No president before Barack Obama has been so right and so wrong.When in his State of the Union speech Mr. Obama said, "This is our generation's Sputnik moment," citing the emergence of global competition from the likes of China and India, he was right. Minutes later he proposed to cover the country with high-speed rail and companies making solar shingles.High-speed rail and solar shingles? If that's the president's idea of meeting our Sputnik moment, then Houston, we have a problem.About halfway into the speech, I began to wonder: What is John Boehner thinking?...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/27/a_presidency_to_nowhere_249470.html
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