"Incremental change" is a Third Way lie.

[BrotherIvan]

64. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy.."

but because they are hard."

Here is how a president makes change happen: setting goals and pushing to achieve them. Not everyone was behind Kennedy. Many argued it was folly and a waste to even try. But the goal was reached within the timeframe he set even though he was assassinated. It was one of the great accomplishments of humankind.

The decision involved much consideration before making it public, as well as enormous human efforts and expenditures to make what became Project Apollo a reality by 1969. Only the construction of the Panama Canal in modern peacetime and the Manhattan Project in war were comparable in scope. NASA's overall human spaceflight efforts were guided by Kennedy's speech; Projects Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Gemini, and Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface.

Why can't we do great things anymore? Why do we sell ourselves so short that we think that problems have no solutions? Why do we let them lie to us? Why do we believe it?

I keep hearing that Obama couldn't have gotten a public option--which he campaigned on and won the election. The people gave him a Democratic Senate and House to enact his agenda. That's a mandate. And we're supposed to believe that three Senators stood in the way? Where was the speech where he took the case to the American people? He was getting enormous press in his first year. Where was the push where he called out members of his own party and called them liars and just doing it for the campaign cash? Where was it? He had the power and the popularity to do great things.