Political line of the year

by | Jan 7, 2008


Yeah, yeah, we’re a week in.  But Obama’s surgical rebuttal today of Hillary’s ‘false hopes’ line is going to take some beating:

“I have been teased and even derided for using the word ‘hope’.  But we are America. We don’t need leaders telling us what we cannot do. We need leaders who can inspire us to achieve things. Did you hear JFK saying: ‘You know this moon thing, it looks too far’?”

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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