I know doesn’t nearly cut the heart of everything that’s at stake in today’s election (which you should go vote in, dummy, if you already haven’t), but I think this comparison cuts to the quick of today’s choice:
From Barack Obama’s Election Night Speech, 11/4/08:
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctors bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 10/23/10:
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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