There were lots of what they call “takeaways” in the speech. That’s the way that crack speechwriters craft them and the way crack correspondents report them. Most of those lines just roll over the rest of us. But there was one, last night, that jumped out at you. As Government Executive reports, at one point the president said:
“We need to set our sights higher than just making sure government doesn’t screw things up.”
One wonders just how many millions of Americans would settle for that. And appreciate being informed when Washington gets there.
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