When JFK made his one inaugural address, the Cold War was at its height. He didn't fudge the moment, and instead let Americans and the world know the gravity of the threat of mutual global nuclear annhilation by describing the situation thusly as " both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war."
President Obama had the chance to lay the current even worse crisis out with equal clarity. He blew it, instead portraying the climate change crisis as simply an opportunity for the US to gain or lose the leadership in a new technological marketplace.
On education, he also narrowly focussed on schools as job training centers, instead of as transmitters of culture, saying: "...a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers."
What about training our artists, dancers, poets, historians, writers, musicians and philosophers?...
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