Reply #34: What children are lacking is a REASON to hope. Adults too.

[tomreedtoon]

If there is something to hope for, who's expressing it? Certainly not the Democrats, with bland slogans like "we can do better." Dean, certainly the most enthusiastic of the bunch, doesn't sound all that hopeful either.

Listen, if you can find it, to Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural speech. His diction may be too elegant for this time, but his spirit still comes through. He envisioned an America rising from the depths of depression.

Whenever someone mentions a front-running Democratic Presidential candidate, like Hillary Clinton or Dean or Obama, have you heard anything sounding like hope from them? I mean, beyond the hope that they aren't Republican clones? Have you heard them project a vision of a future of peace, prosperity and advancement that sounds like they believe in it themselves? I haven't, and it isn't the filtering of the Pre$$titutes, either.

'Cause, folks, if you can't imagine such a future and picture it in vivid terms, you can't work for it. And all those kids, and adults, have no reason to work for it either.