program that was developed a long time ago for a set of circumstances that no longer exist would have been ridiculous, so the court moved us forward into territory that is by definition unknown.