Obama in Springfield: How Far We’ve Fallen
via PJ Media
“President Obama will visit Springfield, IL, on Wednesday, no doubt a trip heavy with nostalgia for the man who announced his candidacy for president exactly 9 years ago on February 10, 2007.
At that time, Barack Obama spoke before thousands of supporters in the Springfield town square. Wednesday’s speech will be given before the Illinois legislature. While the distance in space between the two venues is relatively small, it is the distance in how far we’ve fallen as a nation that has become painfully clear since that crisp, cold day so many years ago.
Illinois is a state in crisis. Radical change is needed to turn the state’s fiscal and economic fortunes around. But, as Diana Sroka Rickert points out in the Chicago Tribune, that’s not going to happen as long as the cabal of career politicians and the special interests they represent hold the state government in thrall.”
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