Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

A New Age?

E.J. Dionne Jr. – Culture Wars? How 2004. – washingtonpost.com
The era of the religious right is over. Even absent the rise of urgent new problems, Americans had already reached a point of exhaustion with a religious style of politics that was dogmatic, partisan and ideological.

I certainly hope so.

It would be especially good if this new era also includes a flourishing of American technological and scientific thought. Perhaps something on the order of what began during the 1960s during Kennedy’s presidency.

I’d like to hear President Obama give a speech similar to the one Kennedy gave in 1961, only instead of launching a race to the moon it would signal the beginning of the end of our dependence on polluting energy sources.

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of completely ending our reliance on fossil fuels.”

Now that would be thrilling.