The primary process is winnowing the list of candidates nicely, and it looks like we're going to have the presidential race many of us had hoped for, Ronald Reagan vs. John F. Kennedy:
I remember another such time, in the 1960s, when I came to the Senate at the age of 30. We had a new president who inspired the nation, especially the young, to seek a new frontier. Those inspired young people marched, sat in at lunch counters, protested the war in Vietnam and served honorably in that war even when they opposed it.
They realized that when they asked what they could do for their country, they could change the world.
That was Teddy Kennedy, of course, endorsing Barack Obama for president. Republicans have been falling all over themselves to invoke Reagan, but the politician who most recently praised him was . . . Barack Obama.
Yeah, change. The future.
